http://blog.jimmyweb.net Jimmyweb's friendly designers and developers view on web design and web development using such tools as magento, symfony, php, jquery and photoshop. Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:26:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Offering a free, limited time trial for a software product or online service is not a new trend, however a recent development is vendors requesting credit card details before access to the trial is possible. I recently decided to check out Audible, a service that supplies audio books for portable audio ... http://blog.jimmyweb.net/news/dont-ask-for-my-credit-card-number-for-a-free-trial/ Over the past week there has been a bit of buzz online about Rupert Murdoch's plans for the future of News Limited's websites. In a recent interview with Sky News, Rupert said he was thinking about removing his websites from Google and placing his news articles behind a paywall, available ... http://blog.jimmyweb.net/news/what-is-rupert-murdoch-up-to/ Ok, so I might be drawing a long bow to say that this post has anything to do with web design and development, but bear with me. I've been banking with the same regular, normal bank since I was a child. There's never been any real  incentive to change banks, no ... http://blog.jimmyweb.net/jimmyweb/the-satisfaction-of-leaving/ Anyone who has used Google Analytics knows just how awesome and useful the software can be.  Anonymously tracking users to your website, gathering data on site usage, discovering traffic trends, Google Analytics is a wonderful tool for any business on the web. After doing some Analytics work for a website today, ... http://blog.jimmyweb.net/news/beyond-the-web-real-world-analytics/ There's been a lot of buzz about Twitter recently in the media, so its natural to want to know what all the fuss is about, and learn more about how Twitter might benefit you, both personally and in business. I thought it might be a good idea, to put together a ... http://blog.jimmyweb.net/writing/10-tips-for-businesses-starting-out-with-twitter/ I recently read a post over at 37 signals about why the designers there skip Photoshop in the design process and I found myself agreeing with most of the conversation. There are some good reasons for designing this way, along with some good counterpoints. The Photoshop mockup just isn't a website. A ... http://blog.jimmyweb.net/design/agile-design-quickly-moving-from-photoshop-to-css/ Many traditional advertising agencies are, by neccessity, now moving into the web design and web development space. This makes perfect business sense considering the large amount of money which is being refunneled from traditional advertising methods into online advertising and marketing. An unfortunate side-effect of this is that graphic designers with ... http://blog.jimmyweb.net/news/use-a-web-designer-not-a-print-designer-to-design-your-website/ If you get the error "Call to undefined method BasesfGuardUser::addsfGuardUserProfile" when using a custom sfGuardUser profile, you need to add the following method to the file /plugins/sfGuardPlugin/lib/model/sfGuardUser.php public function addsfGuardUserProfile() { if(!$profile = $this->getProfile()) { $profile = ... http://blog.jimmyweb.net/news/symfony-tip-admin-generator-sfguardplugin-sfguard-profile/ A quick tip for those getting incorrect record totals (and thus broken paging) when using the propel pager in Symfony: Add the following method to your pager object: $pager->setPeerCountMethod('getGroupedCount'); Then create the following method in your peer class:     public static function getGroupedCount($c)     {         $copy = clone $c; ... http://blog.jimmyweb.net/developer/symfony-tip-propel-pager-with-group-by-returns-incorrect-total/ We recently recommended to a client that they set up a page on their website promoting themselves (and optimised for their name) so that people searching for them in Google would get this page as (hopefully) the first result. The client expressed some concerns about putting themselves out on the web ... http://blog.jimmyweb.net/writing/managing-your-online-reputation/