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By Ian Ryde

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Misc, Web Design, Web Hosting, Your Business, Your Website

New Video Tutorial: Customising HostPay – Part 3

The third installment of how to customise your HostPay template is now available to watch online. This video will continue on from part two and take you through the remaining steps on how to achieve a completely new-look HostPay installation.You’ll...

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By Craig Cotter

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Web Design

12 alternate ways you can use WordPress beyond the blog

Since the 3.0 release there is no question that WordPress is in all but name a full blown CMS. There are countless sites built using it, many of them using the software to power standard websites, for example spotify.com and...

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By Jenni Brown

Posted in:
Web Design, Your Website

Ways to display custom fonts on your website

Standard web fonts. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, you’ve got to admit that they’re in desperate need of an update.You can specify several different fonts in your CSS, but you run the risk of not having full control over what...

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By Matthew Telfer

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Reseller Hosting, Web Design

Optimise your website for mobile phones (& sell to your clients)

With mobile internet usage growing by 267% in 2010, mobile accessibility is becoming one of the key considerations in web design. Automatically detecting which device a user is browsing with and serving the appropriate version of the website accordingly, goMobi...

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By Jenni Brown

Posted in:
Web Design

6 easy, free and attractive ways to display photos on the web

Whether you want to set up a full-blown gallery or simply display a few holiday photos, there are numerous free ways to showcase your images on your website. Here are our top picks:1.Lightbox 2If you’re looking for an adaptable and...

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By Ian Ryde

Posted in:
Web Design

Add a sliding banner to your website

You may have noticed we recently ran a sliding banner on the Heart Internet home page promoting our iPhone/ iPad web hosting control panel. Adding this to your own site is really easy and you can literally have it live...

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By Ian Ryde

Posted in:
Web Design

10 fantastic examples of websites using WordPress for much more than just a blog

We have run a handful of blog posts WordPress over the past year covering topics such as top plug-ins and interviews with those who work within the burgeoning WordPress economy. One of the patterns we have seen has been the...

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By Ian Ryde

Posted in:
Web Design, Your Business, Your Website

Tutorial: Creating a Gradient background with a Transparent Logo

We’ve had a few requests from our reseller hosting customers wanting to know how they can incorporate their own logo into a HostPay installation that uses a gradient as a background image.I’ve created a tutorial to show you how easy...

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By Matthew Telfer

Posted in:
Web Design, Your Website

18 great resources for Christmas

Christmas is only 8 weeks away which means you should be well on your way to having your website ready to target those researching and hunting for Christmas gifts online. With more people than ever expected to do their Christmas...

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By Ian Ryde

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Heart Internet, Reseller Hosting, Web Design, Web Hosting, Your Business

New – 2nd "Premium" HostPay Template Released

We have just released a brand new HostPay template which is now available to all our reseller hosting customers completely free of charge. No design skills? No problem, our latest template is our most modifiable to date, you can tailor...

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