By Jordan Hall 11th February 2011
Valentine's Day is coming around once again. Last time this year we mentioned how many people were taking their Valentine's shopping online. This year seems no different, with many of our e-commerce websites featuring new Valentine's Day sections in preparation for the big day, this coming Monday. Saint Valentine's Day, commonly shortened to Valentine's Day, is an annual commemoration held on February 14 celebrating love and affection between in...
Rapid Web Services is proud to announce to recent launch of the brand new Sporting Kicks e-commerce site. Sporting Kicks sell alternative football t-shirts and souvenirs. Although Sporting Kicks have been in business for many years, they came to Rapid Web Services for a fully new e-commerce website and redesign. We took their existing e-commerce solution and converted it to a completely new and bespoke e-commerce system. To get to this ...
By Jordan Hall 29th November 2010
According to a recent BBC article, today is set to become the biggest sales day for online retailers and e-commerce website. It is being called 'Mega Monday', and possibly resembles the Black Friday shopping phenomenon of the general retail world. Monday is expected to be the busiest online shopping day of the year, as consumers get ready for Christmas. Tens of thousands of pounds are expected to be spent online every minute throughout the day, ...
By Jordan Hall 2nd July 2010
Wait... hold on. Firstly, what are MyISAM and InnoDB? MyISAM and InnoDB are the two commonly used MySQL engines for database tables. MyISAM is the default database engine for new tables created in MySQL 4 and 5. So, why would I want to use one over the other? Good question. Perhaps it is best answered by going through the differences between the two database engines. InnoDB is a more modern database engine than MyISAM, so some could say MyIS...
By Jordan Hall 28th May 2010
HTML 5 introduces several new tags which focus of defining the content of a page in a machine readable fashion. In today's websites, if a computer program attempts to pick out a particular part of a page, such as the main article, the sidebar or the top navigation, it would have difficulty. This is because every website structures its HTML differently, and most modern websites use <p>, <div> and <span> tags to surround their co...
By Jordan Hall 18th May 2010
"The Nudge lets you exchange and manage brief reviews with people you know on everything that’s happening in your City, and beyond. Let your starting point in choosing anything (from a hotel in San Francisco or a restaurant in London, to a new book or a concert in New York) be the reviews of people you know, whose opinion you trust. The Nudge is also launching weekly City Editions for London and New York. These can be accessed through the ...
By Jordan Hall 29th April 2010
Rapid Web Services is pleased to announce the recent redesign of a long term client's website, Body Sculpt UK. The new web design of Body Sculpt UK features an entirely custom web design, templating and integration into both existing and brand new textual content. The new website design also features the use of a dynamic blog system to go alongside the static content of the main site. Links also exist to various social networking and social me...
By Jordan Hall 28th April 2010
I previously posted on how Nokia open-sourced the Symbian mobile operating system and the advantages this will bring to mobile web developers. Nokia has now released their first mobile device based on the open-source version of Symbian, the Nokia N8 phone. It is the first version of the software since the Symbian foundation announced that it had made its code open source in February. The Foundation - which includes Nokia, Motorola and Samsung am...
By Jordan Hall 22nd April 2010
A recent automated update to McAfee Anti-virus software caused the software to mistaken detect a key Windows system program as malicious and move it out of its proper location to a McAfee anti-virus quarantine. Due to the critical nature of the quarantined system program, 'svchost.com', affected computers failed to start correctly and were sent into a rebooting loop. According to Microsoft, the affected file 'is a generic host process name for ...
By Jordan Hall 21st April 2010
The Moira Fund, a grant making charity, has been established in memory of Moira Jones, ... Following her death, family, friends and colleagues of Moira wished to establish a fund in her memory that would support others who found themselves bereaved through violent death at the hands of another. Rapid Web Services have worked with the Moira Fund to produce a custom web design built upon the well established, open-source blogging platform, WordPr...
By Jordan Hall 20th April 2010
At Rapid Web Services, we are very happy to announce the launch of the Grinnall Cars website! Grinnall Cars manufactures specialised sports cars, trikes and kit cars, from the Scorpion III, IV to the BMW 1200CL. I would be lying if I said they did not look like tempting purchases! For Grinnall Cars, Rapid Web Services put together a custom web design which was then integrated into a custom developed website. Each product featured on the Grin...
By Jordan Hall 19th April 2010
Here at the Rapid Web Services offices, we all like cake. Rightly so as well, because cake is fantastic. On a related note, we're deliciously happy to announce the launch of the 'Love at First Bite Cakes' website. Here's a quick snippet from the website describing the personal history of Love at First Bite Cakes. A lot of people ask me if I’ve been to college to learn my skills, but my training was more traditional… I’ve learnt them throu...