2020 – what a year!
I don’t normally do an end of year post but boy, if you were ever going to do one, this is the year! Firstly, you can’t talk about the year without being thankful for coming through […] Read more
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7 Ways to Protect your WordPress site this Christmas
With the holiday season quickly approaching, many of will be trying to watch what we eat so that we don’t need to tighten our belts come the New Year. In this article, I want to talk […] Read more
#TheWPshow with Sue Keogh (again!)
In Sue Keogh‘s second appearance on #TheWPshow she talks through some fantastic examples of how we can encourage people to take action; whether that is from fine-tuning the call to actions on our websites, or advice […] Read more
My Aunty Ivy, Fireworks, Woodbines, (& WordPress)
In this photo we see (from left to right), my Aunty Pauline, Aunty Ivy, and then my grandma (Aline) on the right holding hands with my mum’s brother, Glyn. My mum is the bump in my […] Read more
Do clients have to ‘like’ their website?
When we are designing a website for a client, I try to always keep a sharp focus on the client’s target audience(s) – the people to whom the website needs to engage with – as that […] Read more
Active Campaign – how we use ‘goals’
As part of our business, we run online events called #TheWPshow (‘The WordPress Show’). The show is aimed at non-techy businesses and website managers who want to stay current and improve their knowledge & their WordPress […] Read more
#TheWPshow – Website forms & Email Deliverability
In this episode of #TheWPshow I discuss email deliverability and website forms. This video talks through a lot of the points I raise in this article on website forms & email deliverability. Domain names – what […] Read more
FiveThirtyEight.com
It’s not often then I visit a website, especially on mobile, which really turns my head. But that’s exactly what happened when I visited https://fivethirtyeight.com/. Above is the desktop view but, as I say, I first […] Read more
#TheWPshow replay with Steve Kirtley
On this #TheWPshow I chat to my old friend, and seasoned web developer, Steve Kirtley. We talk about the future of websites, after chatting about how the web has evolved. How we used to build […] Read more
Takeaways from ordering online
I ordered some take out food recently, I was time-pressed with the kids and ordering beforehand, ready for pick up, just made sense. The online ordering experience was really, really poor. When I first started in […] Read more
#TheWPshow – Online Legal Issues
Sadly we had some audio issues at first, so I’ve needed to edit those bits out. We jump in with Alistair starting to talk about the meaty topic of GDPR…. I managed to salvage most of […] Read more
Sending passwords (securely)
As a WordPress development & support company, we tend to have access to lots of client’s website credentials, and we often need to send passwords to clients. In this article, we’ll explore how we do that […] Read more