Web design blog by Caged Fish

Market Harborough Restaurant Ascoughs chose Caged Fish web design to build them a new site for their Bistro in Market Harborough. The site was built utilising full CMS. Visit www.ascoughsbistro.co.uk

We have just launched a new online store for Halo Jewellery in  Market Harborough. Halo have a fantastic range of Sterling Silver and Semi precious Jewellery (Ask my wife)

They carry a full range of Thomas Sabo charms and Thomas Sabo Jewellery.

Site was built in Actinc catalog

Caged Fish are pleased to announce the relaunch of http://www.sportsequip.co.uk

The site was taken from an existing project, rebuilt in Actinic 9 and given the full SEO Caged Fish treatment.

Caged Fish web design Market Harborough are pleased to welcom their new member of staff. Thay are joined by Jamie Grove in the roll of Web developer

Dent removal Leicester company Dent Technique have been working with Caged Fish web design over the last two years. Initially it was to help with the SEO and news sections of the site. Two years on a site redesign has been completed. Dent Technique celebrate 10 years in business in 2009. The company go from strength to strength after launching their successful franchise operation.

Caged Fish web design Market Harborough are pleased to support Market Harborough’s Arts Fresco festival. We recently completed the new site for the festival which can be found at www.artsfresco.com

Caged Fish have finished the move into our new web design studio on St Mary’s Road, Market Harborough. The light and friendly atmosphere from the old studio has been enhanced by a first floor, barn conversion location.

Our new server room and meeting room will add to the space available and give the opportunity for workshops on blogging and content managing your website (more news to follow).

If you ever wish to come and have a chat about your web design projects or internet marketing, give us a call, make an appoitment and come and have a nosey at our new studio.

Internet Explorer 6 was first released in August 2001, that makes it over 7 years old. To say it is the bane of our studio is an understatement. Whole rafts of code have to be put in just to drag this awful piece of software up to standards compliant code that makes websites appear as they should. It is antiquated beyond belief and should be killed off, however many people and organisations still use it, so it’s still with us, for now. Why?

There are lots of reasons…

• some people aren’t aware what a web-browser is (yes it’s Internet Explorer and others, see below)
• Some organisations are tied into IE6 as their intranets are written specifically for it
• some people are running pirated windows software

Really there is no excuse for running this software, all alternatives are free and take no time to instal they’re faster and safer.
Here’s an email we had that gives hope to the end.

Starting in 2010, iStock the popular stock image site will begin phasing out support for Internet Explorer 6 or lower. Why? Other than PC World Magazine ranking in the 8th worst tech product of all time, here’s thier top 5 reasons to upgrade:

1. Security continues to be an issue with this legacy browser. We want people browsing to be safe!
2. It’s slow. Too slow. It’s orders of magnitude slower than modern, efficient browsers.
3. It’s non-standards compliant. This means our developers have to develop an almost completely different version of iStock to run on it.
4. It doesn’t properly support cool new functionality that you are asking for, and we want to deliver.
5. Alternatives are free, fast and easy to download:

Internet Explorer 7 |   Internet Explorer 8 R.C. 1 |   Firefox 3 |   Safari 3.2 |   Google Chrome

They equate not upgrading to…

Neglecting to upgrade your software is like choosing to face the enemy with a cardboard shield and a paper sword when you could have the latest Kevlar™ vest and ray gun. Just upgrade already!

So if you are still running IE6 please, please upgrade, it is in your best interests.
For those that do not know what version of IE they are running I’ve given you 2 screen grabs to help you find out (below)

Peter Stevenson at ChipsAway Leicester has worked alongside Caged Fish web design Leicester to create www.morethanjustchips.com. The site is to allow the viewing of Peters work in cosmetic paint repair

Market Harborough printers Omniprint tasked Caged Fish web design with their brand new corporate site, the site was built with full CMS capability