Welcome to Saunders Consultants

Saunders Consultants provides Information Technology consultancy, software development and Web design & development services for individuals and organisations of all sizes.

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Our aim is to deliver effective technological solutions, tailored to the specific needs of our clients. We provide comprehensive advice right from the initial (and free) consultation through to the delivery of the final application. We can provide help and guidance in a number of areas:

By fully understanding the needs of our clients, we strive to produce appropriate and robust solutions, geared to produce tangible results.

Our flexible approach to problem solving allows us to adopt solutions that are tried and tested, cutting edge or anywhere in between, the only limit on what we can do is your imagination.

Whatever your requirements we at Saunders Consultants can craft a solution that will suit your needs and your budget.


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Improve Pagerank: Custom Link Love For Wordpress Comments Plugin

Recent announcements with the way Google Pagerank flows via nofollow links at Google has bloggers all a flutter. I asked Marty if he could sit down and modify a Wordpress plugin that basically rewarded regular contributers with a link, but removed the actual link from comments from those that haven’t bothered to continue participating on your blog past that first comment.

Reputation Thesis Skin for Wordpress Thesis Theme | Ignite Social Media

The purpose of the Reputation Skin is to give users the ability to get a professional look and feel for their personal site, with the click of a few buttons. Personal branding and reputation management is an extremely important aspect to marketing yourself in today's job climate. The aim of this skin is to make it very easy to get a look and feel that features a user and their subsequent user profiles across the web.

Web 3.0: The Government Strikes Back, Part One

The Federal Trade Commission wants to more tightly regulate what bloggers and website owners say on their sites about products and services. They even want to regulate how we link to other websites. Is this consumer protection or over-the-top government intervention where little is needed?

Bit.ly’s Grand Plans, And Their Inevitable Clash With Digg: Bitly Now

URL shortener and analytics service Bit.ly has been working on a new set of products, being referred to as "Bit.ly Now" internally, which will define the next stage of the company's growth. The company confirmed these plans to us today. The services will include both a destination website as well as a distributed service via expansions to the Bit.ly API.

Adding Custom Default Gravatars to Your Blog

You may have noticed that the default avatar on the Outspoken blog for folks not registered with Gravatar is not the typical default Gravatars. Instead, it's a grayed out replica of the bullhorn in the Outspoken logo. Quite a few folks have asked me how we've done this, so I figured I’d give a mini tutorial for both regular theme users and Thesis users.