Recent Work

So, what's going on with those search engine thingummies? Why exactly are they taking so long to acknowledge new sites with lots of links at the moment?

Well, for no reason but the obvious one, here are some recently completed websites!

Exterior Eco Solutions Ltd

Exterior Eco Solutions Ltd are a local family run business specialising in:

• double glazing
• fascias, soffits and guttering
  
• replacement glass
• smart glass
• conservatories / orangeries
• composite doors
• brickwork repointing 
• exterior wall coatings
• and roof coatings

Across the Fylde Coast and beyond, including Blackpool, Poulton-le-Fylde, Thornton-Cleveleys, Fleetwood and Knott-End.

L & L Travel

L & L Travel is a small family business offering a friendly, premium minibus hire service to the Fylde Coast and Over Wyre. 

Great for:

• airport transfers
• nights out / events
• sports / races day
• weddings
  
• stag / hen do minibus
  
• and shopping trips
  

Give them a call if you live in Fleetwood, Cleveleys, Thornton, Poulton-le-Fylde, Knott End-on-Sea, Blackpool, Lytham, St Annes, Kirkham or Wesham.

 

Cellfab Ltd

Cellfab Ltd offer a wide range of ready made gates for residential driveways and gardens delivered to your door throughout the UK.

They also supply and install bespoke gates locally, including:

• aluminium gates
• composite gates
• timber infill gates
• wrought iron gates
• and automated gates

Based in the Lancashire area, their bespoke gates service is available throughout Lancashire and the wider North West.

Customer Focus (Hearing Aids, Cumbria)

St John's Hearing Aid Centre is a family run business of more than 40 years, providing a high quality, personalised service to the hard of hearing in Cumbria and beyond.

Their aim is to ensure the most suitable solution and best possible outcomes for their clients.They are experienced in all areas of hearing care and treat every case individually.

Services

Their hearing services include:

• Hearing Aids using modern, digital technology.
• Free Hearing Tests using the latest diagnostic equipment.
• Free Home Consultations to help find a solution for you.
• Gentle Ear Wax Removal via microsuction or irrigation.
• Servicing and Repairs including a postal battery service.

Cumbria, Lothians and Beyond

From their branches in Grange-over-Sands and Edinburgh, they are ideally placed to serve Cumbria, the Lothians and Fife.

Customer Focus (Mobility Scooters, Cumbria)

Cumbria Mobility offer a large range of mobility equipment products from the leading brands in the UK. They work directly with those affected with mobility and disability issues, along with care industry professionals.

They do not sell their products online as they believe everyone has specific needs and are driven to providing a product fit for a specific person's needs.

Mobility Services

Their mobility services include:

• Powered Wheelchairs 
• Mobility Scooters
• Manual Wheelchairs
• Pressure and Posture Care
• Rise Recline Lift Chairs
• Stair Lifts
• Daily Living Aids
• Walking Aids
• Servicing and Repairs
• Insurance

Motability

Cumbria Mobility also offer the Motability scheme, a worry-free way of leasing a scooter or power chair. The scheme includes insurance, breakdown recovery and even repairs and servicing. This allows the scheme members to enjoy independence whilst protecting you from unexpected costs.

Throughout Cumbria and Beyond

Cumbria Mobility work throughout Cumbria and much of Lancashire, Dumfries and Galloway. They have showrooms in Carlisle and Workington. If you cant make it to a showroom they offer free, no obligation home assessments.

Blogger doesn't recognise the word 'blog'?

So, whilst writing a blog article (Can anyone use a mobility scooter?) for a client, we discovered something quite amusing.|

For some unknown reason, Blogger doesn't recognise the word 'blog' in its spell-check!

Intentional or a slight oversight on their part? Does anyone know?

Do you have any better examples of words not being recognised? Post them below and we'll give a free website* to the best comment.

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Business Website Design, Preston, Lancashire

Looking for a reliable web developer local to the Preston area? EasierThan Website Design have a number of satisfied clients based in Preston and the wider Lancashire area.

With over 15 years experience, we offer reasonably priced web design with an emphasis on functionality, usability and most importantly, making sure the site achieves your goals.

Whether you're looking for business website design, an eBay or eCommerce shop or support for an existing third party website, we'll work hard to make the internet work for you!

All of our web design solutions include domain name registration, hosting and email addresses as standard, all charged for at a favourable annual rate.

Example Websites

Here are a few examples of websites created for Preston based businesses:

Please visit our website for more examples of our website design in Preston and surrounding areas. 

Preston and Beyond

EasierThan Website Design provide web design and support to businesses throughout the Preston area, including Ashton-on-Ribble, Bamber Bridge, Chorley, Fulwood, Ingol, Lea, Leyland, Longridge, Longton, Lostock Hall, Penwortham, Preston, Ribbleton and Walton-le-Dale.

Code Tip #3 - Classic ASP Image Resizer (with options for cropping, padding, colouring and saving)

Like many other developers we're very comfortable using classic ASP and on the whole it does everything we need.

We know we should start moving across to VB.Net, but can't see many real benefits to compensate for the required learning curve.

The Problem

We'd like to be able to quickly and easily resize images and ASP doesn't offer any native commands, whereas VB.Net does.

After scouring the internet we came across a free ASP resizer from Pieter Cooreman, developer of a Classic ASP website content management system called QuickerSite.

His solution was simple. Use an aspx page to do the work and call it from a normal asp page.

Our Solution

We tried it and it worked perfectly, but there were a couple of things we wanted it to do that Pieter's code didn't, so we adapted it to include more querystring options, annotation and instructions.

The resulting image resizer will do the following:

• Accept and convert jpeg, png, gif and bitmap files.
• Convert images at a relative size to a given width or height.
• Resize to a fixed width, either cropping or padding (with colour) the resulting image if the dimensions differ.
• Add special effects including greyscale and sepia.
• Output the resulting jpg to either the screen, a file or both.

All you need to do is call it from your ASP page with the relevant querystring values.

Instructions / Download

Download the zip file here: ClassicASPImageResizer.zip

Unzip the file to a folder on your server / local machine and run the default.asp for instructions and to see the code in action.

Credits

This solution was originally developed by Pieter Cooreman, QuickerSite (Classic ASP Website CMS). It was adapted and republished by David Barton, EasierThan Website Design.

The script is offered freely and no liability is accepted by either party for any issues arising from the downloading, installing or use of it.

If you find the script useful, backlinks and / or a beer (see original ASP Image Resizer page) would be much appreciated, but are not necessary.

Single Page Websites (Capturing Specific Searches)

There are a number of cases where single page websites are suitable for a business.

For example, where you want to target a specific Google search for a service or product or where there isn't much you need to say about your business and / or you just want the site as a reference to point potential customers to that you have gained elsewhere.

It is all depends on the number of keywords and phrases you want to appear in a Google search for. The more products or services you offer and the greater the competition in your target area, the more web pages you will need.

Specific Keyword Sites

The following three stand-alone sites are examples of capturing very specific searches with links to direct potential customers to the main website:

• Care, Nursing and Rest Home Kitchen Hire
• Construction Site Kitchen Hire
• Marquee Kitchen Hire
• Prison Kitchen Hire
• Retail / Fast Food Kiosk Hire
• Temporary School Kitchens

Holding Websites

A single page website featuring your logo, business name, address and telephone numbers can also be useful as a holding page for an email address or domain registration where you want to reserve a domain name, but aren't ready to create a website yet.