FCS Websites have just launched a new website brand offering equestrian web design to horsey businesses and organisations in the Nottingham area and beyond. We are using a modified WordPress setup to offer low cost websites to the equine industry after discovering that many local stables and riding schools don’t have a website, or have a badly made site that can’t be easily updated. All the horsey sites also run on our wind powered green web hosting.

The first two sites are already built with many more in the pipeline! Check out PonyTales.org.uk for equine events in the East Midlands.

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If you are trying to install the lovely Textpattern CMS on 1and1 hosting (you poor thing) then you’ll probably get the following error:

Error 500 - Internal server error
An internal server error has occured!
Please try again later.

Most hosts work with the default .htaccess file that comes with Textpattern 4.3, but 1and1 don’t for some reason. Easy fix though for a change – just uncomment the RewriteBase line after the ReWrite engine is turned on and make sure it’s right for your site. The following worked for me:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

Pow – now Textpattern works on 1and1 hosting with clean URLs.

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A new Textpattern site for Nottingham driving instructor Gavin Pinfold launched this week, hosted on our newly upgraded green web hosting server.

Most driving instructors seem to try and make their own sites which look awful, so we jazzed it up a bit with floating transparent graphics, pictures of his driving school car and some recently passed students ripping up their L plates

Gavin’s a top bloke, so if you are looking to have a laugh while having great value driving lessons in nottingham, drop him a line.

FCS Websites recently launched another of our heavily customised Zen Cart shops for a Nottingham business selling organic skincare, jewellery and baby products. The front end templates have been completely changed, social networking links and attractive icons added and the admin system has our Paramita theme applied to make it more pleasant to use.

We have had great feedback on the modified system and have recently added lightbox style popups for information links instead of standard pop up windows. With all these modifications made, Zen Cart is able to compete with commercial shopping cart systems in terms of usability and attractiveness – a far cry from the standard templates which came from the 1990s!

This is what makes our Zen Cart ecommerce sites a cut above the rest – customised templates, bespoke designs and a much more usable control panel. Contact FCS Websites to get a quote on a new or upgraded Zen Cart.