Want-a-site is pleased to announce the launch of onepoundbooks.com. This ecommerce site sells and entire range of second hand books for just £1, (one pound sterling)

As the world wide recession bites, more busineses are tempted to forego the option of a tailor made web site from a professional web designer and consider the cheaper, "build your own site" template based options available on-line.
Promotional sites that promise high quality, fully functioning websites up and running in minutes at a very low cost are certainly going to catch the eye of any business looking to cut costs during the so called "credit crunch", but could it be a false economy?

A little self indulgent I know, but I have recently used a bit of spare time to re-design my own web design portfolio and promotion site.

Like most web designers, I have tended to neglect my own site, in preference for getting on with jobs for paying customers, but it was beginning to become something of an embarrassment!

I always strive to create standards compliant sites for clients, and wherever possible, using divs and css rather than tables. Tables were once the standard fare of all websites, but with the flexibility of css to allow us to separate content from style, tables are generally frowned upon these days.

A question often asked by small to medium businesses thinking of expanding on to the web for the first time, and increasingly pondered in the light of cost cutting necessities due the credit crunch.

Do small to medium businesses really need a website? Is a website a luxury that can be done without when cash flow is tight, or is it really an essential element in creating new trade and bringing in fresh custom?

If your oscommerce store is a particularly large one, and you are constantly adding new ranges of products, ading specials and lots of different products attributes, you will eventually encounter the 1104 MAX_JOIN_SIZE error on your product listing pages.

This is somethng I recently came across myself on a site with around 1500 individual products with dozens of associated product attribute variations