Archive for the 'Web Development' Category
Mobile Marketing, Web Development, Web Consultancy, Widget Marketing - It’s been a busy few months
We’ve been deep in client projects over the past few months, so here’s a quick rundown on some of the things we have been up to.
Mobile Marketing : Online solution for a retail customer to enable them to easily communicate with their customers via an opt-in text messages for products and services. Features included message personalisation, campaign maintenance and delivery statistics. We’re really pleased with this work.
Web Consultancy : Helped a major Irish Travel Industry organisation in developing theit online marketing strategy including more than a hat tip to a stragetic use for all things social media and web 2.0.
Project Management and System Specification : Project Management for a major overhaul of an online booking engine and website, along with the specification of widget based affiliate system.
Viral Marketing Tools : We are just finishing up a project with a financial institution that involves widget development (both javascript and flash) and embed capability on websites, blogs and social network sites such as facebook.
Joomla Development : We have also recently completed a major Joomla implementation, which included the development of new modules and components for easier client maintenance, data extraction and customer support.
Wordpress Development : In tandem with all of these, we have been kicking along with some of our core web development skills in developing Wordpress based sites, and designing bespoke plugin features where necessary.
We’re looking forward to a bit of a break over the next few weeks…
Getting old mobile Phones for SMS marketing Project - difficult
We’re currently working on a web development project that will allow a customer to run a highly targeted SMS marketing campaign.
Thing is, we’re trying to gather some old, SIM free mobile phones together to do some serious testing. Those we have asked, have pretty much already donated their old models to the the very worthy Jack and Jill Childrens Foundation.
However, iff you have a mobile lying around - we will pay for postage and packing, and will in turn donate to the foundation in about 3 weeks time - on project go live. Drop an email to kevin[at]electricmill.com
Why not buy a few SIM free phones? I may have to, but would prefer not to; these will be used for a week or so, and no more.
Resolution of a CSS styling issue running PHP5 on IIS
A small piece of development work that we completed for a client in December 2007 threw up an unexpected problem.
We developed a small PHP based application to enable staff to easily import and validate data from a Lotus Notes system through an administration console, while at the same time enabling the public to easily search and view the same data.
Things were slightly complicated by the fact that the application was to seamlessly integrate with an existing ASP.Net CMS application - particularly with regard to the overall look and feel. the illusion to be created was of one system.
It would not be the first time that PHP has been asked to co-exist on an IIS server. We did our research, developed the system, did test installations on a QA box - and were happy with the upgrade approach that should be taken on the live implementation.
The upgrade of the live system went smoothly as planned - but then something cropped up which we didn’t expect. The style sheets which we had copied from the main CMS system (in order that the new application would appear to be pretty seamless) was refusing to load properly in all browsers - Firefox, IE and Safari.
Loading the CSS file directly into the address bar of the browser, and then looking at the page info of the file, we soon found what the problem was. The stylesheet was being incorrectly identified as text/html rather than text/css.
Searching for a fix to the issue (which seems to be an IIS one) didn’t turn up anything which we could used. We tried a few things, took on board some suggestions, but nothing worked - we still had the same problem.
In the end though, the fix was quite simple. We added the following line to be the first line in the offending style sheet.
<?php header(’Content-Type: text/css’); ?>
problem solved.
Mobile Marketing, Web Development, Web Consultancy, Widget Marketing - It’s been a busy few months
We’ve been deep in client projects over the past few months, so here’s a quick rundown on some of the things we have been up to.
Mobile Marketing : Online solution for a retail customer to enable them to easily communicate with their customers via an opt-in text messages for products and services. Features included message personalisation, campaign maintenance and delivery statistics. We’re really pleased with this work.
Web Consultancy : Helped a major Irish Travel Industry organisation in developing theit online marketing strategy including more than a hat tip to a stragetic use for all things social media and web 2.0.
Project Management and System Specification : Project Management for a major overhaul of an online booking engine and website, along with the specification of widget based affiliate system.
Viral Marketing Tools : We are just finishing up a project with a financial institution that involves widget development (both javascript and flash) and embed capability on websites, blogs and social network sites such as facebook.
Joomla Development : We have also recently completed a major Joomla implementation, which included the development of new modules and components for easier client maintenance, data extraction and customer support.
Wordpress Development : In tandem with all of these, we have been kicking along with some of our core web development skills in developing Wordpress based sites, and designing bespoke plugin features where necessary.
We’re looking forward to a bit of a break over the next few weeks…
Getting old mobile Phones for SMS marketing Project - difficult
We’re currently working on a web development project that will allow a customer to run a highly targeted SMS marketing campaign.
Thing is, we’re trying to gather some old, SIM free mobile phones together to do some serious testing. Those we have asked, have pretty much already donated their old models to the the very worthy Jack and Jill Childrens Foundation.
However, iff you have a mobile lying around - we will pay for postage and packing, and will in turn donate to the foundation in about 3 weeks time - on project go live. Drop an email to kevin[at]electricmill.com
Why not buy a few SIM free phones? I may have to, but would prefer not to; these will be used for a week or so, and no more.
Resolution of a CSS styling issue running PHP5 on IIS
A small piece of development work that we completed for a client in December 2007 threw up an unexpected problem.
We developed a small PHP based application to enable staff to easily import and validate data from a Lotus Notes system through an administration console, while at the same time enabling the public to easily search and view the same data.
Things were slightly complicated by the fact that the application was to seamlessly integrate with an existing ASP.Net CMS application - particularly with regard to the overall look and feel. the illusion to be created was of one system.
It would not be the first time that PHP has been asked to co-exist on an IIS server. We did our research, developed the system, did test installations on a QA box - and were happy with the upgrade approach that should be taken on the live implementation.
The upgrade of the live system went smoothly as planned - but then something cropped up which we didn’t expect. The style sheets which we had copied from the main CMS system (in order that the new application would appear to be pretty seamless) was refusing to load properly in all browsers - Firefox, IE and Safari.
Loading the CSS file directly into the address bar of the browser, and then looking at the page info of the file, we soon found what the problem was. The stylesheet was being incorrectly identified as text/html rather than text/css.
Searching for a fix to the issue (which seems to be an IIS one) didn’t turn up anything which we could used. We tried a few things, took on board some suggestions, but nothing worked - we still had the same problem.
In the end though, the fix was quite simple. We added the following line to be the first line in the offending style sheet.
<?php header(’Content-Type: text/css’); ?>
problem solved.
