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 […]
Thinking responsively. The SmartPhone is 7 years old yet it has supplanted desktops, TV and the games console as the most important connected device in the UK. This sea-change had been predicted as far back as 2010, and OfCom’s latest report has confirmed our deep love and attachment to mobile devices. SmartPhones now dominate our […]
Being Connected. Being Old. The world is obsessed by new stuff – it’s all about the new – but really cool are business that survive and prosper for decades. It’s very easy to start a new business, but working out how not to go out of business is a little bit special and takes vision, […]
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Being a Londoner. We might live and work in the greatest city in the world, but boy are we dependent on the tube. And when a big strike comes along we’re all a bit shafted! But there are ways to deal with the tube strike and avoid the stress. Here are some ideas: Uber Surge […]
Being a digital agency. For those born before 1990, it may seem like a fantasy world in which you can run a medium-sized successful WordPress agency from your phone. The world is a different place now: The cloud pervades everything we do, location is irrelevant and “there is an app” for everything you need to […]
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Cloud Computing. In the last few years, the cloud has become all-pervasive – and for many that is a reason for concern. But you can relax – the cloud is really safe. Despite news stories of major security breaches and hack attacks by high-profile groups, the loss of damaging data is still relatively rare. Most […]
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Peerless WordPress Support. It’s difficult to improve on 100% so we strive to maintain the longest 100% client satisfaction streak in our history. We’ve had the same WordPress support team of 4 in place now for over a year, and it really shows as we maintain unbeatable client satisfaction, whilst working through about 3,000 WordPress […]
Being a WordPress Agency. The rise of the flexible workplace, both socially and legally is rewriting not just working hours but how we approach work. It’s a shockingly recent notion that work and play should be mutually exclusive things, but prior to the rise of the industrial revolution it was the norm. Most companies are […]
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