Mother is here!

It lives! It breathes! Mother is alive! (Mwu-ha-ha….) After months in development, Mother is now available for use….

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Mother is coming…!

For the past 3 months, as well as working on customers’ websites, we’ve been busy beavering away on a new web-based service to be launched soon: Mother!

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What Video can do for your Website

Putting video on your website is a perfect way of engaging with your audience – watch this video to find out more……

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Why your business should be blogging

Here are just a few commercial reasons, why you should seriously consider having a blog!

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PHP developer required for 3 month project

Metanym needs a skilled PHP developer for an exciting project starting soon.
We’re looking for someone with excellent PHP5 skills, encompassing frameworks and templating, APIs and MySQL databases.  Strong knowledge of Ajax, and its use in state-of-the-art user interfaces, is also required.
The project’s initially envisaged timescale is 3 months full-time, although there may be a need [...]

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New Membership Rewards Sites for Direct Line Insurance and England Squash & Racketball

Metanym are proud to announce the completion of new membership rewards websites for Direct Line Insurance and England Squash & Racketball.
The websites were designed and developed by us in partnership with Counterpoint Promotions Ltd, using a bespoke system we developed for them, which allows the online provision of various promotions and incentives, including single use [...]

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Using NEXTGen Gallery Tagcloud as Navigation

There is ONE BIG DRAWBACK with the NEXTGen Gallery Plugin’s tagcloud – once you have clicked a tag, and are presented with the images related to that tag, the tagcloud has gone from the results page.  Here is a solution if you want to use the tagcloud as an ever-present navigation option in your gallery [...]

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eCommerce Best Practice

eCommerce
Codes of Best Practice

There are two main objectives for an online shop. Drive as many customers towards it, then do everything you can to convert as many of those customers as possible into buyers. The latter relies upon the products you’re selling, the service you offer and the design and functionality of your website.
The primary [...]

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Review of Screenflow screencast software for the Mac

Hi everyone – I’ve been wanting to get into putting some video on the blog for ages.  I particularly want to do website tours and a few othe ideas I have which involve “screencasting”, i.e. where you make a video of what is on your computer screen, with a little “talking head” commentary superimposed.  In [...]

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10 Dynamite Wordpress Plugins

Anyone  using Wordpress to power their blog or website is probably aware that there are a myriad of Plugins available for the system, either from Wordpress themselves, or from a myriad of 3rd party developers.  Plugins extend or modify the functionality of the Wordpress system, covering everything from adding sections like ecommerce or booking calendars, [...]

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