Month: December 2014

Have you secured your new shorter, sharper, .uk domain name?

Chris O'Brien December 30, 2014 0 Comments
​On 10 June 2014, Nominet (the organisation that manages UK domain names) made .uk domain names available for the first time – alongside .co.uk, .org.uk, .me.uk and so on. Nominet reserved over 10 million .uk domains for existing domain name holders. This means that, for example, as we held the registration of ‘obrienmedia.co.uk’ prior to 10th June 2014, Nominet reserved the right...
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Keep on top of your data with a business data dashboard

Chris O'Brien December 23, 2014 0 Comments
A business data dashboard is an easy to read, one page summary of business information such as sales figures, contact centre performance, or customer growth to name a few. There are many advantages to making your business data available in this way, whether it's to a closed group of key stakeholders or to your whole business through the use of dashboard web apps or real time data shown on TV...
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Responsive design makes Harefield Archers look good on any device

Chris O'Brien December 19, 2014 0 Comments
We've been busy putting the finishing touches to a lot of web development projects recently, including a new site incorporating responsive design elements developed for Harefield Archers. The new website, based on the Drupal content management system, incorporated a gallery, blog, events calendar and social media integration that used responsive design techniques to adapt to the screen size...
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We’re taking steps to block SEMalt and referrer spam from our hosting and analytics platforms

Chris O'Brien December 18, 2014 0 Comments
Over the past few months we've been seeing an ever increasing amount of "automated" and botnet generated referrer spam coming into websites hosted on our hosting platform and onto sites that we manage on other hosting services on behalf of our customers. This is a global problem affecting websites regardless of the type of site as the "visits" are all automated and generated randomly - so if...
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Google now labels mobile-friendly websites in search results

Chris O'Brien December 13, 2014 0 Comments
Google have recently started to indicate whether websites are optimised for mobile visitors when displaying sites on search results pages served to mobile users.  Google have been testing out different methods of indicating whether a website is mobile compatible over recent months, including icons and various text based labels (some indicating that a site was mobile compatible and some...
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Get 10% off business print essentials on Small Business Saturday 2014!

Chris O'Brien December 06, 2014 0 Comments
 Small Business Saturday, a day celebrating small businesses up and down the country, is now in it's 2nd year and we’ve got an even better offer this year with 10% off all business print orders over £40 placed on the 6th December 2014.   To get your discount just order online via our Print Shop and use code SBS2014 at the checkout - your discount will...
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