JS Workwear - A Joomla Site

Comspec have recently completed another ecommerce store for one of our clients www.JSWorkwear.co.uk

This is a Joomla 1.5 site, with a Virtuemart ecommerce store added.

JS Workwear wanted a simple, easily navigated site, which was Search Engine friendly, and could be easily updated themselves.

Comspec provided such a site, with a couple of noteable addons:

• Customised forms for ‘quotation requests’, which allowed users to upload their artwork for embroidery or printing.
• A gallery, showing some samples of work at various stages of embroidery.

We used our sister site www.DesignerExpress.co.uk (currently under construction) to have a banner designed for the top of this new site - using a modified version of the JS Workwear logo.

JS Workwear provide a range of the following goods:

• Workwear (hi visibility, boots, safety wear, etc)
• Corporate Wear (suits, blouses, shirts, etc)
• Sportswear (football kits, tracksuits, bags, shirts, etc)
• Accessories (Caps, Bags, etc)
• Catering Wear (Chef’s jackets, trousers, aprons, etc)

They also wanted a site which showed their quality embroidery and printing services.

This site will be an ongoing project over the coming months, with more and more content added as pictures are taken and jobs completed.

We would like to wish JS Workwear every success in their venture into the World Wide Web with their already well-established range of products and services.

We managed to get our new, updated version of www.Comspec-Dropshipping.co.uk launched this week.

The site has been running for a full year, and we have revamped the whole thing.

This site is designed to provide a ‘dropshipping’ service to our approved resellers, full details of which can be found on the site.

New features include:

• A technical/sales support forum
• A wider product reange (to include components, etc)
• Further product details, with some specification/product data sheets
• Carriage now done by weight, and each product has a weight displayed
• Cleaner, more secure site
• Zip files of product pics available on the forum

We are working on even greater functionality of the site over the coming months, to include:

• CSV Exporting of product details
• Additional product ranges
• Custom PC Builder

Please contact us through the site if you have any queries.

Most of us have heard of Broadband internet, but how many of us have actually sat down and thought what was best for our job, rather than just

A report in today’s BBC News Online suggests that we will all be getting a download for our operating systems to try to head off a major internet security breach, discovered by accident.

The breach would allow criminals to redirect internet users to fake websites, in an attempt to prise private information from them. The research into a ‘fix’ has been going on in private for about 6 months, since the flaw was discovered in the DNS (Domain Name system).

Continue reading “Internet security breach is tackled”

Well, today was the day that Mozilla decided to release Firefox 3, the eagerly awaited free web browser, with an ever-increasing following.

Continue reading “Firefox 3 is finally here !”

Well, we have been test-driving Firefox version 3 for the past week or so, and it is great. A vastly improved web browser than its predecessor, which I have been using for quite some time very happily (until now).

Continue reading “Firefox 3 is just around the corner”

We have had a customer who has been trying to get their Sky Broadband activated for the past two weeks. We have been dealing with Sky ourselves, on their behalf, to try to resolve the issue.

To be fair to the last Sky technical support person I dealt with (a NI guy as it happens), they have finally come clean and explained that everything I have been told over the last 10 days is nonsense, and Sky cannot actually provide broadband, because the customer is 10Km away from the nearest BT exchange. They have spent the past 10 days running tests, and changing cabling between Sky’s equipment and BT’s at the exchange, all to no avail. Continue reading “Ensure you know how far you are from the BT exchange”

A quick note to all of our domestic customers who currently run AVG Free (Anti-virus) software on their PC. AVG Free version 8.0 is out and is a much better solution than the version you currently have.

Dell issued a blog post yesterday (Thursday 8th May) apologising to customers about a ‘cock up’ they made with the keyboards on the Vostro 1310 and 1510 models. This problem will affect a number of these machines distributed in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Continue reading “Dell Vostro European keyboard problem on 1310 & 1510 models”

Rock specialise in high-spec laptops for the gaming sector, but have fallen into administration.

They are citing the following reasons:

• Cashflow difficulties as a result of ’stock misappropriation’ by a former employee
• Lowering of credit limits by suppliers
• Lack of regular supply of key components

The administrators (Deloitte) are still hopeful that they will be able to sell the business as a growing concern, but at the minute the future for Rock looks bleak.

The full story can be read HERE

Let’s hope that the company can be sold, and whoever buys them realise the niche they currently have with their high-quality, high-spec laptops.