The benefits of blogging for business

Why your business should be blogging to stay connected with your customers

As free advertising goes, a blog can be used very successfully to convey your personal or professional opinion on any type of topic. The term "blog" is an abbreviated form of "web log" and is simply a means of writing what flows through your mind. In fact you can include just about anything that streams through your mind. In many cases the blog's discussion depends on the theme of a web site or...
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Some great new Outlook 2016 features just landed for Office 365 subscribers

Some great new Outlook 2016 features just landed for Office 365 subscribers

If you're a Microsoft Office 365 subscriber you'll regularly get new and improved Office 2016 features. Take a look below to see the great new features available to you today. A smarter To: line When you click the To: line to address a message, we suggest recipients you’re likely to choose. Plus, you can see their picture so you know you’re sending to the right person. Cloud attachments just...
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Is your website using HTTPS?

Google’s efforts with Chrome to encourage the web’s transition to HTTPS are beginning to pay off. The company has now announced plans to extend the effort with the “Not secure” badge scheduled to show up on more HTTP pages. With version 56 in January, Chrome began marking HTTP sites with password or credit card fields as “Not secure” in the address bar. As a result, Google...
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Responsive, mobile friendly, brochure website for Swindon based Fixed Locally

We were approached by Steve Costello, of Swindon computer repair and recycling business Fixed Locally, to develop an easy to use fully responsive website for his new business venture. We created an easy to manage WordPress based website, based around a single page structure for the homepage containing sections for the essential information about Fixed Locally and their computer repair...
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Mobile friendly responsive website for South Asian Performing Arts Centre

SAPAC (South Asian Performing Arts Centre) are a Swindon based community group whose aim is to inspire the people of Swindon to appreciate and enjoy diversity in culture by offering quality performances by professional artists in classic, folk and contemporary music, dance and theatre. We began working with SAPAC in 2013, when we designed and built their first website. Fast-forward to July 2017...
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What are your options for professional website hosting?

Most businesses today require an online presence and to get that online presence, one needs to create a website and host it. Website hosting refers to the term where your website is hosted on a server so that it can be viewed by people world over. To get people to come your website you need to get it hosted. There are many professional website hosting companies who provide a wide range of hosting...
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Content Management System for your website

In this article we will list the most important things to look for in a Content Management System (CMS). A CMS is crucial for small businesses and hobbyists looking to quickly create a professional looking website with advanced features such as site-wide search, article directory, blogging, document management, frequently asked questions, and message boards. Plus, a CMS usually provides regular...
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WordPress powers over 25% of the web. Here’s why WordPress is right for you.

Here is why WordPress is the right choice for your next website

Originally launched in 2003, WordPress has become perhaps the most popular content management system (CMS) in the world. Today, WordPress is used by more than 25% of websites and, according to WordPress, more than 409 million people view more than 23.6 billion pages each month and users produce 69.5 million new posts and 46.8 million new comments every month. So why is WordPress the...
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Keeping your website content up-to-date

A website that is current and has everything that the visitor is looking for is bound to achieve success in terms of popularity and search engine ranking. This is the reason why businesses that take their online presence seriously, and invest in highly professional and result oriented website design that yields them amazing results in the beginning. However, every organisation grows over the...
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What is a Content Management System (CMS)?

First, a little history. In the beginning, there was plain old HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) which is the language used to create web pages. Next, there was CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) which gave developers a way to format all the pages in a website with one file so that the look and feel was consistent from page to page. Finally, there was the ability to connect these together through a...
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