How to add special offers, discounts and vouchers in OpenCart

There are various ways you can offer discounts to your customers with OpenCart - you can do it via "Specials", "Discounts" or "Coupons" (voucher codes).Specials:Specials let you mark an item as being reduced in price - depending on your theme, this might show the old price with a line through…

Disney breaking copyright?

I’ve just read a post by Katie Woodger published on her Tumblr blog about an hour ago and it appears that Disney are using a drawing of hers without her permission.

Google’s semantic web needs to be careful

We've just had a conversation about Gilbey's Gin, after a client of ours did some work for them.So, the first thing I did was Google "Gilbey's Gin", which brought back a result showing me a photo of Sir Walter Gilbey, along with a photo of him and some info about…

Using Twitter Web Intents

We've just added some social media links to Poole Trail so that people can share the great stories and media on the City Insights route.As the design called for custom links rather than just social media icons / widgets, we discovered that the old way of doing things for Twitter…

Looking behind the headlines – the success of Summly

National news headlines yesterday were full of Nick D’Aloisio and the acquisition of his iPhone app, Summly, by Yahoo in a multi-million pound deal.

Line breaks in Twitter posts

Not exactly the most exciting Social Media news ever, but yesterday Twitter announced that you can see line breaks in tweets on the web/from your desktop rather than only in it’s mobile off

Tablets overtake smartphones as the device of choice

Last week Adobe Digital Index announced that global websites are now receiving more traffic from tablets than from smartphones.

Google+ cover photos just got (a lot) bigger

Well I picked the wrong day (yesterday) to decide to finally sit down and sort out the Talking Web Google+ page and try and tie up the string of old Google services / places pages my company

New home page for Yahoo.com

The interweb is alive with discussion over the new home page for Yahoo.com.

My Local School launches in Wales

The Welsh Government have launched a clear and easy to use site for parents to view key information about how schools are performing.

Facebook like becomes share

Like or share - confusion!

Facebook like button migration

Share or like - what do you want people to do?!