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We’re all going on a Summer Holiday

dave — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:47:57 +0000

No more working for a week or two… Just to let all clients, and anyone wishing to make an enquiry, know that I’ll be away on annual summer holidays and persona non grata from 25.07.10 until 01.08.10 inclusive.

However, if you have any urgent requirements please do get in touch and I’ll attend to these as soon as I get back.

Content managed websites for only £599!

dave — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:42:33 +0000

Ever since I first set-up Dave Johnson Design, I’ve offered clients the very best products and services, and for the most competitive prices. Originally, my static HTML website templates proved very popular with several clients, and many are still benefiting from these sites today. However, the website services I can now offer clients have taken a giant leap into the future.

The new Content Management System (CMS) is very simple to use and administer, and can allow for multiple levels of user access if required. No special software is required to use the CMS – site owners can add/edit/delete pages, news articles, blog articles, menu items, and content images using the standard web browser already have loaded on the PC. Content can be added, edited or deleted at any time, from any PC, and from any location in the world with internet access!

Choose from any 1 of my 5 pre-built, fully tested, and ready-to-install premium templates – 5-1 - Cool – Luxury – PhotoNexus – Agency

If you’d like further information, and links to my ‘live’ demo sites, please get in touch.

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New Agency Website Theme

dave — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:39:34 +0000

Ever since I first set-up Dave Johnson Design, I’ve striven to offer clients the very best products and services, for the most competitive prices. Originally, my static HTML website templates proved very popular with several clients, and many are still benefiting from these sites today. However, the website services I can now offer clients have taken a giant leap into the future.

Agency is one of my new ‘premium’ business website templates – but Agency isn’t just a pretty face. Behind the stylish new design lies a robust, dynamic, state-of-the-art website content management system (CMS). The Agency premium business template is available in 4 colour options – Fire, Sky (illustrated below), Mocha, Lime.

The CMS is very simple to use and administer, and can allow for multiple levels of user access if required. No special software is required to use the CMS – site owners can add/edit/delete pages, news articles, blog articles, menu items, and content images using the standard web browser already have loaded on the PC. Content can be added, edited or deleted at any time, from any PC, and from any location in the world with internet access!

If you’d like further information, and a link to my ‘live’ demo site, please get in touch.

New PhotoNexus Website Theme

dave — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:31:53 +0000

PhotoNexus is one of my new ‘premium’ business website templates – but PhotoNexus isn’t just a pretty face. Behind the stylish new design lies a robust, dynamic, state-of-the-art website content management system (CMS). The PhotoNexus creative portfolio template is available in ‘Dark’ (illustrated below) or ‘Light’ colour options.

If you’d like further information, and a link to my ‘live’ demo site, please get in touch.

PayPal Bolt-on Shopping Cart

dave — Mon, 03 May 2010 18:45:44 +0000

PayPal is ‘the’ secure online payment method, which allows you to get paid quickly and easily without sharing any of your financial information. Every year, millions of people use PayPal to send and receive money, and make online payments.

Now you can accept fully secure payments online, without the expense of an annual eMerchant account or secure certificate – all you need to do is sign up for a free PayPal Account (if you don’t have one already). As the website administrator, you can easily configure the system to accept full or part payments (eg deposits), for any number of products or services, and on any page of your website. Your customers can pay using their own PayPal account, or any valid credit/debit card.

If you’re one of my new premuim business template customers, you can add this bolt on to any page or pages of your dynamic website. For more information, a link to a working demo, and prices, please get in touch.

New ‘5in1′ Website Template

dave — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 08:00:43 +0000

5in1 is one of my new ‘premium’ business website templates – but 5in1 isn’t just a pretty face. Behind the stylish new design lies a robust, dynamic, state-of-the-art website content management system (CMS). As its name suggests, 5in1 is available in one of 5 stylish colour options.

If you’d like further information, and a link to my ‘live’ demo site, please get in touch.

New ‘Cool’ Website Template

dave — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:43:35 +0000

Cool is one of my new ‘premium’ business website templates – but Cool isn’t just a pretty face. Behind the stylish new design lies a robust, dynamic, state-of-the-art website content management system (CMS). Cool is also available in one of 6 stylish colour options.

If you’d like further information, and a link to my ‘live’ demo site, please get in touch.

New ‘Luxury’ Website Template

dave — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:35:16 +0000

Luxury is one of my new ‘premium’ business website templates. But Luxury isn’t just a pretty face. Behind the stylish new design lies a robust, dynamic, state-of-the-art website content management system (CMS).

If you’d like further information, and a link to my ‘live’ demo site, please get in touch.

Lake District Sunset

dave — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:34:09 +0000

As I was leaving Windermere the other night I saw this amazing sunset.

Traces of snow on the distant fells, fantastic colour bouncing off the low cloud and casting a pink hue over everything. I took 5 shots over a period of 5 minutes but then the light and colour began to fade.

No special set-up – just handheld on my Canon EOS450D with a 28mm lens.

Apologies for the watermark – I’ve had a few issues, in the past, with people and organisations flaunting copyright notices, and my images appearing where they shouldn’t without permission. If you’re interested in similar photography for your project, please do get in touch.

Finally, an alternative to Microsoft…

dave — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:04:09 +0000

Just about every computer, in every office and home, has a copy of Microsoft Office running on it – wether it be legal or bootleg. For many this is the quintessential software suite for day-to-day word processing and spreadsheets. But its expensive to buy and upgrade, non user-friendly and, at times, can also be the most infuriating software known to man.

For anyone who’s as fed up with Microsoft products as I am, there is hope.

I discovered, not a stiff drink at the end of every Microsoft Office session, but a really well built and well designed open source office suite called OpenOffice. Its free to download, works on practically every computer platform available and is fully compatible with all existing Microsoft Office documents.

OpenOffice packages include Writer (Word), Calc (Excel), Impress (PowerPoint), plus Draw (drawing package), Base (for database creation), and Math (for creating and resolving mathematical formulae).

What they say…
OpenOffice.org 3 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.

What I say…
It works, is available on just about any computer platform and its totally free – what more is there to say except download it now!