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14
Apr

Dixons limited stock ? just coincidence or marketing purpose ?

Recently, I found a special offer for refurbished Samsung N150 laptop on Dixon website. Normally, this laptop is selling around £200-£220 and they sell it for £120 only. Although these Dixon refurbished latops are those returned by customer within 14 days return, it has been checked and refurbished with 12 months warranty like the new one. Also, considering 40% discount from normal price, it's certainly a bargain. I bought one at 3am morning and went to sleep. After I woke up at 10am, I checked the website, it was all gone.

22
Dec

Drupal: Publish comments in bulk with Views Bulk Operations (VBO)

Because of SPAMS, you may prefer to read the comment posts first before they are published. 

By default, drupal VBO does not have a function to bulk publish comments. It means you have to publish one by one after you click "edit". It is a real pain if you have many comments to publish. (see picture below). 

 

8
Nov

Things to consider when you choose a web hosting company

Recently, I help a charity to find a web hosting company for the new website I designed for them. 

Because it's a charity, I try to look for the cheapest possible hosting package. At the end, my intention for saving some money for them becomes a nightmare,but I learned a lot and decide to write something here. 

If your website runs on drupal, it demands a reasonable hardware resource and technology. Here are several things you must check with your webhosting providers before you commit

 

5
Nov

Designing a USER-FOCUSED homepage for your web

This short video from Think Vitamin Membership  is about how to design a homepage with FOCUS. How to make sure customers understand the "core advantage" of your products without distracting by other things ?

The common approach is to put as much info / links on the homepage with the hope that users click the links and learn more about the products. Eventually, users would be interested in the products, sign up or buy the application.

30
Aug

Using tab in form / node in drupal

Sometimes, you may have too much information you want to display in a page. You may use tab(s) to seperate the fields so that users don't need to scroll down to read the information

http://drupal.org/project/tabs

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For tabs in form, you go to content type -> manage fields -> configure -> choose tab

 

 

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26
Aug

Sales tips from a sales director

Today, I got a customer who is the Sales Director of a very big printing company. I see "sales" as a very crucial part of business just like the strikers in a football team that bring you the victory. While he was waiting for his phone to get a software upgrade in my shop. I asked him some questions about sales  and he gave me some useful tips on his sales success.

23
Jul

PR / Marketing tricks learned from a customer

Today, I learned a lot about PR / Marketing knowledge from a customer who works as a writer in a translation company. He used to work in Edinburgh, but he decided to move to london after his girlfriend moved here. You could guess his boss would just let him go and hire a new guy to replace him. But not, he got an offer to work from home which a lot of people would love to. I was very curious why his boss would do that and I learned why after I understood more about his job.

15
Jun

Logos gone terribly wrong!

ant to establish a company?, be careful how you design your Company Logo.... 

15
Jun

Not popular, but very useful modules for drupal admin / webmaster

Here are some very useful modules which I found they are very useful. It helps me a lot to organise the admin / user pages in drupal

 

  1. Vertical tabs (http://drupal.org/project/vertical_tabs)

    This module provides the following features:

29
Apr

Joomla Vs Drupal - my post on ukbusinessforum

 

I used both Joomla and drupal...and actually, I found drupal easier to learn and use than joomla because I love to change the things..

 

with joomla, I found modules are ready to use without much need to change the theme & layout. Good for you if you are not a demanding people, but if u want to change theme / code, u will feel the headaches.

 

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