Dressing up your website

Technical people talk about CSS when they’re discussing your website, but what on earth are they on about? CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets; are you any wiser?  No?  Well, think of it as a wardrobe for your website.  Style sheets take a naked website (that would...

QR codes – more than interesting artwork!

If you’ve seen those square patterned black and white boxes on websites, business cards, adverts and even on your TV screen and wondered what they are – here’s the answer! These are known as quick recognition (QR) codes – and can be scanned in a similar way to a bar...

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...