By Jordan Hall 5th September 2011
Several of us in the Rapid Web Services office are into some quite geeky hobbies, myself especially. Rapid Web Services is proud to announce the recent launch of Something Geeky, a brand new e-commerce website which sells geek t-shirts and other general geeky products. This e-commerce website is based on our custom in-house e-commerce system, which allows our clients to administrate their products and site options via a secure, custom and b...
By Jordan Hall 31st August 2011
We're very happy to announce to recent launch of Banky T-shirts.org, a website that sells t-shirts from the graphic artist Banksy, and donates £1 of each Banksy t-shirt to a charity of your choice! This website uses our in-house e-commerce system to power the online e-commerce shopping experience and the Wordpress blogging system to power the Banksy News section. This Banksy t-shirt website is a great example of how our in-house e-commerce sys...
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 7th April 2010
WordPress, the super popular open-source content management and blogging software has recently gone into beta. Version 3 of WordPress looks to bring many new features to the system including a revamped administration system and the ability to deploy a network of WordPress powered blogs simultaneously on the same domain in either seperate directories or subdomains. WordPress 3.0 Beta 1 also comes with a new default blog them called Twenty Ten whi...
By Jordan Hall 8th February 2010
WordPress, possibly the most popular blogging software out there, is set to heavily open source the design of its user interface this year. WordPress is an open source blogging solution written in PHP and powered by a MySQL database backend. Code wise, it is entirely open source and licensed in entirety under the GNU General Public License (version 2), and as of typing this, it is used by over 200 million websites worldwide. Design in WordP...