Mobile devices. Large format smartphones set to take over the computing world. In less than 24hrs, Apple pounded the final nail into the coffin of small smartphone. They took orders for 4 million phones, and set to shatter every smart device sales record with an estimated 10 million devices sold by launch day. We’ll look […]
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WordPress Agency News. WordPress is fast becoming the go-to web platform, but not all WordPress agencies are created equal – so what factors should you look at when choosing your WordPress agency? Since WordPress has become so popular, every Tom, Dick and Harry agency are calling themselves a WordPress agency. As a result you’d be […]
ECommerce. New larger phones, a first stab at wearables … and a payment ecosystem. It seems the world focussed on the big £700 smartphone, and therefore Apple’s share value slid but the really big news is a brand new payment ecosystem. Blah blah blah big phone, blah blah £700, blah blah 4 years late. Who […]
WordPress Web Platform Arriving without a fanfare last week, the WordPress 4.0 launch is a low-key affair. It sounds like a big thing, VERSION FOUR, but in reality the numbering is not so significant as it’s on a par with the 3.8 to 3.9 schedule. On the other hand, for the 60m web-sites in the […]
WordPress Security. Today we launched our new fully secure web-site. SSL is now implemented across 100% of our digital services and properties. Our main WordPress-driven website was the last element to be converted over to Google’s recommended security level by adopting https access. In addition, and as an industry first, all clients will have new […]
Being an entrepreneur By Martin Dower. By far the most common subject I’m quizzed about is the “risk vs return” of starting your own agency. I started our little WordPress agency back in 1996, of course back then we didn’t have WordPress so we (sort of) invented our own. It was a fledgling time and […]
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Connected Universe. 32,000,000,000 devices will be connected to the Internet in the next five years. And each digitally connected home will generate 160GB of data and consume 2TB per annum The numbers are huge, and largely driven by the Internet of things with every flavour and colour of new devices appearing daily that connect to […]
WordPress Support By William Bott WordPress Support is growing. Efficiency is up. Response time improving. Larger team. August is the start of a new financial year for us, so out with the old and in with the new. And what a start. August saw over 230 new support tickets, with a first response rate of […]
WordPress Platform Launching a new product or service typically involves creating an unique and marketing plan focussed on communications and sales operations Typically, organisations dive straight-in a create a new micro-site. But does it have to be that way? Can you work smarter? Building new sites used to be expensive, time-consuming and, with new products, […]
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Responsive / Mobile. 90% of UK SMEs still don’t have a responsive web site. Costing, on average, £25k per annum. According to a survey back in February, smaller companies were ignoring the opportunities of going mobile. Despite the no-brainer win for businesses, the average cost of £25k to go responsive is still seen as being […]
WordPress Security “Buy cheap, pay twice” goes the old-wives tale, and despite WordPress being open-source and obstensively free it’s easy to get it wrong ‘It all seemed so simple, I set up WordPress on my cheap hosting package and installed a theme, we we’re flying high for a period of time, on the first page […]
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Productivity. Email consumes an average of 13 hours per week (according to McKinsey), that’s 28% of the average workweek. And it’s just nuts. Referring to email as a productivity tool is plain wrong. In fact, it’s the ball and chain that drags us to our desks, wakes us up in the morning and keeps our […]
SERVICE DISCONTINUATION NOTICE It’s a sad day when we have to shut a service down, but after 3 years the Online Booking service is being closed down. It relied on Google and it’s Google Calendar service which is undergoing dramatic changes in how it operates and it’s not commercially or technically viable for us to […]
Being a WordPress Agency. Everyone seems to be “pivoting”, or least trying to, so I thought I’d share our pivot. And it’s titled, “How we accidentally became a WordPress Agency.” We’ve been a digital agency since before it was termed that way. If fact, in 1996 we started a plain-old company that had the technical […]
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A different perspective. By Martin Dower Penny wrote (we say penned!) an article last month title “Writing for your readers. Not you.” and it struck a chord with me. I agree in principle with much she said don’t totally agree. You see, I’ve writing for the web for nearly ten years. I didn’t learn how […]
Agile Marketing. As an emerging trend, Agile Marketing is getting a lot of airplay but agencies, clients and marketers can struggle with delivery. The concept of fully-formed, sequential marketing plans is incompatible with “agile marketing” in many areas, hitting real problems around planning and delivery. The concept of Minimum Viable Product is great tool to […]
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35 servers. 99.97% Uptime. 88 outages. 637 ms response A steady month in the world of WordPress cloud-servers saw 88 occurences of downtime, 41 of which were planned across 35 web servers. We extensively use Amazon AWS to host WordPress sites, as well as the excellent WPEngine Platform as a Service and we’ve seen steady […]
Ofcom released it’s annual “Communication Marketplace” report to a blaze of PR fanfare, sound/word bites and a cocked-up Digital IQ test. The yearly release of this tome sums up much of what is wrong with corporate understanding of digital channels and human behaviour. It ends up being, at best, an exercise in stating the obvious […]
WordPress in the Enterprise. It still comes as a surprise to hear that many “serious developers” refuse to use WordPress, calling it a blogging platform. Are these developers missing out? I would say so, and it’s largely borne out of ignorance and the fear of change. WordPress is the fastest growing digital platform in the […]
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Gods Country. August First is Yorkshire Day. And it’s roots date back to 875AD. Started formally in 1975 as a movement to stop the government breaking up the great county of Yorkshire it’s now almost 40 years. But the history goes back a lot longer, to Yorkshire Declaration of Integrity, which affirms Yorkshire’s ancient foundation […]
