development

The geek section? How things are built under the hood.

Flash embed code - Validates as STRICT

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 by Rob

When you publish your flash movie and flash produces a html page, you’d think, cool the code has all been done for me. But you’re wrong. Very wrong. This code flash produces will not validate in transitional markup, let alone strict.
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ISL Page RSS - Wordpress Plugin

Friday, September 5th, 2008 by Steven

Download for free our Page RSS plugin directly from the Wordpress extensions site. (more…)

Internet Explorer 6 - Should we still be supporting it?

Thursday, September 4th, 2008 by Steven

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 was released way back in 2001 and has been the browser of choice for the majority of web surfers up until the release of the version 7 incarnation in 2006. (more…)

external swf files and relative paths in Wordpress

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 by Rob

If you use relative paths for Flash in Wordpress, for example you have a basic .swf in which you load new shock wave files or images into, you may find that flash is unable to find these external files. The result? A big white space where you expected a fancy, flashy, all singing all dancing design.

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PayPal Instant Payment Notifications (IPN)

Thursday, July 10th, 2008 by Steven

Harnessing the simplicity and power of PayPal’s Instant Payment Notification system (or PayPal IPN for short) is a perfect solution to selling online downloads and subscription based content.

With their IPN system it is possible for PayPal to communicate information such as successful payments as well as the customer’s information during the payment process. At Inmeres we have solutions for bespoke systems or existing open-source systems such as OS Commerce, Zen Cart, or even Wordpress.

Your knowledge is worth paying for, and through the combination of PayPal IPN, Wordpress and a subscription based system you can sell this information. Either in the form of protected web pages or downloadable documents such as Adobe Acrobat PDFs.

How to get top of google

Thursday, July 10th, 2008 by Rob

We’ve been working hard on increasing our web sites ranking in search engines. SEO or search engine optimisation is a process of making your site search engine friendly.

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Wordpress plugins

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 by Steven

Wordpress was originally developed as a simple blogging system, since then it has grown to become the leading open-source blog solution and far more than just a blog. (more…)