I’ve come across many blogs over the past ten years where I’ve scanned a couple of entries to see what they’re about, consciously or subconsciously thought, ‘You’re boring me. I’m leaving now,’ and then closed the tab. It sounds harsh, but we’ve all done it. We’ve also all written boring things that people have stopped [read more…]
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Standard web fonts. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, you’ve got to admit that they’re in desperate need of an update. You can specify several different fonts in your CSS, but you run the risk of not having full control over what your website looks like to your visitors. You could also make your titles into [read more…]
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Paul Andrew is the founder speckyboy.com, one of the most popular web design blogs around today. Paul has been kind enough to take time out and answer some questions about how the site became so popular, how he uses social media and his plans for 2011. Could you provide a bit of information about yourself [read more…]
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As a web host, security is something we prioritise. In no particular order, here are our top tips for choosing and using passwords: 1.Avoid the obvious Don’t use your name, the word ‘password’, your username, your date of birth, your website name or similar. You may be rolling your eyes at this advice because it’s [read more…]
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There are so many options available to our resellers to customise the products, features, prices and services that occasionally customers may miss a particular feature, especially with us adding to them every month. Here are 10 features available to all reseller web hosting customers that you may not know about. 1. White label your domain [read more…]
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Selling web hosting to clients is one of the most profitable services a web designer or agency can offer. Because of this, a lot of our reseller web hosting clients are web designers and/ or web design agencies. One such customer is Rocket Powered Web Design, who offer web design, graphic design, marketing services and [read more…]
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The first quarter of the year is one of web hosting’s busiest periods in terms of both traffic and sales, with new year resolutions started and the winter months still keeping people indoors. This graph from Google trends helps to highlight how search demand for the keyword “web hosting” changes over the year. If you [read more…]
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I was recently powering down my PlayStation 3 after watching live TV through the web browser when I started to think how integral the device had become for my digital entertainment. I haven’t tuned in my TV for analogue or digital TV for at least 2 years now, not because I don’t watch TV, but [read more…]
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Despite the rise of social media, email marketing is still key to many websites’ relational and sales strategies. As with anything to do with digital marketing, there are numerous metrics and acronyms associated with email marketing, but some of which have too much weight placed on them at the expense of others. A great example [read more…]
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We’re ten days into 2011, but it’s never too late to put your website on a diet! Making your website leaner and meaner can help you rank better in Google, keep your site secure and reduce the amount of space and bandwidth you use. Going back to existing pages and code can be boring when [read more…]
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