Last week, as some of you have found, we quietly launched our new updated Customer Portal.  This has taken months of work and aims to bring together all the management of the services we sell in to one single, easy to use interface.  We have ironed out a few small bugs over the past week, [...]

What are SSL certs?
SSL stands for “Secure Sockets Layer.” Secure Sockets Layer is a protocol designed to enable applications to transmit information between each other securely. SSL is the most widely deployed security protocol used today. In today’s Internet focused world, we typically see SSL in use when a web browser needs to securely connect [...]

There is so much talk about Facebook these days, with more and more people signing up each day, but it is often considered to be nothing more than a fun way to chat to your friends and share some photos. If you are of this opinion, you would be wrong. Sure, it is a fun [...]

Internet advertising, also known as online advertising or web advertising may be one of the most effective advertising methods used, as it provides the ability to target specific markets while they are surfing the Internet.
However, the effectiveness of an advertising campaign is only as good as the ads.
A powerful ad is one of the most [...]

A sitemap is a collection of hyperlinks that outlines a website’s structure. These links allow visitors to quickly navigate to any section of a website listed in the sitemap.
What are the advantages to having a sitemap?
Well, in addition to making it easier for your visitors to navigate their way around your site, sitemaps also make [...]

With the explosion of dedicated video sites like youtube.com and video.google.com, and the increased availability of high speed internet, including video on your website is becoming more and more attractive. Whether you are simply sharing quick videos of the holiday you were on recently, or including a sales pitch on your business website, video as [...]

We’ve heard it time and time again… how web success is defined by traffic. The more “hits” your website gets, the more successful it is, right?
It’s a common misconception that there’s a direct correlation between the number of unique visitors or page views a website gets and how successful that site is. The thing underlying, [...]

WordPress has become one of, if not, the most popular pieces of software for bloggers the world over. Its simple design has given millions of people the ability to create a blogging site that is easily customisable. Different themes and plugins freely downloadable from the Internet have enabled anyone with little to no coding experience [...]

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When you sit down to write content for your website, who exactly are you writing the content for?
It’s very easy to fall into the trap of writing your web content to please yourself as a business owner – or if you work for a larger company, to please your boss, [...]

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Blogging can be a powerful tool for your business, helping you to engage with your customers and attract more search traffic. But it’s important to bear a few things in mind before diving in and taking your business into the blogosphere:

Give and take: a blog isn’t about pushing a message or peddling your [...]