Get the price right

No, this is not checking the prices of the products that you are actually selling against competition so that you can add enough markup to ensure a good margin, but the boring old job of data entry into the database on your website. I’m currently wading through hundreds of product options correcting someone else’s erroneous … Read more

Distributed denial of service (Ddos)

A customer of mine learnt the hard way why cheap domains registration isn’t worth it and why disaster recovery plans are essential. The domain registrar who holds all of their domain names on their domain name servers went offline following a ddos attack, taking their website and email service with it. Hundreds of other business … Read more

Content for mobile

LOVE the article by Dan Scott for econsultancy about golden rules for responsive web design as he mentions content first for mobile (also because it talks about hierarchy of content, but that’s another post). So many times the website gets to content ready stage and the content doesn’t fit the design or no-one has thought … Read more

Multiple domain name registrations

I’ve seen an insane tendency in myself and other business owners to register domain names “in case I might use them at a later date”. New TLDs are being invented all the time and they can cause a mad rush to register mybusinessname.whatever and ridiculous amounts of money change hands for that domain name you … Read more