by Adam | May 30, 2014 | Blog
A website that never changes is less and less likely to be ranked by the search engines. When the spiders visit they look for fresh material and if nothing has changed the time before their next visit lengthens. This is one reason why it makes sense to have your...
by Adam | May 20, 2014 | Blog
If you’ve got a website that uses HTML (like WordPress) it can be useful to understand the basic programming commands so you don’t need to call in your web support people if you accidentally delete something and your layout goes wonky (a technical term!) Step one is...
by Adam | May 10, 2014 | Blog
There are many reasons that you may be asked to log in on a website, most of them are valid, but sometimes there seems to be no good reason. Here are a few of the valid reasons for having a log in on your website: Tracking: When you offer customers the opportunity to...
by Adam | Apr 30, 2014 | Blog
It’s astonishing how many businesses are still operating with an email address that shouts ‘amateur’! I’m talking about those emails that end in aol.com, gmail.com, btinternet.com, hotmail.com, outlook.com (the hotmail replacement), live.co.uk or one of the other...
by Adam | Apr 20, 2014 | Blog
When you sign up to a broadband deal you’ll find suppliers will be trying to entice you with promises of ‘super-fast’ download speeds, but how accurate are these numbers they’re spouting? Firstly, take notice of the words immediately before the numbers – are they...
by Adam | Apr 11, 2014 | Blog
Everyone is crying about the Heartbleed bug that has caused security problems for sites that use a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) to keep log in and credit card details secure. It’s not a virus or even a direct result of hacking, but simply a hole in the code that leaves...
by Adam | Mar 30, 2014 | Blog
Microsoft has made XP an ex-Operating System. As of 8th April they won’t be fixing any problems so your operating system is wide open. What does that mean to you? If you’re still using XP you won’t get any more updates to fix security issues. That means that if...
by Adam | Mar 20, 2014 | Blog
If you’ve ever bought a CD and then transferred it to iTunes so you can listen to it on your MP3 player or SmartPhone, the answer is ‘yes’. It may seem ridiculous that you’ve paid good money for music or an CD of an electronic book, only to find that you can only...
by Adam | Mar 10, 2014 | Blog
Now we’re all using mobile devices as extensions of our thought processes, it’s hard to imagine the days when only big businesses had computers. The jump from business computing to home computing, and from dial up to broadband has been an incredibly fast process....
by Adam | Feb 28, 2014 | Blog
When you’re watching TV on your laptop or tablet you may not be making much of a dent in your monthly data allowance right now – but things are about to change. With services like Netflix and Amazon becoming more and more common as a means of catching up with series...
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