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You aren't using something like Cloudflare are you? I often forget to to switch to dev mode and Cloudflare cache just about everything, bless them.

The entire system is about custom everything, basically!

ummm - cost of a 100 channel analogue recording desk back then? Oh, around £250,000 or so, I would guess - plus the crane to lift it in through the window, of course.

Oh, water on electrics! That was a constant problem with recording desks - they don't like cups of tea being spilt on them, or worse still, cola! Years ago, with an ancient analogue desk, a band went out for lunch, accidently knocking over a full bottle of coke on their way passed. Over lunch it flooded most of the desk. then dried leaving a sticky residue over all the circuit boards. It took 5 of us a week to take the entire desk apart, wash all the boards in warm water and then gently dry them with hair dryers set on on cool. The record company was charged full rate for or every minute of it!

I have opened it as an issue on github for Foundation - there may be an intentional reason why it is not there which I haven't grasped!

Yes, prepros and scout (another version) has everything rolled in, which makes it a whole lot easier and you don't need to mess around with compass and ruby separately. Prepros also will work with less at the same time and has a few other rather neat features. Scout is a bit more basic and only works for sass.

I use Prepros and then just get it to watch the right directory. So, with Foundation 5, for instance, I have all the scss files in a directory called scss within templates. And then that outputs to a foundation.css in a css directory. And that is about it. Really, it has nothing to do with ProcessWire at all, other than with PW all your template work needs to be inside /site/templates/ so that is where you need to do it all. If you go look at my foundation profile: https://processwire.com/talk/topic/5293-zurb-foundation-5-profiles/ You dont need to install the entire profile, but if you look at the templates folder, all the foundation bits are all ready to go, with all the scss files.

Ummm ... how did he actually manage this?

Its not a bad start as a good overview, though look for other opinions too. He talks quite a lot about localisation and google places too, which seems to be very important if a company gets a lot of its work locally.

I think you need to do some serious reading - this forum is too limited for your questions. There is no simple answer - for instance, the quality of the writing has a huge impact. You can fill your front page text full of key words which will help in your search engine placement, but if the writing is not good, people wont actually stick around to read the rest of your website. Thousands of visits is no good if you have 100% bounce rate. And as for blogs and so on - that is a huge subject!

No, Yahoo and Bing stopped using them years ago. The description tag is the main meta used, with the title tag. The recommendation is that the description should be less than 160 characters and should read well. The title less than 60 characters. But the most important place for SEO is within the content of your page itself. I found this book a reasonable read: http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Get-Top-Google-including-ebook/dp/B0076XVNM8/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1397561096&sr=1-4&keywords=search+engine+optimization Though you can get most of that info from just searching. Nice to have it in one place though. He avoids SEO tricks that might get undermined by the next Google update.

meta keywords are not really used by search engines any more - google stopped a few years ago. I read them on competitors sites to see what they think are important keywords ....

It looks like there is something in the foundation css which is removing the padding from menu items - bear in mind that I have compiled the foundation.css file from the scss files, so it may be in there. I don't want to correct it if that is the case, however, as I am trying to use those files unchanged EDIT: Okay, it is missing a line-height value. Not sure why yet. EDIT 2: Okay, in _top-bar.scss there is this line missing from line 492 and probably a couple of other places: line-height: $topbar-height; That seems to be the problem

Okay, I have updated the profile to 5.2.2 and got rid of a lot of the legacy bits, like that old JQuery. It is now a bit easier to understand. One oddity is that it has affected the top bar menu - the font looks a bit small and out of place, but I cannot work out why for the life of me.

Yeah, sorry, not had time to update it, but it should just copy over since it is only a minor upgrade.

I am working on that. Ummm ... slowly.

You can add as many fields as you wish to any template. So you could create the following text fields, for example: menu_title - for you menus head_title - for you <title> tag snippet_title - for a listing somewhere main_title - for the actual page And so on, and then just use them as you wish. For instance, you could put <title><?=$page->head_title ?></title> in your head html. I strongly suggest you do a couple of the tutorials on the wiki so that you understand a little more how it all works and then it will become clear: http://wiki.processwire.com/index.php/Main_Page Note: a couple of mine are getting a bit out of date, but they will still get you started.

