We love technology, well, most of the time. Here are some tips that you may be able to apply to your own systems. If it’s beyond you, give us a call!
We had an interesting enquiry from a client this week. They have a membership website with a shop which uses PayPal for payments and subscriptions. As the organisation is based in the UK, the PayPal account is in UK pounds … Read More
When a small business or member organisation wants to process payments online, they frequently look no further than PayPal. Many people have PayPal accounts and prefer to pay this way as it reduces the number of small websites which hold … Read More
When you manage a website, either for yourself or for a client, you are in a privileged position. You are effectively a god with permission to do everything. This can give you a very skewed view of your website. It can … Read More
Have you looked at the address bar in your browser recently? If you have, you might have noticed some changes sneaking in. One is the increasing use of secure (https) sites even if there is no interaction with the visitor. … Read More
Following a discussion on spreadsheets at the Hereford Referrals Brunch last Friday, I thought that some tips are worth sharing. Many spreadsheets are built, used and then forgotten. Others are well used and get developed further to provide more information to the … Read More
A solar panel company has been fined for it’s handling of a telephone marketing campaign. Was the software really to blame?… Read More
WordPress 4.3 is available! Please update now. WordPress 4.3 arrived this week with some nice new features attached and a whole list of bug fixes… If you use more that a couple of plugins, it can seem as if there … Read More
Anyone with a contact form on their website has had to consider the issue of spam. A captcha field will stop some of the spam but can antagonise your potential customers. A honey trap is another option. Read how we created one for a WordPress plugin.… Read More
A couple of events last week have led me to think about backup – and more specifically about recovery. It is easy to say “Yes, my machines are backed up” and even “Yes, I can recover files from the backup”. … Read More
Does your software have hidden functions? It seems as if every time I open an application nowadays, it comes up with a update to apply. This is particularly noticeable with Open Source packages – WordPress and associated plugins, FireFox etc. … Read More