Year: 2019

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Get the most value when it comes to business card marketing

Chris Grant (he/him) March 22, 2019 0 Comments
Your business cards are a powerful promotional tool. And they're so much more than just a way to hand out your contact information. Here are a few ways to get the most value when it comes to business card marketing: Think About Your Audience Demographics are an important component to any marketing campaign. Before designing your business cards, think about your target audience. It might help...
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WordPress now powers over a third of the top 10 million websites

Chris Grant (he/him) March 21, 2019 0 Comments
Our content management system of choice, WordPress, now powers over a third of the top 10 million sites on the web according to W3Techs. WordPress' market share has been growing steadily over the past few years, going from 29.9% just one year ago to 33.4% now. Stats in review In 2005, WordPress were celebrating 50,000 downloads. Six years later, in January 2011, WordPress was powering 13.1% of...
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WordPress 5.1.1 Patches Critical Vulnerability

Jenny O'Brien March 14, 2019 0 Comments
WordPress 5.1.1 was released yesterday evening with an important security update for a critical cross-site scripting vulnerability found in 5.1 and prior versions. The release post credited Simon Scannell of RIPS Technologies for discovering and reporting the vulnerability. Scannell published a post summarizing how an unauthenticated attacker could take over any WordPress site that has comments...
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[Infographic] Is Facebook becoming social media’s retirement home?

Chris Grant (he/him) March 14, 2019 0 Comments
Even though it might be a bit of a stretch to describe Facebook as social media's retirement home, the social network is experiencing an exodus of young people while increasing numbers of over 55s are signing up. Facebook is generally struggling to retain its user base and today, it has an estimated 15 million fewer U.S. users than it did in 2017. That's according to a report released...
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Former physicist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World-Wide Web

The world-wide-web turns 30, what’s next #ForTheWeb

Chris Grant (he/him) March 12, 2019 0 Comments
It all started rather innocently. In 1989, some scientists at CERN, the science research center in Switzerland, wanted to automatically share their information with fellow scientists working elsewhere in the world. Email already existed, but there was no easy way to transmit large amounts of data other than saving it on a disk and physically bringing it to another computer. So Berners-Lee, a...
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Say goodbye to Google+ from April 2nd, 2019

Chris Grant (he/him) March 11, 2019 0 Comments
If you’re wanting to read about why Google+ was a bad idea poorly executed, well, just Google “Google+” and you will be treated to more than enough diatribes about why this platform was an eight-year non-starter. But as for our blog, we’ll stick with the impact Google+ had on WordPress, Drupal and websites in general. First things first Firstly, make sure you act now to remove any...
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