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Welcome to the Salcombe Web Design blog. This is kept up to date by our Creative Director Daniel Ashton. Daniel is a project manager, graphic designer and website consultant. He set up Treblevision in Manchester in 2001, is now the driving force behind Salcombe web design and still works as one of the UK's leading freelance developers in PHP, HTMl5 and CSS3. Here you can follow all the company developments within Salcombe Web Design, but also more importantly, industry and technological advances in web development, brand and graphic design along with tutorials for novice developers and those who manage the content of their own design and website projects.

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Setting up a Facebook business page

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Written by Daniel Ashton | 18 May 2012
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Why a Facebook business page? Facebook allow friends profiles for individuals only. If you've setup your Facebook account in the name of your business it's likely the account will get shut down by Facebook. The official way to launch your business on Facebook is by setting up a business or fan page. to do this

Set yourself up a personal Facebook account in your own name

Once active follow this link http://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php

We offer a professional Facebook Page setup service and can customise your pages appearance and add custom apps to create things like menu pages, events pages, blog integration and much more. we can also advise on further marketing.

Here's some examples of our work

http://www.facebook.com/islandstreet
http://www.facebook.com/SalcombeCoffeeCo
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kaya-Gallery/147106551992699
http://www.facebook.com/ExeterGolfCountryClub

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Background Images explained

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Written by Daniel Ashton | 18 May 2012
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There are many different ways to insert images into your html pages both directly and using CSS properties. If you'd like to justify images next to paragraph text then the simple IMG HTML tag is all you need, but if you'd like to create a background pattern or place an image behind some text then yiu need to understand the CSS background image property.
Code:
body
{
background-image:url('paper.gif');
background-color:#cccccc;
}

It's important to make sure the pah to your image is correct and to further understand the repeat property. The background can either be repeated along is X and Y axis, along just one axis or set to no-repeat.

To try this yourself follow this link http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/tryit.asp?filename=trycss_background-image.

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Social media marketing

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Written by Daniel Ashton | 13 May 2012
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We'll be running loads of social media tutorials for free at salcombewebdesign.com/blog this month.

Learn how to setup and make the best of your profile, how to properly set up a Facebook places page of your business and actively promote it through ppc marketing. We'll look at how to customise and integrate your networks and the very best use of all the apps and tools available to your business.


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How to remove author email from Joomla RSS feeds

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Written by Daniel Ashton | 12 May 2012
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You might have noticed when viewing your Joomla RSS feed in reader it displays the authors email and alias (if ones set).

There is no setting in Joomla's adminsitrator area that will remve this data, it must be done in the server side PHP files

From this file: mydirectory/libraries/joomla/document/feed/renderer/rss.php and atom.php remove the following lines of code:

Code:
if ($data->items[$i]->authorEmail!="") {
            $feed.= "         <author>".htmlspecialchars($data->items[$i]->authorEmail . ' (' .
                              $data->items[$i]->author . ')', ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8')."</author>\n";
         }

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Code a Backwards Compatible, One Page Portfolio with HTML5 and CSS3

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Written by Daniel Ashton | 13 January 2012
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HTML5 is the future of web development but believe it or not you can start using it today. HTML5 is much more considerate to semantics and accessibility as we don’t have to throw meaningless div’s everywhere. It introduces meaningful tags for common elements such as navigations and footers which makes much more sense and are more natural.

This is a run through of the basics of HTML5 and CSS3 while still paying attention to older browsers. Before we start, make note of the answer to this question. Read the ful tutorial here
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