You may have received one of these somewhat misleading email notifications from Google recently… Google systems have tested 3 pages from your site and found that 100% of them have critical mobile usability errors. The errors on these 3 pages severely affect how mobile users are able to experience your website. These pages will not…
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Google is set to change its Search Engine Algorithm on 21st April 2015 putting more emphasis on the need for websites to be mobile friendly. You may have read online that your standard, non-mobile/responsive website will be penalised as a result. This is partially true, however, many articles (such as this one from the BBC) do not emphasise the…
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Client / server solutions Traditionally we have developed bespoke software for the Microsoft Windows platform. The client server model meant installing a bespoke database on an on-site server, which was then networked to Windows client desktop computers which in turn had our bespoke software installed on each machine. This worked well as it allowed businesses to organise…
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It has been a while in the making but our new website is now live. We always appreciate feedback so please feel free to get in touch…
Since we started trading as a software development company way back in 1996, we have found through experience that the key to a successful project lies not in a detailed and carefully crafted specification and design document, but instead in a strong iterative approach to development which closely involves the client at every stage and…
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If you don’t know what it is, WordPress is a freely available open source website content management system. It was originally used to power blogs but has grown in to a CMS capable of powering a full website. As of right now it is believed that 23% of the websites on the internet are powered…
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If you lay down the correct systems and infrastructure, recovery from serious IT problems can be made much easier and much less expensive. Take the fairly common example of hard drive failure. Once a drive has failed, and most drives fail eventually, it may not be possible to retrieve the data from it. And if…
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On the 21st April 2015 Google changed its Search Engine Algorithm to help better serve mobile-friendly sites when searching on a mobile device or more specifically a mobile phone. In the IT industry this change was coined as ‘Mobilegeddon’! Recent statistics show that 46% of all searches are now carried out on a mobile device.…
DetailsThe UK government has recently identified a need for a broader range of IT skills and greater technical knowledge to be taught in schools, starting at an earlier age, including the concepts of computer programming or coding. The report commissioned by the government identified a skills shortage and lack of teaching in this area. The…
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If you store personal data about individuals, you should be registered with the UK Government’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) as a Data Controller. For example, a personnel system is an obvious example of a system which stores personal information. Whether you are storing the information on your own hardware at your office, using a hosted…
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