I’ve recently started looking at the ZEND framework for PHP and wanted to know how to install and run it on my Windows XAMMP development environment. Norman Kosmal has a nice post on how to do this here and the Zend folk have a nice quick-start guide here Share This Read Full Story

More and more websites are using WordPress as their back-end Content Management System due to its ease of use and excellent built-in search-engine-optimization. However, as with all software, WordPress does have bugs that are exploited to wreak havoc on your site. This blog article talks about upgrading your WordPress installation to ensure the latest security patches have been applied and of the latest WordPress vulnerability. Share This Read Full Story

A screen mockup in under a minute with Pencil Prototyping is the method by which a designer/developer mocks up pages/screens for a web site or some piece of software, to help the design and development team visualize the product. Sketching out on a piece of paper is generally best as at this stage of development there are likely to be many changes and sketching on paper is quick and cheap. However, if you need to create sketches that are a little more professional, e.g. for a presentation to... Read Full Story

Designing a new logo is difficult and it always helps to get a little inspiration by checking out the work of others;  Logopond has a gallery of over 2,500 logos - enough inspiration for anyone! This logo here and this one are two of my favorites… Share This Read Full Story

A web designer betting his friend that he could use social networking to make a ‘million of anything’ led to the creation of the website www.OneMillionGiraffes.com, which called for users to send the creator one million giraffes that they’ve made, either as models or drawings. Although he didn’t really think he’d get much of a response, within hours he’d got over 60 and by the end of the first day he had 134! In just over 2 months he’s received 134,2... Read Full Story

WordPress is a powerful publishing platform (this site uses it) and it seems to be going from strength to strength. This is partly due to the fact that WordPress is easy to hack i.e. it’s easy to re-write code to make the platform do what you want it to. Hacking core files, however, is problematic as the hacks are overwritten whenever you upgrade to a newer version, something that you need to do fairly often due to security holes being found and plugged and new features being introduced... Read Full Story

ZDnet.com reports on some Facebook apps that steal login details and spam victims’ friends lists. Some of the Facebook apps mentioned in the report are: Stream Posts Your Photos Birthday Invitations As always, when using social networking sites watch out what apps you use and ask yourself if you absolutely have to use every app that comes your way! Read the story here Share This Read Full Story

I recently launched my new site at www.ChandeshParekh.com - I felt the need to step away from the Cynergise name as I focussed primarily on Internet marketing on this site, however I wanted to be able to write about a lot of other topics. This doesn’t mean cynergise.com will die a slow, lonely death however; I’ll probably still update with relevant content though if you really want to keep up with me come along to www.ChandeshParekh.com. Share This Read Full Story

Over the last few weeks I’ve gotten increasingly busy (hence the lull in articles on this site) in customising certain Joomla components at work. One component I came across just last week is RokDownloads. This is a file-download management component for Joomla 1.5 and as the name suggests it rocks! Developed by the same team that create the brilliant templates for Joomla, RocketWerx (RocketTheme) I guess it’s not that much of a surprise what a quality component this is. I was usi... Read Full Story

There is a great need for a reliable, easy-to-configure and easy-to-use on-line payment system for small traders and Amazon has stepped into this arena with it’s own on-line payment system called Checkout by Amazon. Read more about it at C-Net… Share This Read Full Story