Being a WordPress Agency. Work/Life balance is one of the most contentious subjects in the workspace today. But substantial evidence exists that a shorter working is better for everyone. As part of our 2011 Better Working Initiative, we relaxed the working week to 30hrs and instigated 100% location independent working. It had mixed results initially, […]
Digital publishing. Sure it’s been tough in content publishing for the last decade, but 2015 and 2016 will probably go down as watershed years. Content is no longer controlled by news agencies as the printed world dies – and with it the super-massive advertising models that drove the news industry for half a century. For […]
Peerless WordPress Support. 100% client satisfaction, sub 3-hr response, 350 support tickets. In the 3 years since we started using a formalised support ticketing system (Zendesk) we’ve seen a 300% growth in the volume of tickets. Using a formalised ticketing application has changed how we approach supporting our clients, and we’ve seen a huge improvement […]
Inside our agency We’ve created some pretty innovative e-commerce solutions over the past three decades, but until 2014 we’ve never supported off-the-shelf solutions. And here is why. We’re huge fans of being transparent; it’s in our culture to be open and honest about what we do, what we don’t and, more importantly, why. So here […]
Privacy and Security. The privacy backlash might have been coming for years, but very few organisations are really ready. In a remarkable parallel of the mobile explosion in 2012, the growing privacy drive is looking like it will catch out thousands of organisations in the UK. You probably recognise the little green padlock next to […]
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Being a WordPress Agency. As every facet of doing business is changing, the good old days are most definitely gone. The shape of our digital agency in 2015 has little in common with how we looked in 2005. And here is what we’ve found as we’ve grown from being a 20th century start-up into a […]
Just a bit of fun. Today, Oct 21st 2015, is “Back to the Future” day, the fictional day that Doc & Marty travelled to in 1985’s top-grossing film. Sadly we don’t have hover boards and much of the other various stuff predicted or imagined some 30 years ago (we do have retro 1980’s cafe’s though). […]
Data Protection & Privacy. The commonplace transfer of personal data out of the EU zone is now illegal – how it that going to affect us? For fifteen years the US Safe Harbor Framework allowed US companies to self-certify that they would protect EU citizens’ data in the US. That all stopped late last week, […]
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Being a WordPress Agency. Freelancers represent the cream of the WordPress industry. They are better skilled, more experienced, devoted to WordPress and are more creative. By a long way. WordPress has grown-up using the incredible freelance community that surrounds it – mostly these talented individuals worked at agencies before out-growing the old-tech, old-world agency environment. […]
The changing face of eCommerce. A decade ago, the use of eCommerce platforms was heavily fragmented – often local purchasing decisions meant companies might operate a handful of different, and incompatible, platforms. Much like the growth of WordPress itself, a new player WooCommerce has come to dominate the eCommerce space. And in doing so has […]
WordPress Optimisation. For over a decade, “Landing Pages” have been the go-to technology for improving on-site conversion. Is this true … and what’s the best way to implement landing pages on a WordPress installation? In the days before integrated web platforms such as WordPress, building and tracking landing pages was a real pain in the […]
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All things WordPress. Creating WordPress posts that are readable may appear to be an art, but a few simple steps can make a huge difference. Due to its simplicity and ubiquity, WordPress has almost single-handedly created a generation of writers. But not all writing is good, and we all need as much help as possible […]
Advertising Agency Hoopla. Aggressive tracking, privacy, personalised content and opaque advertorials, Web advertising has become annoying, disruptive and negative. As click-through rates fall, ads are beginning to become obtrusive and annoying as they try to be heard. Hence, were seeing the explosion of adblockers, which further depresses click-through rates and the vicious cycle worsens. Most […]
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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