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Choosing An Online Shopping Cart Why We Use Magento (Online Shopping Cart) If you are looking for an online shopping cart solution for your website, Magento will make for an affordable customisable eCommerce platform that will handle many products with a variety of options. Magento has a solid infrastructure that can be extended to suit your business, including customised templates with your brand throughout. Whether you are a small, medium or large organisation based in London or beyond, Magento is developed to be scalable to your company and optimised for...

Work experience should not be about making tea and getting coffee, it should be fun! What happens when you have a London lad with three web designers in the office while the boss is away on holiday? We had Edward visit for work experience a few weeks ago and we tasked him with creating a promo video for webdezign. Edward was no stranger to the art of movie making, having just created an advert for ‘the box’ at his school; that is however a completely different story… We decided to give...

I’m writing this quite excitedly, I’ve had an idea and I think it will turn into a brilliant series of blogs! So surely it won’t… Anyway, I’ve decided to try and track down some of the web designers and web developers we have had at Webdezign over the years I’ve been here. If you’ve read our about us page you may have seen we’ve had 39 people from 18 countries come through the doors. In this new series I will try and locate some of these people and see what they are up to these days...

Nowadays, there are countless websites out there! Some websites clearly stand out and attract more and more visitors every day. What you may not know is that many of those are utilising a WordPress gallery function. What about your site ?  Do you want your site to be attractive, impressive and modern ? Do you want it to stand out from the crowd and promote your business more effectively ? If the answer is yes, then you should upload a Gallery on it that showcases your work and that persuades...

We had a client in this afternoon who was wondering how to setup her email; hosted with ourselves, in some kind of email client. She found the webmail installed on the server hard to use, a very common complaint. So as avid users of Gmail we obviously suggested she get an account with them. She had never used Gmail before so her first question was how she would get her email in Gmail. Below we have prepared a brief and to the point tutorial on how to setup your emails and getting...

It has been fifteen years since Active Webdezign opened its doors and modem connection to the world of the Internet. Being a web design company based in London, we were fortunate enough to have clients come to us for our services right from the word go. Admittedly, we did start off with minimal technical expertise and, as you can imagine, this was a steep learning curve for everyone embarking on this new communications phenomenon. At the time, way back in ’99, there were not many programmers with enough experience in...