Privacy and Performance. The current HTTP/1.1 wasn’t designed for the complexity of delivering modern-day digital services – time to say hello to HTTP/2 and a better, faster and more secure web. Most folks have never even heard of HTTP/1.1 so why might this be significant? The old standard put some major restrictions on how web […]
The future of smart devices. You can now build mobile websites that tap into device capabilities easier, faster and simpler than building a native app. And, with a few exceptions, this was the only reason you’d choose the complexity and expense of building an app. Oh, and the snob factor – it’s ever so good […]
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A WordPress Agency with depth. Imagine a world where you ignored marketing and focused your efforts on writing and sharing the best and highest quality content for your visitors? That sounds nice … and different. Modern “Content Marketing” (sic) has largely grown out of 2nd-rate SEO in recent years, as old-style SEO marketers struggle to […]
Peerless WordPress Support. Supporting WordPress installations and development is so central to our client’s that its become an all-consuming passion. Whem back we first started publising our support statistics back in June 2013, a few internal folks had kittens. They didn’t see the need to share what was deemed as sensitive information. Well, 28 months […]
The future of the web. iOS9 introduced adblocking and (maybe) the next great Internet battleground. Adblockers have been around since the appearance of that first advert on Altavista in the mid nineties. So why is this so different? Who are the new adblockers? Well, for the last 20 years its been knowledgeable individuals (ycrta: geeks) […]
Being a web development agency. PHP, the programming driving about 40% of the world’s websites has had a stellar year. The one-time poor cousin of proper programming languages seems to be winning the web war through ease of learning, wide adoption, scaleability and future-proofing. Its over ten years since Version 5 was released and now, […]
Looking back in time We take for granted our history, nearly 20 years as a digital agency and over 8 as a WordPress Agency. So every now and again it’s good to look back. It’s exactly seven years since we started using WordPress and here is how other Septembers has looked to us over nearly […]
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Being Connected. The explosion of coworking may finally spell the end of the traditional office. And about time, too. When we were started (in 1996), the founders lived 250 miles apart in London and Yorkshire so we were born as remote workers! This presented huge challenges, at the time technology struggled to provide answers. So […]
WordPress Conferences. Stick it in your diary: December 4th to 6th at Pennsylvania Convention Centre, Philadelphia, PA. This is the very first US-titled WordCamp. Until this year, the unofficial “main event” was at WordCamp SanFran. Not anymore, the 2,000 delegate conference is now the daddy of all US WordCamps. So, with WordCamp US as the […]
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WordPress World. The growing use by copyright holders of “Takedown Requests” is starting to backfire. A take down is a process operated by online hosts such as Google, Facebook in response to court orders or allegations that content is illegal – often this is a copyright infringement and trademark protection issue. Frequently this is “big […]
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Being an agency. It seems as if we’re all time poor these days, so how do we go about getting more done in less time? (Hint: Just reading about productivity doesn’t fix this problem) We’ve been a digital agency for nearly 20 years so we’re tried pretty much every productivity tool in the book – […]
Commonsense. Many seasoned bloggers and content writers will tell you that you must have a glaring big headline picture at the top of your post. But is it really worth it? Almost of the headline banners and sliders attached to the top of posts are repurposed stock images, or the result of stealing an image […]
Being an agency. For 5 decades, the office was the place where the most varied of your social interactions took place. Not so anymore. The convergence of remote work, social networks, contracted labour and time scarcity has shifted the purpose of the office to a transactional one. And in almost every way it is better […]
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Being a web design agency. It’s over 5 years since Flash was dealt a mortal blow by Apple, Wikipedia etc and some 15 years after we stopped using it. Now, Flash is officially dead. It was hateful when it turned up in the late nineties and as a digital web design agency we had to […]
Peerless WordPress Support. We’re so very proud of our support record, it truly reflects the love and commitment our agency has to all things WordPress. When, on our 5th birthday as a WordPress Agency (our 17th birthday as a digital agency) , we created Peerless WordPress Support, little did we know that it would go […]
…well, the theme at least The default themes shipped with WordPress have been getting progressively better. They also, usefully, avoid the fussier elements and bloated functions that are so common today. Due out with WordPress 4.4, it’s a modernised approach of the standard horizontal masthead and (optional) right sidebar. It has some neat colour options […]
Being Connected. For years mentors and speakers have crowed about work/life balance. But are they missing the point? Work life pretty much defines every professional and the traditional work/life balance argument broadly says you have to do less work and more life. Is this correct? It creates a tension as we all (mostly) want to […]
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The growth of WordPress. Yesterday, WordPress 4.3 went on public release. That brings to 8 the number of public release versions so far this year. Quite a lot eh? The development roadmap for WordPress has been very aggressive over recent years and numbered 13 major release versions since 2011. This excludes the almost statutory maintenance/bug/security […]
Workplace of the future. The end of the traditional desk and office-space has been trumpeted by the fortunate few for nearly a decade. It’s now here for everyone. Until recently it was great if you had the money, the investment capital, vision and opportunity to create new working spaces – but most didn’t benefit unless […]
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Peerless WordPress Support Getting WordPress Support is as simple as opening a new ticket and takes less than 5 minutes. Back in 2012 we moved over our entire support infrastructure to Zendesk – since then we’ve dealt with tens of thousands of WordPress Support queries quickly, painlessly and with over 99% client satisfaction. If you’re […]
