The Acuras Blogger

New location for official blog

2009-12-24T11:04:00.001+00:00

Our official blog can now be accessed at http://blog.acuras.co.uk

VAT Increase

2009-12-24T10:52:00.001+00:00

As you are probably aware, VAT returns to 17.5% in the new year so the new VAT rate will be applied to our invoices from January 1st 2010.

Posted via web from Buckinghamshire Web Design & Marketing

Official Blog Update

2009-12-18T11:53:00.001+00:00

We have decided to move our official blog for www.acuras.co.uk to posterous.com and it can be found here: http://acuras.posterous.com

We like the way posterous works and the fact that it allows for easy publishing to the blog via email. It's integration with other services such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn seems ideal as well...

Look out for more changes and improvements to www.acuras.co.uk in the new year.

We'll keep you posted!

Posted via web from Buckinghamshire Web Design & Marketing

SEO High Wycombe

2009-12-18T11:18:00.001+00:00

Check out our new "SEO High Wycombe" page on Posterous: http://seohighwycombe.posterous.com/

We offer SEO services and social media optimisation and especially like to help out local companies in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire and the surrounding areas - Marlow, Chesham, Amersham, Beaconsfield, Maidenhead, Berkshire

Recent bookmarks

2009-08-14T13:04:00.001+01:00

Our recent bookmarks of interesting reading…

Nifty Navigation Tricks Using CSS [CSS Tutorials]
A List Apart: Articles: Redesigning Your Own Site
The Definitive Guide to htaccess Techniques: Do’s and Don’ts
"select" Something New Part 1
"jQuery checkbox v.1.3.0 Beta 1" demo
Form Elements: 40+ CSS/JS Styling and Functionality Techniques | Noupe
SEO & Link Building Via Blog Comments
Firefox 4.0 looks like Chrome? | Tech News on ZDNet

2009-08-12T17:27:00.001+01:00

We are now starting to use Twitter. Our page is https://twitter.com/acuras_web

Would love to hear from you on Twitter.

Take care!

Heart Telecom - Broadband & Telephone for Business

2009-05-26T23:33:00.003+01:00

PSD to Valid XHTML/CSS Markup Service

2009-03-30T00:35:00.002+01:00

We now have a dedicated solution for PSD to XHTML/CSS conversion available through photoshop2css.com.

We convert your Adobe Photoshop design files (PSDs) to valid, cross-browser compatible XHTML and CSS code.

We can also convert your designs into templates or themes for Drupal, Joomla!, Blogger, WordPress and more...

Pricing is available on the photoshop2css.com website.

Recommended Open Source Invoicing System

2009-03-25T22:51:00.001+00:00

Ok this post did make it onto the www.acuras.co.uk main site here: http://www.acuras.co.uk/articles/123-recommended-open-source-invoicing-system but I thought it deserved a post here too...

If you're in business, invoicing clients and keeping track of payments is an essential part of your business routine. If you don't have the right tools, this can be a laborious task and it can be hard to keep track of invoices which have not been paid for in full.

So we thought we'd share with you a handy open source application called Simple Invoices. Simple Invoices is a simple, community developed, free/open source, web-based invoicing system. We personally recommend it.

It is continually in development and has some great features which make invoicing and tracking payments simple!

We offer the following Simple Invoices services:

Installation
Hosting
Technical support
Invoice template customisation
Custom reports
Bespoke extensions development

You can check out the demo here. Please get in touch if you would like to talk to us about setting up Simple Invoices for you or if you have any questions.

Google expands ad empire with expandable ads

2009-03-07T00:34:00.001+00:00

Google is now serving expandable display ads onto partner websites in its AdSense content network. But it's taking the tasteful route. Unlike so many others, these expandable ads won't consume your browser unless you ask them to.

read more | digg story

Sony reorganizes as president steps down

2009-03-01T23:34:00.001+00:00

Sony has announced a major reorganization of its business divisions that sees chief executive and chairman Howard Stringer also become president.

read more | digg story

Lake District Visit - February 2009

2009-02-27T23:18:00.000+00:00

Some photos from my Lake District visit at the end of February 2009. Very relaxing...

