Our new website is now live
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…
Is there a software development skills shortage?
The 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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Integrating Slack
You may have heard of Slack but if you haven’t, Slack promotes itself as an online messaging application for teams. Our development team use it to communicate with each other on a daily basis and it’s very useful. I won’t go in to the details here as the Slack website does a great job of that;…
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Improving the web… for developers
Some good news… for us… as bespoke software developers of web based software systems. Browser compatibly issues have long since been an active issue ever since we starting developing software solutions for the web. Whilst we endeavour to develop our bespoke software solutions to adhere to a set of web standards, we occasionally come across…
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HTTP, SSL, HTTPS, let’s talk acronyms and why you need one.
If you have a website or online software system you’ve probably heard your developer mention these acronyms, HTTP, SSL and HTTPS. Let’s start off with the basics… When you visit a website you may have noticed that the web browser prepends http:// to the web address, for example, https://www.cbssolutions.co.uk. HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol,…
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Google Mobilegeddon! Is it that bad?
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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Google Mobilegeddon – did you notice?
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.…
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Google ‘Fix Mobile Usability Issues’
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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Gmail: Be careful with this message
Are you using Gmail from Google to send emails using your company domain name? We find many do as it’s a free alternative to Microsoft’s Outlook 365 service. If so, do you have it set up correctly? It’s well worth checking everything is in order as Google recently started showing warning messages to recipients stating…
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Do you need a bespoke calendar in your cloud software solution?
We have noticed a recent trend in customers having a need for a bespoke calendar/diary/scheduling element to their cloud based software solutions. We have an excellent calendar component fit for purpose which we can plug in and customise for different business needs. Live Demo We can tailor the feature set to match your exact requirements…
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