Oh, php and processwire are rather intimately connected, I would say. I am certainly not an expert, but the way I work is that where I am putting together my PW output within a function, then I will work much as you describe $out = ""; $out .="<h1 class='myclass'>{$page->title}</h1>"; echo $out; Those functions frequently sit in an included file somewhere. When I write into a template, however, then I will often just break into php mid markup as you have done. My useless rule of thumb tends to be "however I do it, make sure it is really, really obvious so that when I come back to it next week, I can work out what I was up to!" But then, only I have to read my code. If I was working with someone else, I should probably be more regimented.

I think I just put the tape box in front of him. He would need the info from it for the programme log. I resisted the temptation to look.

Yes, I would go for page per image with a specific template too. Partly because this gives the freedom of adding all kinds of information, but also in the template you can extract the image meta that the photographer will have as part of his images by default and use it for things like page metadata or simply for display purposes. Somewhere, in the depths of time I had a baby PHP script that pulled all that data from an image - I would think there are loads kicking around.

General rule of thumb in marketing is "never disappoint." If you cannot man support or sales 24/7, don't add something that looks like you can and then "dissapoint" by asking people to leave a message. That is very much a techy sort of solution, rather than addressing the realities of human communications. In this situation you need to offer a form of communication that fits with the company size. So, perhaps, a nice pop up contact form from the bottom of the browser that says "Please leave a detailed message and we will respond to you fully during our business hours. If you need to talk to us in detail, leave a phone number and we will be happy to call you. Let us know a time that would suit you best." The most important thing when communicating is not so much that you will communicate at any time, but rather that you will be very HAPPY to communicate and answer all questions IN DETAIL. That sounds like you care about your custom and treats it seriously. You score far better points with that than with trying to sound immediate and awake at all hours. Think of a good old fashioned shop. Would you rather a shop that was open 24 hours fronted with meaningless personnel who wait for you to choose then just take your money, or would you rather wait till a shop opened but was manned by someone who smiled and then tried to fund out exactly what you need?

Your phone number Or even something like Skype, or a call back button, etc Actually, I am not being facetious, one of the biggest mistakes company's make is in assuming that communications that require people to type can adequately replace more natural communications like voice or (better still) meeting in the flesh. This shows an alarming lack of understanding about human beings. There is a really good reason why we, as an animal, have not just a highly developed speech centre, but an incredibly developed and perceptive process of analysing voice. Encouraging customers to actually talk to you properly can increase sales potential and improve customer relations enormously - it is why more and more fraudulent scams are being conducted using call centres. It is much easier to be convincing using voice that using text.

Thoroughly enjoying that site - it does remind me of some silly requests I have had in sound studios over the years. * "Can we have the sound of headlights sweeping across a window?" * "I need a background atmosphere of two people sitting on a sofa." To which I replied, "doing what?" * "Can we lower the first violins slightly?" The radio producer/client asked me after I had played back a recently discovered, unbelievably rare mono recording of Dmitri Shostakovich conducting one of his OWN works in Moscow when he was young. The recording had been brought to me by a friend who was acting as an archivist for a library of recordings that had been kept hidden away by the Soviets. He thought it would suit this programme. "I cant lower the strings in an already mixed recording," I pointed out. "And anyway, even if I could, I don't think it would be right to do so." "Trust me," said the vain producer. "I know a lot more about Shostakovich than who ever that idiot is who is conducting!"

Okay, got to go for a name drop here. I was working on the final soundtrack for the video release of Cameron MacKintosh's live show, "Hey, Mr Producer" (Brilliant show, by the way) It had been a difficult job - David, who had been mixing the music tracks, had had to get a few of the stars back in to redub their bits .... in tune! We were getting close to deadline and because of the remixes, I had only just received the last tracks and was resyncing them to the picture and rebuilding the audience sound track. Cameron's PA phoned. "Cameron says for you to do an all nighter to get it finished." I replied, "I can't do that as I have another session in the morning - I need to have had some sleep." PA: "You realise who Cameron is and how rich he is?" "I still can't - doing sound on no sleep is unfair to the client." "So, who is the other client that is so much more important than Cameron MacKintosh? Can we pay them off?" "We are recording an interview with the chairman of Microsoft." There was a long silence on the other end of the phone. So I added: "Would you like their phone number or shall we reconvene tomorrow afternoon?" Even being rich and famous is relative.

One of the studios I used to work in had a very large and unusually bright control room with a high ceiling and big, victorian windows. In the middle of the control room was a huge recording desk with a quite stupid amount of channels, buttons, potentiometers and flashing lights. Following a couple of years of inane comments I put a big sign on the wall which read: "Yes, I do know what every knob does and no, it is nothing like Concorde"