The Internet Community. Positive contribution on the Internet enhances the experience for everyone, increases it’s value and encourages others. The lawmakers have been actively kept away from influencing much of the Internet over the last 20 or so years, for good reason. Freedom of speech, freedom of opinion and the open transfer of ideas is […]
Social Media, maybe? Video streaming exploded onto the Internet this year with Meerkat and then Periscope. Fad or future? Meerkat came first and forced Twitter to early-launch their Periscope service – but what are they about and why might they be ground-breaking. Video content platforms have been around since before Youtube (now 10 years old!) […]
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Digital Nomad by Martin Dower. Will we all quit the wasteful commute, and work in our local Starbucks? I was recently interviewed by a Sunday Magazine about our approach to virtual working and digital nomadary (!). It was a fascinating experience, so I thought I share my view here before a heavily edited version appears […]
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Analytics and flow – Always be testing. Obviously, crafting a great UX for your site will help enormously with conversions. And it’s easier than you think. There are lots of proprietary solutions out there, but sometimes simpler is better. And that’s what Google Analytics can offer via it’s In Page Analytics. If you’ve built your […]
Peerless WordPress Support. 10/10 is the simplest way to describe WordPress support in March. A little over 2 years ago we started publishing our support stats, it was pretty brave at the time and I’m pretty sure we were the first digital agency to do so. It’s now become fairly commonplace, and most good WordPress […]
User Journey. More and more people are suffering “Carousel Blindness” – a condition that causes the brain to switch-off from seeing the contents of carousels. Web design fashion over the last few years has dictated that every (it seems) company must have a carousel at the top of their home page. Why? The theory suggests […]
SEO and all things mobile. April 21st is a landmark day for the mobile experience. It’s the day that Google will hammer you if you’re not “mobile-friendly”. “Starting April 21, we will be expanding our use of mobile-friendliness as a ranking signal. This change will affect mobile searches in all languages worldwide and will have […]
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By Martin Dower. On User Experience. Notifications, primarily from email messages, and their actions is widely thought to be consuming 25% of our work time. It’s not just “new mail” that is dehumanising us – it extends to any platform based on notifications including Facebook, Periscope, Worflow Management and most items connected to the “Internet […]
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Peerless WordPress Support. The numbers say it all: 100% client satisfaction, 269 WordPress support tickets, 4hrs first response. This is the power of transparency, and there is nowhere to hide, no creative marketing that can detract from independently audited support numbers. When we started publishing our support numbers in 2013, we did so because we […]
AKA The World of Shut-ins The on-demand world we now live in provides everything and anything we could need whenever we need it. Delivered over the wire or to our door. But is this driving us to a world of isolation, depression and anti-social behaviour. Or is it liberating us to be truly free? In […]
Staying secure. Getting hacked, although rare, is a nightmare of lost productivity, wasted time and sometimes irretrievable loss. Not a week goes by without a story appearing in the tech press about the latest victim of hacking – and with a life revolved entirely around the cloud it’s time to up the game. Since 2014 […]
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Being a WordPress Agency. It’s easy to forget how important WordPress has become in the last few years. In fact, it’s downright awesome. I remember when, in 2008, we made the decision to go WordPress. The howls of derision and “not on my watch” echoed round the office. I’d like to think it was a […]
Being a WordPress Agency The workplace is changing, and for the better. Old-fashioned business practices are being disrupted by innovative, agile approaches to working. Nowadays, bright people need organisations less than organisations need them. This is the paradox driving change. This core driver is making companies re-think how and where they do work and probably […]
London Office. We’ve serviced clients in London since 1997. And it was time (actually overdue) to move to a more accessible location. We are now based at the iconic, grade 1 listed, Kings Cross Station. Specifically the East Side building which is, unsurprisingly, on the East (right-hand) side of the station. Accessed from front of […]
Search Engines. Google recently launched “Mobile Friendly” tag is looking likely to go mainstream in the next month or so. Google championed mobile-first, and specifically Responsive Design (RWD), back in 2011 but they’re getting deadly serious about it now. In the past, when Google has added new elements to it’s search algorithm it only made […]
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Being a WordPress Agency. The modern digital services world needs experts, not jack-of-all-trades. Sadly, for many agencies its a matter of survival that they diversify into working with lots of different technologies – despite it often being the cause of their ultimate demise. The more you diversify your product coverage, the weaker the skills and […]
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Peerless WordPress Support. Another 200+ support ticket month. With 100% client satisfaction. Despite a short month, we still chewed through over 200 WordPress support tickets without dropping a serious ball. It would be nice to say we’re perfect all the time but we’re human and sometimes drop the ball. February, overall, was a clean month. […]
WordPress Support. Launched in early 2014, Peerless WordPress Support from Connected just got a whole lot simpler and better. Since we started our dedicated WordPress Support service in 2012 we’ve been striving to refine, simplify and improve what we offer. Last year we streamlined our offering and made our pricing transparent. This year we’ve added […]
Being a cloud-based WordPress agency. By Martin Dower. Time sure flies, its half a decade since we embraced the cloud and we can’t imagine life without it’s warm and magical embrace. The journey started for real back in 2008, so that’s 7 years ago, as we moved our 2 primary communications channels (email and project […]
Being a small WordPress Agency. Everyone seems to want to be big. I can’t see the point. In the digital agency world, there are no economies of scales, only inefficiencies caused by bloat. And the disappointment associated with poor and overstretched customer services. As a client, would you rather be one of a handful of […]
