Category Archives: Web/Tech

10 Important Questions You Need to Ask

Having met many business owners over the years who have dabbled in creating or promoting a website themselves, or outsourced to a third party, we still believe there’s a lot of uncertainty in what to do / what not to do and some people have been given very misleading information. We feel very strongly about…

QR Codes – Are they a passing fad or here to stay?

You may have seen these images with seemingly random squares popping up in different places. They’re called QR codes (short for Quick Response) and are best described as a 2-dimensional barcode. Basically you point the camera of your smartphone at the code and it will decode the information contained in it. QR Code Generator –…

Do You Keep Your Data in the Cloud?

I’m treading slightly carefully here as cloud computing is a fairly new subject to me (you can read more about it here), but am intrigued by the amount of services offering remote data storage, which have exploded over the last couple of years. Many of us use remote data storage on a daily basis, and…

Making the Most of Webmaster Tools

Google has an array of tools to help website owners promote themselves and one particularly useful tool is Webmaster Tools. Whether you manage your website yourself or not, it’s well worth setting up or asking your web developer if it’s already set up for you. The information provided by the application is very useful, albeit…

Internet Questions and Answers

If you’ve been struggling to understand social media, what it does and where it’s going – you’re certainly not alone!  In this thoughtful clip, KPCB’s Randy Komisar ponders not only the evolution of Internet content and the types of businesses that it spurs, but questions the Web’s next great phase. Has your business benefitted from…

Why URL Shorteners are a Good Idea

If you’ve ever got lost trying to write down or type a long URL like: http://www.verylongdomainname.com/index/wherenext123/perhaps here/perhapsthere/?01dontknow/youhavetobejoking/phewatlast.html, the chances are the person giving it hasn’t heard of URL shorteners or that it could have been made it into http://bit.ly/atlast (I don’t know if that’s a real web page by the way!).  This also makes the…

Are you a mystery to your customers?

I’ve just visited a very odd website.  It belongs to someone I met at a recent networking event and I wanted his email address to make contact as I can’t find his business card. When I couldn’t see any details on the home page, naturally I went straight to the ‘Contact’ page – to be…

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