We’ve known Farnborough’s local print lab, 2020 Photographic, since 2002 and have been hosting their website since 2012. Today we launched their rebuilt website, replacing the original hand-built HTML site with a WordPress CMS instead. Now North East Hampshire’s photo printing lab can manage their content so much more easily, being able to add new […]
Setting up a Drupal 7 website for the very first time, one of the features that is bound to make website owners nervous is visibility of the default login block. By leaving an obvious and very public path to login to your website you are inviting unwanted logins. There is a simple solution for Drupal
For over a decade our small business customers have been happy with a few hundred Megabytes of web space and a number of POP3 email accounts. Recently, however, our clients have been asking for more from their email accounts. With the rise of the smartphone (61% of UK phone owners have a smartphone and hence
OMG! Have you seen the Ship My Pants ad? The latest online advert from US department store retailer Kmart is absolutely hilarious. Just watch and listen… Isn’t that great? It’s such a cheeky advert and really clever marketing. Here’s the transcript: Dad: “Ship my pants… right here? Ship my pants? You’re kidding?” Store clerk: “You
Freemium tools are great and when you run a server with numerous client websites on it a free uptime monitoring tool is very welcome; And this latest tool, UptimeRobot is excellent. A few years back, Shawn Hogan from Digital Point had a ThinkGeek Ambient Orb which alerted him to when his server’s load went beyond a
A friend of mine has decided that he wants to be a web designer and has enrolled in a course to learn the basics of web design. It’s been really interesting getting feedback from him on how people regard web design these days and the most common thing he reports back about is that everybody
With the new post over at the Google AdSense blog could this be a sign that Made For AdSense (MFA) websites are dead? The key points that Google makes are: Ads shouldn’t be placed under a title or section heading in a way that implies that the ads are not ads. For example, ads shouldn’t
We’ve been clamouring for Google to revise the Google Webmaster Tools for some time now, and taking the webmaster tools user survey seems to be paying dividends. The toolset so far has been fairly simple but it looks like Google are listening to webmasters and putting out some really useful, really helpful new webmaster tools. I noticed yesterday
A new client has asked me for some help with their website and part of the task is to assist them with their SEO. Their current SEO company have submitted their URL to a few dozen search engines and are apparently re-submitting every month for a fee of £40. For this £40 my client receives
Dreamweaver 8 has got so many little features that make coding easier. I’m in the process of converting a flat HTML website into something more palatable for the Joomla! CMS I’m using. The old website has something like 1500+ pages of HTML with some articles being MANY pages long… e.g. there’s one article that consists of 34
