A couple of years ago, we wrote about the rise of Adaptive devices and, sort of, the death of walled-in app-stores. Whilst not coming anytime soon, the drive is certainly there. When Apple created the whole App Store approach in 2008, responsive/adaptive design was just a glimmer in the eye of a handful of CSS […]
We pride ourselves as being a reet friendly bunch. After 15+ years, 50 staffers and 500 clients we’ve built a reputation as being a friendly place to work – some call it cool. Ok, not everyone will get on with us or relish our sense of humour but the vast majority do. It’s borne out […]
WordPress is actually a very secure and stable web framework, it’s users that tend to make a hash of things by sharing logins, adding plugins with security holes and generally making a mess of things. Having said that, there are a number of standard things that you should be aware of and carry out to […]
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Thanks to our partners at @WPEngine, the roll-out to WordPress 3.8 is now completed on the first tranche of supported clients. Next up are the oddities, the one-offs and those clients that host and manage their own environments. The level of WordPress support we get from WPE is really first class and we’re always happy […]
I came across this video, by Shimi Cohen. Loosely based on an article “The Invention of loneliness“, it explores the concept of connections over conversations that pervades the current social media world. The paradox is thus; the more connections we have, the less connected we become. The idea that teenagers collect people and shun interaction […]
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If you are a grand overseer of networks, people or objects then you’ll need lots of screens, a huge keyboard and a tower of PC power. Assuming you are not trying to control the world, or your company’s IT infrastructure then you probably don’t need a PC. Or even a laptop. There are very few […]
(AKA: “maybe WordPress doesn’t suit everybody”) We’d argue the case that you should be using WordPress because of open-source standards, mobile-optimisation, support, security & scaling and guaranteed long-term adoption. And we’d be right, of sorts. If you cared. These are all admirable, providing an irrefutable argument that concludes with “… and therefore you’d have to […]
WordPress development communities are springing up everywhere, like bluebells in spring. Secretly we knew they existed, Mike Little’s famous Stockport group (he co-founded WordPress) and Keith Devon’s “WordPress London” monthly meetup. They’ve all been around for years along with a few hundred WordCamps – the larger, more coordinated gatherings of WordPress think-alikes in almost every […]
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Content is king, SEO is dead and the world is going WordPress crazy. Or so the pundits says, but what are the actual numbers behind this? The first shocker is that almost two thirds of websites use NO content management system(CMS). Wow! That’s a lot of hand-built legacy sites that are going to need re-building […]
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Drafting behind the meteoric rise of WordPress, like a line of tightly-packed race cars, is an eclectic mix of WordPress companies, all vying for your business. Despite WordPress being around for about 10 years, it’s adoption as the digital development platform of choice has only been cemented in the last couple of years. It’s adoption […]
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It’s estimated that over 90% of UK businesses over £5m turnover are “locked-in” to their current web development company. In a world of open source and digital portability this is rather staggering. And worrying. A new world of fast deployment and agile delivery is opening the way for greater supplier collaboration and portability yet so […]
No, I don’t mean mine – which seems to have taken leave of its senses and only boots once every 4 times. It’s done 350 “power cycles” and been around the world at least twice since late 2011. The PC was king until 2 years ago, losing its crown to the laptop against all the […]
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The first major WordPress update of 2014 is now underway after Automattic announced the release of version 3.8 of WordPress during December. As a professional WordPress development company we don’t throw out new WordPress updates without thoroughly checking them first and we’re in the final phases of completing this quality step. What does this mean? […]
After scoring a commendable 6 out of 10 for my last lot of predictions, I thought I’d have a crack at 2014. So here goes, my view of what will be the game changers in 2014. Privacy. Or rather the death of anonymity and the subsequent paranoid backlash that will see an explosion in secure […]
We might just have seen the biggest change in personal computing since IBM launched the original PC over 30 years ago. The tablet market was effectively created in April 2010 with the launch of the iPad by Apple. No one really used them and for the first year they weren’t taken seriously as a business […]
Rather bravely, I made some predictions in 2011 about where the web and digital technology was going. Well, only 3 years have passed so let’s pull ’em out of the archive and see what is what. 1. Tablet computing will be huge. Woot! Got that one right, even predicted it as a must-have pressy and […]
As one of the fastest growing WordPress Development companies in Europe, we’re proud and eager to embrace location independence – after all WordPress themselves operate entirely without regard to location. In fact, WordPress only exists because of remote working. I suppose we are lucky to be a pure digital business, after all you don’t need […]
December was a typically quiet month for client support, despite this a couple of rogue tickets and the skelteton support over Xmas dropped our response time to 23.5hrs. This is just outside our target response time of 20hrs but inside the WordPress Development companies average of 24hrs. We’ll be trying harder in 2014 to keep […]
When we started as a web development agency back in 1996, from the very beginning we were a national company. We quickly built a strong client base in London, Leeds and Manchester and the account teams used to pile 30k miles each per year visiting clients from Bristol to Newcastle. In those days, face to […]
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4 million tablets opened as presents on Xmas day! Your customers are already mobile. Are you? We believe to design and deploy for mobile should put the needs of mobile users at the heart of the process. Just because you can view your website on a mobile phone doesn’t mean it’s mobile-friendly. We understand that mobile […]
