Posted: April 24th, 2013 | Author: Foamcow | Filed under: General | | No Comments »
Transactional email services are hot news right now and with good reason. Using a Transactional email service means your site or server doesn’t have to do the heavy lifting and you’ve got a place to go when your client says that “email isn’t working”. Here’s a quick guide to setting up your ExpressionEngine web site to use Mandrill – a great, very low cost, transactional email service from the people that do Mailchimp.
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Posted: October 12th, 2011 | Author: Foamcow | Filed under: Web Design | | No Comments »
I have seen talk that Responsive Web Design means you are making a stripped down, “My first website” for use on mobile devices. I disagree and here’s why.
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Posted: July 29th, 2011 | Author: Foamcow | Filed under: How to, Web Design | | 4 Comments »
I recently put a new ExpressionEngine site live which featured a search facility that returned results based on multiple category selections. To do this without using a third-party add-on such as Super Search I had to create a little work-around. To be honest, I didn’t think much of this as it seemed quite straightforward but a number of people have asked me how I did it so I thought I would share the information here – mainly because I’m likely to forget an need to do it again at some point.
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Posted: May 6th, 2011 | Author: Foamcow | Filed under: General, Social Comment | Tags: AV, democracy, politics, yes2AV | No Comments »
If no candidate gets over 50% of the support then how is that democratic?
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Posted: December 17th, 2010 | Author: Foamcow | Filed under: Food, General | | No Comments »
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