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Fresh new look.. on it’s way!

Piers — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 12:51:09 +0000

Almost 10 years! Well it’s been almost 10 years and yes our website hasn’t the love and attention it deserves. Our website is currently in the process of a staggered overhaul, new look, new content and will hopefully we will keep it up to date! I know, yes when you’re a small business and extremely […]

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Piers

Founder, designer & developer at Digital-Zest Online Ltd

For 22 years I have been creating websites and digital media solutions for my clients and several marketing agencies.

Situated in the UK.

Website launch: Independents Insurance

Piers — Sun, 26 Jun 2022 18:04:43 +0000

We recently launched another professional looking WordPress site, this time for Independents Insurance, a new customer based in Reading. Independents Insurance were looking for a fresh new look They were looking for a fresh, modern and extremely professional new look to expand their reach within their target niche, whilst projecting their standards and attention to detail […]

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Piers

Founder, designer & developer at Digital-Zest Online Ltd

For 22 years I have been creating websites and digital media solutions for my clients and several marketing agencies.

Situated in the UK.

Special invitation to the AdWeek Game of Thrones Gala

Piers — Tue, 03 May 2016 18:29:11 +0000

Since finishing their new website, I have been working with the marketing team at Sky Media, creating digital invitations, microsites and RSVP forms for the upcoming VIP event, but did not expect an invite to the AdWeek and Sky Media Game of Thrones opening Gala on the 18th April at Southwark Cathedral.

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Piers

Founder, designer & developer at Digital-Zest Online Ltd

For 22 years I have been creating websites and digital media solutions for my clients and several marketing agencies.

Situated in the UK.

Dreamweaver CS6 on Win10 crashes when you edit a file

Piers — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 14:01:56 +0000

I've been running Windows 10 for three weeks and Dreamweaver had been functioning fine up until now, but this morning it had different ideas. Each time I tried to amend any (or create a new) web document (.css .html .php or .js) it would crash instantly with a useless “there was a problem” error message.

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Piers

Founder, designer & developer at Digital-Zest Online Ltd

For 22 years I have been creating websites and digital media solutions for my clients and several marketing agencies.

Situated in the UK.

Setting your product blocks to equal heights in each row

Piers — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 11:56:56 +0000

Recently I was working on a clients website, applying a new responsive template with a fresh new look. I was trying to make sure all the products on a category page within their Magento store would nicely line up vertically with equal heights within each row, without any stray CSS floaters on each category page. I was looking for a CSS solution to my problem, it turned out that we needed a Javascript solution in the form of a jQuery plugin.

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Piers

Founder, designer & developer at Digital-Zest Online Ltd

For 22 years I have been creating websites and digital media solutions for my clients and several marketing agencies.

Situated in the UK.

Going responsive and adding a CSS Class to wrap FishPig’s iBanner at the XML Block level

Piers — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 17:57:09 +0000

For years, I have been using Fishpig’s free iBanner extension to display image carousel’s on my customers Magento eCommerce stores. It is one of the best extensions to quickly allow non-tech-savvy users to add their own slides quickly and easily without any coding knowledge. But I wanted to make it responsive and add my own CSS wrapper without editing any source code...

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Piers

Founder, designer & developer at Digital-Zest Online Ltd

For 22 years I have been creating websites and digital media solutions for my clients and several marketing agencies.

Situated in the UK.

PayPal IPN issues with upgrading Magento 1.6 to 1.9.1.1

Piers — Fri, 15 May 2015 14:59:57 +0000

My heart sunk, when a couple of days later my client contacted me asking about their order statuses not being updated and that they received this unusual email from PayPal. With the subject: PayPal Instant Payment Notification Warning After searching all the error logs, there was nothing to find! Nothing relating to PayPal IPN, any Curl communication errors. No 503's, 500's Nothing!

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Piers

Founder, designer & developer at Digital-Zest Online Ltd

For 22 years I have been creating websites and digital media solutions for my clients and several marketing agencies.

Situated in the UK.

Is your Magento site running slow like an old tortoise?

Piers — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 15:24:43 +0000

Good old Magento web-stores, they're a fantastic eCommerce platform for selling on-line, packed full of free features and functionality. However, it can get bogged down and begin to limp as it scales, especially if you do not make a few tweaks here and there!

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Piers

Founder, designer & developer at Digital-Zest Online Ltd

For 22 years I have been creating websites and digital media solutions for my clients and several marketing agencies.

Situated in the UK.

Exclusive 15% off your UK Web hosting costs throughout March

Piers — Wed, 11 Mar 2015 18:02:47 +0000

Well there you go, sometime’s discounts (or coupon codes) come to you! The other day I decided to leave a 5 star review for my Web hosting company on both their Google plus and Facebook pages. One day later they contacted me with a promotional discount code for 15% OFF any shared hosting plan!

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Piers

Founder, designer & developer at Digital-Zest Online Ltd

For 22 years I have been creating websites and digital media solutions for my clients and several marketing agencies.

Situated in the UK.

Making life easier cloning sites with WordPress Multisite

Piers — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 16:36:29 +0000

When faced with potentially 100's of micro-sites, you can save time, by quickly cloning each of the sub-sites for different regions in WordPress Multisite.

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Piers

Founder, designer & developer at Digital-Zest Online Ltd

For 22 years I have been creating websites and digital media solutions for my clients and several marketing agencies.

Situated in the UK.