Windows 11 is out now and if you haven’t tried it already, you probably should. It’s free to upgrade from Windows 10 and so far after testing, we haven’t found any obvious issues. One thing that did seem to a problem was the new centred taskbar. It looks neat, but out of habbit, we’re always …Read more.
We use Microsoft Outlook every day. Every time we start up and sign in we’re checking our emails, replying, updating our calendar, etc. If you’re fed up of having to manually open outlook each time then this guide is for you! When XP was around you could find the Startup folder under the start menu …Read more.
A lot of people on Facebook groups tend to ask for recommendations for the best broadband provider, best broadband provider by area, etc. The truth is, other than Virgin who use their own Fibre and Coax network, the rest are all using BT’s fibre and copper network. This means that unlike mobile providers, there is …Read more.
Launching in May 2021 the Google Page Experience update is on it’s way and we’ll have an impact on search results as they stand at present. This update is significant because user experience will play a role in how well or how poorly a site ranks. Google also said they will be experimenting with a …Read more.
Sign written vehicles Sign written cars/vans. We tried this ourselves once and gained several enquiries. Imagine the enquiries for a business that’s not as niche as web design? If you’re looking to get your vehicle sign written locally there are plenty of places around that do it without needing to travel into Southampton. We never …Read more.
With services like Wix making builidng websites easier the amount of interest in these types of services has grown massively over the years. Just how good is Wix? Can it beat WordPress for the typical small business? Would we ever build a website using Wix? Keep reading to find out more! A bit of history …Read more.
When we started building websites, we didn’t have much time for WordPress. 100% of our website builds were 100% bespoke. One problem we kept coming to was that… developing bespoke features comes at a price. Plugins There are over 50,000 plugins for WordPress. Free, paid, free with paid extras. That’s 50,000 plugins that could possibly …Read more.
As of the 26th of November PHP 8 is available. We won’t be using it on our servers, at least for a short while. PHP 7.4 (the latest supported version and the version we run) will be supported well into 2022. This allows plenty of time for testing. What is WHM? How will we test …Read more.
On many occasions we have seen websites with poor loading times. Sometimes this is down to poor server performance, poor and big javascript files. Other times it’s simply down to images not being optimised. There are ways of making sure your images are right for the web! Sizing If you use WordPress or a CMS …Read more.
After a quiet-ish April we found May to be one of our busiest months to date. We weren’t able to put out a blog post (with the aim of doing at least 1 per month) because this would have taken away too much time from getting projects complete. One big reason we’ve found though with …Read more.
