http://blog.symbiotica.co.uk Bespoke Web Development, Content Manangement Systems and E-Commerce Sat, 17 Jul 2010 23:11:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We've just started using PHP FastCGI to power some of our websites like our free uk link directory, www.blinks.org.uk to make sure that everything is always running nice and quickly. So far everything is going perfectly. http://blog.symbiotica.co.uk/2010/07/were-now-using-with-php-fastcgi/ We've just added bookmarklets to the popular Science Fiction book website www.science-fictions.co.uk so you need never loose a page or a book again. The bookmark tool allows you to save bookmarks to a variety of social networking services including Google, Yahoo, Delicious & Digg. http://blog.symbiotica.co.uk/2009/12/never-loose-a-page-again/ Earlier this year we also spent a bit of time designing T-Shirts (not just beautiful websites) these are available to buy from Spreadshirt the online clothing producer. Butterfly T-shirt Spotty Dog T-shirt Shiny Dog Organic T-shirt http://blog.symbiotica.co.uk/2009/12/not-just-websites/ We've just created a Google Gadget to tie in with www.science-fictions.co.uk - our Sci-Fi Book website. If you suddenly feel the need to find out about a book by a particular author, the gadget allows you to just pick an author and then see available books. Add the Sci-Fi Book finder ... http://blog.symbiotica.co.uk/2009/10/sci-fi-book-finder-google-gadget/ Over at www.flipflops.org we've just released the code we use to manage menus and sitemaps in our CMS system, built on-top of the CakePHP application development framework. The Helper is designed to work with data arrays produced from either any $model->find('threaded') or from the 'Tree' behaviour: It's fairly common to want to ... http://blog.symbiotica.co.uk/2009/09/cakephp-menuhelper/ science-fictions.co.uk - our latest website has just gone live. This is a brand new E-commerce site designed to offer books and DVDs using the Amazon Product Advertising API. This means that you can offer products for sale on Amazon via your own website and when a customer wishes to make ... http://blog.symbiotica.co.uk/2009/09/sci-fi-book-website-goes-live/ The new site for SOL Electrical Ltd, a firm of Devon based Electrical Contractors is almost ready. At the moment we are just collating images and text with our clients. The site itself runs off a light weight template engine that we built specifically for this project, whilst the site content ... http://blog.symbiotica.co.uk/2009/09/sneak-preview-sol-electrical/ Blinks.org.uk is continuing to do well and now has a steady stream of businesses signing up. It is a Business Link Directory aimed at companies and organisations in the UK. It is organised by Region and by Category, and allows businesses to add a listing with thier address and contact ... http://blog.symbiotica.co.uk/2009/09/free-business-links-directory-doing-well/ We're pleased to be developing the website for Devolve Communications a new PR agency set up by ex BBC Journalist and New Statesman online editor, Ben Davies. Devolve is a one stop shop for digital communications, content, web redesign, video with a particular focus on membership and campaigning organisations. Doing business with ... http://blog.symbiotica.co.uk/2009/09/devolve-communications/ Symbiotica Media Development Ltd has arrived as of today. Bespoke website & application development based in Devon, England. E-commerce Content Management Systems CRM Systems Standards based, accessible LAMP based web development using a variety of tools including PHP, MySQL, CakePHP, jQuery, Python and Django. Our main website is currently under development and will hopefully be here ... http://blog.symbiotica.co.uk/2009/09/we-have-arrived/