If you are a Reseller you will be interested in our new Dedicated Server Reseller programme. The programme allows you to offer your customers a Control Panel to help them manage their Dedicated Server.

The white label Control Panel offers features such as rebooting servers or viewing bandwidth graphs.

Find out more:

http://www.heartinternet.co.uk/resell-dedicated-servers.shtml

We’re going to show you how to make expandable rounded corners with CSS. Using our method will require only 6 HTML tags and one background image (yes, ONE image for all 4 corners!). It also validates, works across all the major browsers, and looks great in your source code.

Download the full rounded corners tutorial below:
http://www.heartinternet.co.uk/blog/Rounded_Corners.zip

Making the corner images
One downside of most of the other methods for rounded corners is that you require multiple background images, one for each corner. With our method you only need one. If you take a look at corners.gif in the source files you’ll see how you need to set up your image. The basic premise is to create a full circle, chop it up into 4 segments and put each segment in the opposite corner to what it started in (top left would go into the bottom right, etc).
The last thing to do is put a white (or other colour) background behind the segments and then save the image.

HTML Code
<ul class=”roundedCornerWrapper”>
    <li class=”top”>
        <span></span>
    </li>
    <li class=”middle”>
        Heart Internet
    </li>
    <li class=”bottom”>
    <span></span>
    </li>
</ul>

Keeping the HTML short and valid is important for many reasons, so for the rounded corners we’re going to use an unordered list with some span elements. There may be shorter methods, but this is quick, easy, and validates.

The full tutorial including HTML, CSS and Graphics can be download via the link below:
http://www.heartinternet.co.uk/blog/Rounded_Corners.zip

 
We have just done a really special deal with Serif the software company based just a few miles away from us. We are offering the full and latest version of their popular web design package WebPlus X2 for FREE with the Heart Internet Home, Business or Reseller web hosting packages.

This really is a great piece of software, the guys at Serif gave us a demo of it a few months ago and we were surprised at how good it is. As well as being Vista certified the software has loads of very neat features. My particular favourite is the flash photo galleries, you just select your photos, choose the photo gallery look and feel and it’s done. The styles are right up-to-date, when you visit one of the galleries you think someone has worked on it for hours.
 
That’s just one of the features, I’ve also been trying out WebPlus Smart Objects as well. You can choose from phpBB forum, a blog, access control, mailing list, website poll and a few more. Again you just click your mouse a few times to setup the feature in your website.

The basics are well thought out also, like the way you can easily change site navigation just by dragging and dropping.

A couple of other hosting companies have offered WebPlus before but it has always been a cut down, older version. For example with one you can only publish five pages! We can’t see the point in that, it’s just frustrating, that’s why we are offering the full package - just like if you had bought it from the Serif website for £59.99.

If you are new to Heart Internet have a look at our web hosting packages at the link below, the ones that include Serif WebPlus are clearly marked:

http://www.heartinternet.co.uk/hosting-h.shtml

If you are an existing customer you also get WebPlus X2 for free (none of that “only for new customers” business here!), just login to our control panel and click the “Serif WebPlus” link:

https://customer.heartinternet.co.uk/manage/

We hope you enjoy using Serif WebPlus X2 - compliments of your friends at Heart Internet.

If you went onto the Heart Internet website yesterday you will have noticed that we have launched a range of Dedicated Servers. We have been asked many times for Dedicated Servers in the past but we wanted to make sure that we had the right product. We have agreed a deal with Dell to provide servers that are perfect for busy single sites, multi-site hosting or ideal if you have custom applications you wish to run.

As you would expect from us our servers are deployed in real time and you can reboot your server whenever you like. We have opted for two great specifications that are both capable of running many busy websites. Each server comes with unlimited bandwidth and you can choose from Linux CentOS, Ubuntu or Windows Web Server 2008.

Take a look at the link below to find out more:

http://www.heartinternet.co.uk/dedicated-servers.shtml

We have updated a number of the scripts you can install from eXtend to the latest version:
 

WordPress upgraded to V2.6.1

PHPCoin upgraded to V1.4.4

Joomla upgraded to V1.5.6

Locked Area Lite upgraded to V6.0

Mambo upgraded to V4.6.5

RoundCube upgraded to V0.2-aplha

Website Search upgraded to V1.5b

AWStats upgraded to V6.8

ZenCart upgraded to V1.3.8a

Openads upgraded to V2.6.0

Web Calendar upgraded to V2.9.3a

You might be interested to know that keeping the scripts we provide up-to-date is quite a big job, on average it takes 3 hours to update each one and on occasions when major changes are made to the script it can take a few days. Some scripts like Joomla and WordPress release a new version every few weeks!

Remember that if you would like to suggest a script to install you can do this from the feedback icon in our Control Panel.

Feedback forms are useful for individuals and businesses to receive information from their users/customers online. Using a form allows the user to interact with the website in a variety of ways; for example a “Quotation Form” to request a quote for a product/service online using pre-defined questions on your website or even a simple “Contact Us” form where the user can submit their query to you instantly. Using an embeddable form will also help reduce the amount of spam you receive, as your email address will not be directly published on the page.

Using Heart Internet’s powerful eXtend 2.0 control panel, you can create your very own feedback form within minutes using our FormMail script. It’s fully customisable so you can tailor the form to your requirements ­– you can even add drop down boxes and radio buttons. You will get instant feedback, as anything the user submits will be directly emailed to yourself. Normally, forms require some scripting knowledge, e.g. PHP, FormMail takes the headache of this away.

Login to your eXtend 2.0 control panel to use FormMail or explore it’s powerful features:http://www.extendcp.com/

For more information about the CGI scripts available from Heart Internet go to:

http://www.heartinternet.co.uk/cgiscripts-r.shtml

Have you tried PHP Coin? PHP Coin is a free package designed to help Resellers handle the payment process and orders of their clients.

PHP coin can help you with all of the following:

- Site content – Create and manage site data so that it can be viewed easily for future and existing customers.
- Order process – Provides an easy way of billing customers and collecting data and information about the customer with a configurable system and will provide a single “pay link” at the end of the process. Search for an order feature is also available.
- Invoices - Provides an easy method of invoicing existing and new clients.
- Client management – Keeps customer information profiles, ordering history, invoices, payment history and support help desk history. The search client feature is also available.
- Support – This provides a help desk ticket system. You can search and manage support tickets from one easy interface.

For more information on PHP Coin visit their website http://phpcoin.com/.

To install PHP Coin on your Heart Internet Reseller account login to your eXtend Control Panel.

For more information about the CGI scripts available from Heart Internet go to http://www.heartinternet.co.uk/cgiscripts-r.shtml