Category: Development

Launching My new site 2

Launching My new site

A new look VisdomSoft website was launched on Monday 10 March, with a more up-to-date design and an improved structure. I, Project manager, has been leading the redesign project over the past three months. “As well as giving the website a cleaner and more modern design, we wanted to make...

Forcing www (or no-www) in domain name 0

Forcing www (or no-www) in domain name

One of the first things I do when I begin implementing a site is to force the www (or no-www) in the domain name. Why would I want to do this? For search engine optimization of course. For example, naseerahmad.com redirects to www.naseerahmad.com. What this means for Google is that...

Unicode Data with PHP 5 and MySQL 4.1 7

Unicode Data with PHP 5 and MySQL 4.1

Unicode background In the ever expanding world of e-commerce and information technology, one thing above all is coming to the forefront of internet design – globalization. For many large companies, web documents are translated into many different languages. However, the computer technologies we use for storing data weren’t originally designed...