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In this day of super fast internet speeds even on mobile data roaming who would have thought that the speed of your website would have any baring on your website ranking. Well the fact of the matter is that Google as well as the other search engines will take the loading speed of your site as a factor when ranking your website on their search engines. Optimising your website for speed weather it be by reducing image file sizes or by minifying your javascript, will all play a small part...

Cybersecurity and the concerns In a world with fast-growing advancements in technology (at an exponential rate) we find ourselves delving deep into the cavern of the cyber world. But are you truly safe there? Just as we have to tackle crime in the real world, there is crime to tackle in the cyber world. Hence the need for Cybersecurity. From Cyber attacks and Phishing Websites to Malware, your online presence could be in jeopardy and you may not feel safe. Without extra precautions you are vulnerable. Just last week a...

We have been asked the same question, again and again lately, so we are writing this blog post to try and weigh up the facts as to which system is most suited to your eCommerce requirements, Magento or Shopify. Lets begin by weighing up the pros and cons on each system, which I have put into a simple table below. MAGENTO PROS VS SHOPIFY PROS Extensively customisable with support from huge Magento open source community which integrates with many other systems For non professional end users this may be a...

We are very proud to have been awarded a TrustPilot Excellent rating, built up recently from 40 happy client reviews, who all gave us a 5 star rating. Trustpilot.com is a website founded in Denmark in 2007 which publishes reviews for online businesses. The site lists and promotes registered businesses for free but charges fees for additional promotion. Since this is probably the leading word on company reviews its important to be found on it, see our own excellent listing results HERE. Our clients have been very kind to take the...

In recent days there has been a lot of stir in the online community in particular WordPress, to do with the new GDPR privacy law which is coming into affect on the 25th of May 2018. Owners of WordPress websites are urged to take action to be compliant before this date. So what exactly do you need to do to make my WordPress compliant with the new GDPR laws? Additionally, there is a document that has been prepared by ICO (information commissioners office) which has an easy to follow 12...

Often emails sent by WordPress can end up in your spam folder, because it isn’t setting the message envelope properly. So the actual message envelope is using the server hostname which is just not correct, it will work but it is not ideal. To fix this issue, you should setup WordPress to send emails properly and set the full message envelope correctly. What does this mean? The best way to explain this problem is with an example. Let’s say you have your WordPress website (let’s call it, mysite1.com) on a server with Fully...