Blog Entries

My Development Tools

rob.locke@webformatique.com — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:00:00 +0100

Since we started the ResMania project I have collected some great tools, which most of our team now use. I feel these are really vital to development and producing bug free, quality web-app's and hope by sharing my findings it will help anyone working on web development or even with the ResMania framework!

I'm a Mac user but most of these tools are cross platform and available on Windows and Linux with the exception of CSSEdit.

Netbeans
This [...]

10 Ways to Protect Your Joomla Site

rob.locke@webformatique.com — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:00:00 +0100

I've been using Joomla for a long time now right back to the days of Mambo and have learn't a couple of times the hard way about securing Joomla. While I don't confess to being a security expert here's my top-ten list that I've picked up over the years that should help if you are looking to secure your site and all the work you' [...]

Site Templates

laura@webformatique.com — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:00:00 +0100

I spend allot of time managing design projects with our designer and customers and thought I would pass on some of my thoughts...

If you are wanting a website, you will need to consider how your site looks.

The style/design of your site is usually determined within the site template.

I thought, even just a few points to keep in mind, might be useful.

One word Simplicity please, if y [...]

Half a Dozen Steps to a Great Reservation Website

rob.locke@webformatique.com — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:00:00 +0100

It's not difficult to create a great property rental website for your villa, gite, hotel, b&b but some simple planning steps can really make the difference between just another website and a really fantastic site that stands out from the crowd and will improve your rental stream.

1. Choose a good domain name

We see if often, domain names such as rent-our-house-its-very-nice-but-our-domainname-is-too-long.com. While it might seem like a good idea at t [...]

New Webformatique Blog

rob.locke@webformatique.com — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:00:00 +0100

Like many I love the internet and have a real passion for the positive way the internet brings people and businesses together but my oh my doesn't it consume time! So when my colleagues suggested I started a blog I almost choked... "not more work!" So here it is... our first ever blog and we really hope you like it. We will be updating this with our latest news abou [...]