The Birth Team Website

We were recommended to The Birth Team by a previous work colleague. Sarah, co-creator of The Birth Team, was a little disillusioned with web designers after a few bad experiences. Dare to Think were there to reassure her that we’re always here to help and will listen and explain in non-techy words exactly what’s to be done with the site. The Birth Team required a website that was simple, clear, informative, enticing and easy to maintain with an added News section. The result is something we’re all proud of and more importantly is proving to be an ongoing success for their business.

Root Path and Configuration of your Website using php

There’s times when you need to know the root path of a website as well as all of the configuration details of that server. This is actually very simple, we’ll explain how… Read More…

Show and hide text in a form field using onclick and onblur

A great way to reduce the need for a field heading/title is to include the informative text within the text field. This is most commonly used in search fields, where there’s often no further available room to include a heading alongside or above. Read More…

Should you remove the border on clicked links

Firstly, dotted borders on clicked links are there for a reason – For accessibility and usability. They may not look pretty on your newly designed website but some folk rely on them to get around the web. Therefore only remove if strictly necessary. Read More…

Testing websites in IE6, IE7 and IE8 on a Mac

When designing and developing websites it’s important to test in all of the most popular browsers. Those are currently Firefox, IE6, IE7, IE8, Google Chrome and Safari. For some reason PC users don’t seem to update their version of Internet Explorer so as each new version arrives on the scene we then have to develop for those very old browsers. Anyway, here’s how to do it… Read More…

IE6 Div Height Problem

We all know IE6 is the web developers nightmare and today that continued when I was unable to make a 5px high div appear that height in IE6. Wow, the amount of time I spend on IE6 when developing sites is quite astonishing and I can’t wait for the day when we see the death of IE6. Anyhow back to the problem: IE6 kept wanting to show the 5px high div as 20px! After a bit of playing and hunting around the web here’s how I overcame the problem. Read More…

10 Tips to Clean, Optimize and Speed up your WordPress Site

If you find your WordPress Site is struggling speed-wise or you’ve been given your marching orders from your web hosts (due to high CPU usage) then read on and hopefully these few tips will help sort out and speed up your WordPress Blog. Read More…

10 FREE Mac apps you can't do without

I won’t list the obvious such as Illustrator, Photoshop, MS Word etc but more those little apps that you’ve probably not even heard of. There’s absolutely loads of them – yes, even for us Mac users – but which ones should you download. I’ve chosen 10 here that I use on a daily basis – I’m sure there’s others out there and I’d be interested to know what little hidden gems you know of that you think other should use… Remember it has to be FREE! Read More…

Launch of point de collection… website

point de collectionThe English version of point de collection launched today. point de collection… provide an exclusive range of quality wines from France and Spain. They also have the ability, through the CMS, to include French content, which will be added in the next couple of months – we’ll keep you updated with future site developments.

Dare to Think were recommended by La Ferme du Mont, who were recommended by VertuVin. It just goes to show the importance of contacts and creating and maintaining a strong client relationship. Hopefully, we’ll visit the Vineyards soon and celebrate in style!

Launch of Senectus Therapeutics Website

Senectus TherapeuticsWe seem to be launching sites on a daily basis at the moment! Senectus Therapeutics is the next one to launch today. They are a drug discovery company are are part of a Cancer Research Technology initiative. They required a website that was easy for them to update so they could add the very latest news throughout the year. Users are also able to keep up to date with latest developments through an RSS feed and email updates.

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…they totally get it. I really value their honesty in flagging up any issues at the outset rather than waiting until we’re too far into the project, which sounds simple but is something a lot of places don’t do. t7F London