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Web DevelopmentIndigo Tree at Frontier Conference 2016
Indigo Tree recently attended the first ever Frontier Conference held in London. The event was a mix of design & development, with some great insight into current development trends, some…
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NewsIndigo Tree Raises £405 for The Hospice of St Francis
On friday, 7th October, we teamed up with the Hospice of St Francis, supporting the Hospice’s ‘Go Purple’ fundraising event at a celebration to mark the launch of our exciting…
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Web DevelopmentIndigo Tree at WordCamp Manchester
The team recently attended WordCamp Manchester 2016, a great event attended by about 200 other developers. It was great to meet and network with other professionals in the field, and…
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NewsWe outgrew our old name
We outgrew our old name LT Consulting Solutions and have now become Indigo Tree.
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Web DevelopmentBackup with Windows & WP-CLI
Backup your WordPress websites using a simple easy to use batch script.
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Expert Opinion3 Reasons to Update your Website
So you’ve had your website designed, built and you’ve filled it up with content. It’s perfectly written for your target audience and you love the look and feel of the…
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Expert OpinionWhy Switch Your Website To HTTPS?
Nobody wants their website to be hacked, but if you sit in an coffee shop using their public WiFi to login to your HTTP website then you might as well…
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Web Developmenttarget=“_blank” and the Target Values of the <a> Tag
target=”_blank”. It’s a piece of code very commonly used to make an <a> tag open the href in a new window. But what is a target? Why is it blank?…
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Web Design, Web DevelopmentBootstrap Grid: Shortcodes for WordPress
Archived: At Indigo Tree we no longer use Bootstrap in our theme so the instructions in this post may no longer apply. In today’s age of mobile devices, responsive design…
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Web DesignUsing Images on your Website
If you’ve never used image editing software before, you’ll be in for a surprise when you come to save the files. Adobe Photoshop has over twenty formats to choose from,…
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Web DevelopmentUsing a Grid System for Responsive Web Development
A grid system is a collection of HTML/CSS parts that allow you to structure the user interface of your website and position the website’s components in chosen places. At its…
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Web DevelopmentHTML Content Tags – em, strong, i & b
Why we edit fonts and typefaces The environment we learn in influences the way we act in many ways, such as the accent we speak with, the order we write…
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Web DevelopmentDelete InfiniteWP Activity Log With Bash & SQL
Recently we decided to move our InfiniteWP installation over to a new server, which provided a good opportunity to clean out some historical data and schedule some regular backups. We’ve…
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Digital MarketingWhat is Content Marketing?
If you search for “content marketing” on Google, you’ll find an abundance of articles advocating its benefits and necessity, with some even featured on sites as large as Forbes and…
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Web DevelopmentAutomated WordPress Installation With Windows & WP CLI
Installing WordPress projects can seem repetitive at times. With the help of Windows we can perform an automated WordPress installation.
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Web DevelopmentAutomatic Dependency Injection With PHP’s Reflection API
Reflection is the ability to introspect and reverse-engineer functions, classes, methods, and interfaces during runtime. This makes it possible to find specific information about your code, such as a class’s…
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Web DevelopmentFantastic Four – Emmet / Zen (2 of 4)
Introduction Many text editors have their own way of allowing developers to code faster such as; keyboard shortcuts, snippets and auto complete, to name a few. Emmet takes a different…
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News, Web Design, Web DevelopmentFrom April 21st Google Will Rank Your Website Higher If It’s Mobile Friendly
“When it comes to search on mobile devices, users should get the most relevant and timely results, no matter if the information lives on mobile-friendly web pages or apps.” Google…
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Digital MarketingThe Ways You Can Use Video On A Website
There are many ways you can use video as part of your strategy to promote your goods or services. You can use it to introduce your product, with a product…
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Web DevelopmentLaravel 4: Using Request::is() With Named Routes
Recently I found myself trying to add an active css class to a navigation bar in a Laravel 4 project. Fortunately, much like everything in Laravel, there is a straightforward…
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NewsWomen’s Business Council Role Model
Last week I was absolutely delighted to receive notification from the Women’s Business Council (WBC) that they had awarded me the honorary title of ‘Role Model’ and published my story…
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Web DevelopmentAutomated WordPress Installation With Bash & WP CLI
Like most developers, we tend to start all our WordPress sites the same way. Add various plugins, install a starter theme, create pages and update various options. It’s rarely any different. After manually…
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Web DevelopmentFantastic Four – Bower (1 of 4)
Developing clean coded websites at speed has always been a challenge for developers. This article will span over four posts and hopefully will encourage the speedy developer in you to…
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Web DevelopmentGetting WP CLI Working With MAMP
WP CLI is a fantastic command-line tool for working with WordPress. You can set up new installs, install plugins, and update settings all from your terminal window. However, for MAMP…
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Web DesignMobile Website Or App?
At the moment for my business to consumer website clients, mobile visits are typically around 20% of all website visitors, so it is important to consider the experience of the…
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Web DesignAdd A Favicon To Your Website
Do you notice the favicon for the Indigo Tree website next to the url in your browser? It is the little square box with the icon and is also displayed…
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Digital MarketingOn Twitter Do You Know Your Hashtags From Your Mentions?
Twitter hashtags # hashtag is like a category, so when you use #hashtag in a tweet it becomes a link to all tweets that also use the same #hashtag in…
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Digital MarketingGet The Most Out Of Linkedin
People buy from people that they trust – one of the first steps is familiarity, so make sure you give your LinkedIn network every opportunity to experience ‘you’ and your business.…
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Digital MarketingWhy Use A QR Code?
A Quick Response (QR) code is a two-dimensional barcode that can be scanned by a camera on a smartphone and then automatically pull up websites, text, photos, videos and music.…
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Web DesignWhat Colours Should You Use On Your Website?
Colours can change our mood, in a blue room you may feel more relaxed and calm, whereas in a yellow room you may feel anxious. So what difference does colour…
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NewsIndigo Tree Presents At BNI Union Berkhamsted
On Thursday 22nd July, Louise Towler from Indigo Tree gave a 10-minute presentation at BNI Union in Berkhamsted. The presentation covered all aspects of her business, including: website development search…
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Expert OpinionWordPress 3 And Thesis Are A Winning Combination
Upgrading WordPress I have just upgraded the Indigo Tree website to WordPress 3. It was already using the theme Thesis 1.6 so I also took the opportunity to upgrade to…
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