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New additions to our portfolio

August 17th, 2011, by Chris Ward


  • Hewitt Cycles

    Hewitt Cycles are highly respected and regarded by many as one of the UK’s top specialist road cycle shops. Their new content-managed website boasts an online shop which is fully integrated with an EPOS and back-office system.


  • Cranstons Quality Butchers

    Cranstons Quality Butchers have been producing award-winning Cumberland Sausage for nearly a hundred years. BF Internet worked with creative agency Cactus to deliver a brand new web site with superior bespoke ecommerce functionality wrapped up in an attractive design.


  • The Pod

    The Pod provide unique, well built, insulated wooden huts to be used as accommodation much in the way of a tent. An existing customer of ours, we relaunched their website with a new design and a great new Pod location finder.

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Ensuring your project runs smoothly

June 7th, 2011, by Chris Ward

HTML Code - Building your website

Having worked on web projects since 1996, we have a lot of experience of making a web project run swiftly and smoothly, whilst avoiding obstacles that cause delays. As an agency we constantly refine and perfect our process, but as our customer there are plenty of things you can do to help ensure the project is completed efficiently.

Any project – be it a house renovation, car purchase, or a bespoke web project – requires research, planning and strategy, all of which contribute to its success. These points should be considered in your planning now, to ensure your project is delivered successfully: Read the rest of this entry »


Taking Payments Online: The Options

May 25th, 2011, by Chris Ward

PGP - Pretty Good PrivacyIn the early years, BF Internet offered clients the option of taking credit card payments via through PGP encrypted emails. This allowed shoppers to submit their credit card details through a secure encrypted form to be processed in-store and offered reduced operating costs, whilst not requiring an internet merchant account.

The card payment industry has changed massively in recent years, with greater focus on online security and fraud prevention through the introduction of CV2 numbers, 3D-secure authentication and additional layers of fraud checking. These advances have meant that other payment processing options (e.g. PayPal, Sage Pay..) have become far superior to PGP, offering improved PCI-compliant fraud protection for the merchant whilst widespread implementation has minimised costs.

This article looks at 3 options available to you, to allow payments to be taken online:

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Free image editors – Prepare images for your website

May 28th, 2010, by Chris Ward

Free Image Editors

If you run a website with updatable content areas, such as an e-commerce platform or content management system, the chances are you’ve been called upon to edit or enhance your own images in order to make them ‘web friendly’. Although Adobe Photoshop has long been the industry standard for image manipulation among professionals, its costly nature and feature-laden interface are generally a turn-off for casual users – however, there are a plethora of free and useful alternatives available for download, a selection of which are outlined in this article.

These free image editors can be divided into two categories:

  • Downloadable Image Editing Software
  • Web-Based Image Editors

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New additions to our portfolio

September 21st, 2009, by Chris Ward

  • Freeride Snowboards
    Freeride Snowboards Freeride Snowboards stock an extensive range of boards, boots, bindings and clothing from all of the top brands in the snowboarding industry. All product information is fully synchronized with an in-store EPOS till system.

  • Solway Dory

    Solway Dory sailing canoes provide exhilarating sailing, yet are still easy to paddle when the wind drops. We created this beautiful brochure website where you can learn about the canoes available.

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