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As part of a recent project for BRAMM, the British Register of Accredited Memorial Masons, we were required to provide a radius based geographical search feature. The client wanted users to be able to search for memorial masons within a specified distance of their chosen location, the location being any UK town or Postcode. While…
Keith Walton Brickwork, based in Nelson near Burnley Lancashire, are a highly experienced masonry company that specialises in large scale builds.
Sorry we’ve been quiet but we’ve been tucked away bringing a number of larger projects to completion. Firstly there’s a new bespoke software system for Manchester based Lowry Capital, who provide funding to property developers and investors. We’ve written a brief case study on this project, please take a look. Secondly there’s a sizeable web…
Lowry Capital, based in Manchester, with offices in Glasgow, provide fast funding to developers and investors for property projects throughout the UK.
Are you using Gmail from Google to send emails using your company domain name? We find many do as it’s a free alternative to Microsoft’s Outlook 365 service. If so, do you have it set up correctly? It’s well worth checking everything is in order as Google recently started showing warning messages to recipients stating…
Some good news… for us… as bespoke software developers of web based software systems. Browser compatibly issues have long since been an active issue ever since we starting developing software solutions for the web. Whilst we endeavour to develop our bespoke software solutions to adhere to a set of web standards, we occasionally come across…
If you have a website or online software system you’ve probably heard your developer mention these acronyms, HTTP, SSL and HTTPS. Let’s start off with the basics… When you visit a website you may have noticed that the web browser prepends http:// to the web address, for example, https://www.cbssolutions.co.uk. HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol,…
Every so often we are asked to write bespoke software which just begs to have real-time updates and popup notifications, in some solutions it’s a must have requirement and in others it’s a nice to have feature. So, what do we mean by a real-time update and popup notification? Consider the following two scenarios: You…
Stevenson Memorials are a multi-generation family business working in the Memorial industry with branches located in Blackburn and Blackpool.
Chetham’s School of Music is a prestigious music school in the centre of Manchester. They contacted us with a bespoke software requirement…