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It’s a wrap… for a car… Kaweb turns it’s hand to estate agent vehicle branding

We’ve recently undertaken some vehicle branding work for one of our estate agents – Nick Humphreys.

The Kaweb Twitter Guide

The Kaweb Twitter Guide. Answers to questions such as: How to I Tweet? Who should I follow? What’s a hashtag? How do I retweet? How to I mention someone in a Tweet?

Estate Agent Twitter Service Launched

Designed to work with existing managers of Twitter, the new service delivers tweets detailing information on the property as well as a hyperlink to the property page on the agent’s website.

Kaweb Launch Hosting Website

Well, our hosting service has grown somewhat over the years… and to that end we feel it needs it’s own home and have today launched kawebhosts.co.uk.

Estate Agency Branding – What’s Changed and How We Can Help

From ‘For Sale’ boards in the Front Garden… to ‘Like’s on Facebook – a lot has changed for estate agents over the years with regard to estate agency branding. These are our thoughts on what this has meant for agents breaking into what is still a very competitive market…

HTML 5 or Flash? Form vs function

So recently Daniel wrote about Mobile Sites vs Apps in a question of how to appeal to the largest user base.

Mobile site or App? Both!

Increasingly we are finding that businesses are asking us about bringing their sites to mobile devices, this is before we’ve even had a chance to pitch the idea!

Recruitment and Job Search iPhone Applications – Part 2

This is the second installment in our ongoing series where the iPhone Development team here at Kaweb take a look at the current state of iPhone applications.

Recruitment and Job Search iPhone Applications – Part 1

As iPhone application developers we here at Kaweb take more than a passing interest in the current state of iPhone Applications, whether that be out of pure curiosity or as part of opposition research when developing new App ideas for our clients.

mappr V2 – The Next Iteration of our Property Mapping Tool for Estate Agents

We at Kaweb are pleased to rollout the next version of mappr – our mapping solution used by our estate agent clients for plotting properties on a Google-styled map.

Social Networking a must for Birmingham businesses

A report out today suggests that 1 in every 6 minutes spent online is spent on Social Networking sites like Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and Tumblr…

Do Estate Agents need a native iPad App as well as an iPhone App?

That’s where the iPad is a tricky sell in terms of selling iPad native Apps I suppose – does it need to be any more ‘finger-savvy’ when the Safari browser can handle it?

How to retrieve the Unique Identifier (UDID) of your Apple device

The instructions below are designed to help our clients retrieve the UDID of their Apple device so that they can pass it to us so that we can then include it in a provisioning file – which we then send back to them (along with the App) for testing.

Green light for Traffic Management App from new client

We’re excited to have been approached by a new client to Kaweb to develop a tool for helping traffic planners workout stopping distances.

Recent move to new datacentre that boasts 100% Renewable Energy

Our hosting service is now located at a brand new datacentre in Enfield, London.

The datacentre facilities, provided by our current provider, Coreix, will benefit us, and so in turn – our clients.

Recent move to new datacentre that boasts 100% Renewable Energy

We Don’t Do Templates… Do We?

As a web company we are always telling clients that our designs are fully customised and that templates are not used by Kaweb… and that we don’t regurgitate old designs etc. etc.

Kaweb launch new website!

Part of our recent rebranding process has included the rework of our new look website.

Kaweb rebrand to launch on 1st of April

There’s some excitement in the camp at Kaweb… we’ve decided to rebrand.

Estate agent online payment page a great success

Another first from Kaweb – a new site for one of our clients (Nicholas Humphreys – a sales and letting agent based in Loughborough) features an online payment page. The service has proved a great success with payments being received as soon as it went live.

Google Earth featured in latest Estate Agent site from Kaweb

Kaweb have recently launched a new site that features a Google Earth property search results page.

Kaweb launch Support Website

With a view to further aid our clients with tracking the progress of any support queries they might have, Kaweb have launched a support website.

Kaweb gains PCI compliance status for shared hosting environment

Kaweb have been granted Type 4 SAQ C level compliant status for our shared servers.

Kaweb launches first iPhone App launched for estate agent

Kaweb have completed the production of an iPhone App for Aidan J Reed – one of our estate agent clients.

First iPhone App for Kaweb

We are all so excited, we thought we’d post this straightaway and release further detail when we’ve completed the project.

Setting up Autoresponders for Email Accounts that use the Plesk Control Panel

Need to setup an email to auto respond to emails that are sent to you while you are out for the day or on annual leave? This post outlines how you can do just that directly within your email server (ie. as oppose to your email client/software).

Schools Now Feature on mappr Service

mappr now allows users to see where schools are located within the area they are searching.

How to Setup Stationery in Outlook Express

We get asked this quite often so thought we’d post an article on how to use the Stationery option in Outlook Express. This post applies to Outlook Express v4 and v5.

mappr website launched

We’ve have launched a new website aimed at supporting our new mapping service.

