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Cheap and cheerful websites
When you’re just getting started the cost of a website can seem massive. In fact, when you’re working hard to grow your business even a revamp to keep your website...
Don’t just tick the box
When you’re working online you often get asked to confirm that you’ve read the terms and conditions before you can proceed. How many of us just tick the box without...
Bugs and other creepy-crawlies
There seem to have been a few very high-profile bugs that have been infesting the internet lately. First it was Heartbleed where the public sites, like social media and...
Can you remember your password?
When it was just one or two passwords it wasn’t a big deal, but these days we all have dozens of passwords, pin numbers and ‘secret words’ to remember. Given...
Money Games
A new phenomenon is raising its head – YOBSN – Your Own Branded Social Network. If you haven’t discovered this yet it’s an online business that offers you an...
Get your images working for you
Images bring website pages to life, but are yours working hard for you in the race to the top of the search engines? There are a number of places to source images: Your...
Back buttons should be banned!
OK – maybe not banned altogether, but something that you can opt into on your website – or not. Unfortunately, they are a browser feature, not directly attached to...
Come on slow coach!
Do you sometimes find your computer has slowed to a crawl – usually when you’re in the biggest hurry to get things done? It’s not unusual and can be for a whole host...
Big brother is watching you!
It’s a bit of a joke, especially since the TV show reversed the roles and we were all watching a few people sitting around doing not very much. However, Vodafone has...
App of the month
If you’ve ever forgotten a password, you’ll love this! OnePassword is a handy app that creates and stores your passwords for all the different places you need a ‘let...
Don’t be held to ransom
There has been quite a lot of press about the Gameover Zeus virus and most of the antivirus providers have been working overtime to find a means of blocking it. At the...
Night, night computer
When you’ve rushed out and forgotten to send your computer to sleep there are a couple of clever ways to do this remotely – one for Macs and one for PCs using Windows....
How to keep your website up-to-date
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...
HTML for dummies!
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...
Do you need a login on your website?
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...
What does your email address say about you?
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,...
Are you getting what you’re paying for?
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...
My heart bleeds for you
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...