The words that get the message accross

This guest blog was written by Lesley Morrissey, a commercial copywriter who specialises in website content and readability. Does your website get people interested quickly and keep them long enough to take action? That’s what it should do if it functions properly. Is...

The technical side of starting a company

When you’re starting a new company there’s so much to think about – the business structure, the product or service development, finding potential customers and financing the project until it’s making money. In today’s world the technology that supports your...

A happy, healthy, wealthy and profitable 2012

Here we go again – it’s a brand new year and everyone is making promises to achieve great things.  Goals are set – and many fall by the wayside even before January is out. Just like personal New Year Resolutions, your business goals need more than a...

Are you an expert?

If you’re in business you’re probably an expert in your core business. that’s how most small businesses start – the business owner leaves their employer and sets up their own business doing something they really enjoy doing. For us that’s...

Making Connections

As an IT company we know a lot about networking – we connect up our clients’ computers so that they can share information, communicate easily with each other and don’t reinvent the wheel by all operating in isolation. It makes good sense to do this...

Is your website out of style?

Like clothes, websites can date.  The designs that looked fresh and attractive, even five years ago, now look ‘old-fashioned’.  How does your site measure up to the ‘in style’ test? Over the years there have been fashions for: Splash pages – now really out of date and...

Danger! Virus at work

Many people think that viruses arrive via email, but today just as many viruses are hidden and ready to pounce on websites that you visit. Malicious software can be easily hidden in advertisements on even the most respected sites – even the London Stock Exchange has...

Shop safely for Christmas

With the shops gearing up for Christmas it can be tempting to avoid the crush and craziness and sit in front of the biggest shopping centre in the world – the internet. With a bit of planning, it can be very satisfying to sit in a nice warm room ticking items off your...

Copywriting – do I need help?

When you’re getting your website designed, you will be asked for ‘content’.  Very few web designers write copy – most expect you to provide it for them and won’t be able to complete your website until you’ve done that. If you’re lucky and work with a web designer that...

Technical confusion

After the last post about the misuse of the word ‘hacker’ a whole raft of other misused words raised its head!  Just to clarify a few technology terminology misapprehensions – or techie words that don’t mean what you thought! Screensaver – this is not the ‘wallpaper’...