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By Matthew Telfer

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Your Business

Tips on how to use discount codes profitably

Discount codes are a great way to drive new sales. They create a headline grabbing price and are instantly and easily shareable amongst your customers and prospective customers. However, over the past year there have been some horror stories coming from small companies that have been badly burned by codes they have shared through the [read more…]

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By Craig Cotter

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Interviews, Website of the Month

Interview with November Website of the Month Winner The Kindle Users Forum

November’s Website of the Month contest winner was the popular Kindle Users Forum. We caught up with the founders to talk about where the idea came from, how the community developed and more… Tell us a bit about yourself and the Kindle Users Forum. I have been a self-employed web developer for a number of [read more…]

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By Jenni Brown

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VPS

New VPS API now available

We’ve updated our API documentation to include VPS functions, so you can speed up various VPS tasks such as preparing, inspecting, listing and working with servers. To view the entire API documentation, click here. Below you’ll find an overview and quick links to the new specific VPS elements to help you get started: Prepare a [read more…]

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By Jenni Brown

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Interviews

Interview with Trent Walton

We’re sponsoring New Adventures in Web Design, a UK based design conference, for the second year running. As part of the buzz surrounding the event, we’re interviewing the speakers to find out more about their backgrounds and motivation. We asked designer and developer Trent Walton to tell us about his current projects and his involvement [read more…]

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By Ricky Hayes

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Misc

GNOME 3 – What’s it all about?

So what is GNOME 3? Simply put, it’s a graphical Linux desktop. Read on to find out more… If you’re a Fedora (an RPM-based, RedHat-sponsored free OS) user, then you’ve probably heard both good and bad things about GNOME 3: “It’s the best thing since sliced bread”, “It’s an unholy mess”, etc. While these might [read more…]

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By Jenni Brown

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WordPress, Your Website

5 uncommon WordPress plugins to improve your website

There are tens of thousands of WordPress plugins out there, and we’ve picked out a selection of the better lesser-known plugins to help you improve different aspects of your website. Feel free to comment below with your experiences or plugin recommendations! Search Meter This simple plugin will record all the searches made via the default [read more…]

By Jenni Brown

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Interviews, Website of the Month

Interview with October Site of the Month joint winner iBodz.com

We had a chat with our other joint Website of the Month winner for October, iBodz.com health and fitness website. If you’re interested in entering our Website of the Month contest, you can nominate your site here. Tell us a bit about iBodz.com and where the idea for the site came from. Being a web [read more…]

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