We’ve all had these problems working with WordPress as designers where you are trying to format an article or something for a client and have everything lined up perfectly, publish the article, only to find out that WordPress has removed all your manual line-breaks! Fortunately there is a pretty simple fix, I had to edit [...]
5 Quick Tips to Encourage Customer Loyalty
Customer loyalty can never be mis-underestimated but it often is. It is a proven fact that it is much cheaper to re-market to your current customers and costs less in time and money to resell to them than to find new customers. Why do you think the multinationals bend over backwards with discounts when you [...]
Get an instant definition of any word in a pop up window
Need a quick definition of a word in Safari or an email? Yes, you probably already knew you could right-click on a highlighted word and bring up the OS X dictionary, but how about this? Press Command+Control+D while hovering over any word, and up pops the definition almost immediately. If you continue to hold down [...]
Merry Christmas from ChillyBin
Ho Ho Ho, As the Holiday Season is well and truly upon us, we here at ChillyBin Web Design & Consultancy find ourselves reflecting on the past year and on those who have helped to shape our business in a most significant way. We value our relationship with you and look forward to working with [...]
25 Mac Apps I Love
I’ve been using macs for quite a while now and one thing I love about the operating system is the wealth of well designed and useful software which is available. Windows has a large breadth of software available but since switching over in 2003 I’ve not had to go back to windows unless I am [...]
Find & Replace in MySQL
Somewhere between the backing-up and restoration of a clients MySQL WordPress database we picked up some strange characters. Rather than having to go through by hand to edit them out, we used a nice SQL snippet to do a full-database search and replace. update [table_name] set [field_name] = replace([field_name],’[string_to_find]‘,’[string_to_replace]‘); So in this case, to get [...]