Kaweb Purchase LivePropertyMap.com

Today, Kaweb completed the purchase of the assets and services of LivePropertyMap.com Ltd – the company that we purchased the River Internet brand from last year.

Property Mapping

Due to there being no need for a commercial license, and the superior amount of support available, Kaweb plumped for Google Maps for our new service, mappr.

mappr – The New Mapping Service from Kaweb

Kaweb have developed a new online mapping service that enables properties to be shown on a Google-styled map.

Authorisation Changes to Kaweb Incoming Mail Servers

Kaweb are always looking at how to cut down the amount of spam our clients receive. This is normally done through software management and updates carried out by one of our team.

New .tel Domain Released

A new style of domain name has been launched that allows individuals and businesses to store and manage all their contact information.

Kaweb News – November 2008

With news on site launches, support articles, and hardware updates – this is the first of a series of newsletters keeping our clients informed of all the latest goings-on at Kaweb.

Kaweb launch online payment service

Clients are now able to pay Kaweb using a secure online payment interface. This allows payments to be made by credit or debit card with the option of attributing that payment to existing invoice numbers.

Kaweb gain approval for Business Link Supplier Register

Kaweb are now an approved supplier for web design and marketing under the Business Link scheme.

Windows-based email accounts rejecting emails

As you may know, we recently had an issue with Windows-based email accounts (Hotmail, MSN, and Live) which were immediately rejecting emails sent from our mail servers.

Gene6 FTP Server will not restart after installing licence

This was on a Windows Server 2008 machine. Used the trial – great, like it, and after trying to get my head around Windows Server 2008 IIS 7 and it’s reworked FTP service, Gene6 FTP Server was a breeze. But hey, nearly fell at the first – the service would not start up after installing [...]

FileZilla will not load after force quit

FileZilla for the Mac is a gem of a program for those needing a free “traditional” FTP client (alternatives being the sleek Cyberduck and the Firefox add-on FireFTP). Recently, however, I had a problem. I created a new site with a default local directory that had over a thousand subdirectories. Upon connecting, the program began [...]

Kaweb upgrade Windows Server

This has been done not only to improve the performance for the clients from the River Internet purchase (of which all were on a Windows server) but to also allow for futher growth in this area from other clients who require a Windows environment.

MSSQL Server 2005 and CodeIgniter

During development work on one of our larger projects, we uncovered some rather alarming problems when using php_mssql.dll in conjunction with SQL Server 2005 Express. Just by perusing some of the comments over at the PHP manual, you can see that we weren’t alone. Refreshing the page would cause the mssql_connect function to fail. A [...]

Why Linux Servers?

Here at Kaweb, we have a variety of servers – both Windows and Linux based. If it wasn’t for the takeover of River Internet, we would have probably have stuck with Linux based servers for all our hosting. That said, we do think that having some Windows based servers has meant more flexibility in the [...]

Sites still in Classic ASP, why?

Classic ASP is not to be confused with ASP used in the .NET framework, the two are very different, I’m talking about Classic ASP here. Classic ASP, was first distributed with IIS (Microsoft’s Internet Information Services) back in 1996, two further releases followed in 1997 and 2000. It was Microsoft’s first server-side script that was [...]

Five Mac applications web development companies shouldn’t live without

Quicksilver The motto behind Blacktree’s Quicksilver application is “act without doing”. Whilst the technology to move the mouse pointer with out minds and write application code via telekinesis is still science fiction, Quicksilver brings this concept closer to reality. Quicksilver is a productivity tool. It allows me to find what I want, and find it [...]

Skip Intro? Why?

As someone who loves good looking, user friendly sites, why oh why do people still have the Skip Intro button on their site? If it’s there, what’s it saying? “Click here if you’re bored, while we throw a few logos at you from a file that has been so badly actionscripted that it’s eating your [...]

Flash vs HTML

What is Flash? Flash is a programme that creates a file (called an swf file) containing graphics and text that can provide far more movement, interactivity and sound than a standard HTML page. In order for a Flash (swf) file to be shown within a browser it must have the correct plug-in installed on the [...]

HTML Validator (based on Tidy and OpenSP) for Firefox / Mozilla

This plug-in (we all use Firefox 3.0 on Macs here, except for the token PCs we have to have of course) has helped our company set a benchmark for our coding practices. At a glance (the icon for this plug-in sits in the status bar of the browser), I can see if the source is [...]

New look website from Kaweb

Well, it’s finally happened. We’ve been on it ages, trying to squeeze it in around actual work, but the new Kaweb website finally went live this morning.

New Linux Server for Kaweb Shared Hosting Services

Kaweb have completed the migration of clients on to a new server. This upgrade will mean a general improvement in speed and performance for both web and mail services.