Entries by Gordon Smith

What Makes a Great e-Commerce Site?

Which? Magazine have announced the top 100 best online shops according to their readers. There were some really surprising results. The top prize with a customer score of 91% was WexPhotographic.com – a supplier of photographic equipment. You might expect to see the online behemoths at the top of the list but in fact Amazon.co.uk came in […]

Case Study: Creating PDFs From ASP.NET Automatically

We completed another interesting project using technologies that we don’t normally use – creating PDFs from ASP.NET. Our client supplies materials around the world to research institutions. For decades, every year they produced a paper-based catalogue – an impressive heavyweight document – which they send to all their clients and anybody else who wanted one […]

Nominet Launches .UK Domain Names

Remember the date .UK launches on 10 Jun 2014. Existing owners have until 10 Jun 2019 to register their equivalent names. On 10 Jun 2014, Nominet (the UK domain names organisation) is launching .UK as a new domain extension. We have 15 years of history of .co.uk, org.uk, and more recently .me.uk so this is […]

What is Responsive Web Design?

Have you ever wondered what all the fuss is about “responsive” web design? Responsive design aims to present a site that’s tailored to the device on which you are viewing it. For example, on the web, screens are generally wider than they are tall (landscape format). But on mobile, screens are usually taller than they […]

UKcentric’s New Brand

We’re excited to reveal UKcentric’s new look! Several months in the planning, we’ve refocussed our site on what matters most to our customers. We’ve a fresh new logo and colour scheme to take us into 2014. We also have several new ways to get in touch – Facebook, Twitter and Skype to name but three.

WordPress Hosting

We’re delighted to announce we have added a great new service to our repertoire. WordPress is a fantastic blogging platform that is powering thousands of sites all around the world. Now you can have a WordPress-based web site on your domain for just a few pounds a month.