Acuras on Facebook

2009-02-19T23:14:00.003+00:00

We've setup a Facebook page for Acuras!

Check it out here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/High-Wycombe-United-Kingdom/Acuras/52116297916

Please become a fan or post some comments if you wish...

The Move To Linux, Hindered By Hardware

2009-02-07T13:14:00.001+00:00

With news today of Windows 7 being made available in no less than six different versions, it is getting harder and harder to not move lock, stock, and PGP key to Linux on a full time basis. Except...

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ImageFlow - Javascript Cover Flow for Websites

2009-02-06T22:42:00.001+00:00

Found this cool javascript solution which allows the “Cover Flow” technique to be used on websites...

ImageFlow is a picture gallery, which allows an intuitive image handling. The basic idea is to digitally animate the thumbing through a physical image stack. That intuitive handling is automatically caused by the metaphorical use of the well known process of thumbing through.

Learn more here.

Acuras Hosting Banner Design

2009-02-06T03:28:00.001+00:00

New banner design for the Acuras Hosting website. Uses the new Acuras Hosting logo and the Hypatia Sans Pro typeface for the text. What do you think?

Setting up Outlook with SMTP server requiring authentication

2009-02-06T03:23:00.000+00:00

Many SMTP mail servers require authentication in order to help ensure that only valid users send emails using the SMTP server. In order to send emails through an SMTP server that requires authentication, you need to setup your email client accordingly. The following instructions should help you do this...

Read More Here...

Norton Website Image Blocking - Blank Images Issue

2009-02-05T00:35:00.004+00:00

Found a very insightful article along with equally helpful comments here. Recently had a problem where a client's website was missing images when they viewed it on their Windows machines.

After lots of digging, turned out it was Nortons blocking the images because they had the word "banner" in the filename.

Lesson learned... don't name images with "banner" anywhere in the name otherwise Nortons may block them! Highly annoying!

Ubuntu Server Linux is for business

2009-02-05T00:34:00.001+00:00

Ubuntu isn't just for Linux fans and desktops anymore. Canonical and analyst firm RedMonk have just released survey results that show that there are thousands of business server users who already consider Ubuntu Server mission critical.

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Are Social Media Consultants Harming Social Media?

2009-02-03T09:49:00.001+00:00

I don’t mean to sound cynical, but I do wonder what value a lot of social media consultants bring to their clients, and how long that value will last. Is social media marketing the next big thing or merely a blip in the growth of the Internet?

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Google Earth 5.0 with Ocean Bed Maps and Mars!

2009-02-02T23:00:00.001+00:00

"Users can dive into the ocean, travel back in time and visit Mars in the newest version of Google Earth"

Looks pretty cool... Take a look here...

It's Snowing!!

2009-02-02T09:16:00.000+00:00

The First Windows Review Ever

2009-01-23T13:29:00.001+00:00

The following is an article that appeared in the December 1983 issue of Byte magazine. When I first created this site there was very little information about early versions of Windows on the web and no references to this article. It was almost as if there was some conspiracy to hide the truth about the age of Windows.

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Ultra versatile slider for websites

2009-01-20T23:55:00.001+00:00

This tutorial illustrates a simple step-by-step way to implement an ultra versatile slider with horizontal scrolling and animated effects using MooTools. This is a basic proposal you can improve how you prefer. I included a link to the source code you can customize and reuse quickly in your web projects.

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Dell Comments on Apple's Green Commitment, TUAW Translates

2009-01-20T23:52:00.001+00:00

Dell executive Bob Pearson decided to comment on Apple's "green" ad campaign. It was hard to understand. We were confused. Fortunately, The Unofficial Apple Weblog was nice enough to translate.

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