Web Design, Wordpress and Hosting Services in Swindon

11 good reasons to host your blog content on the same website as your business website rather than on independant blogging sites

According to Quantcast, the website audience measurement company, wordpress.com is now the 19th most popular site for US visitors. This is likely to improve further as more businesses start to realise that WordPress is a credible web development platform.

Are you in control of your domain name? Can you log in to your domain registration and point your domain(s) to whichever server you choose? Here are a few reasons why you might want to take more control…
Who controls your domain… and business?

I have recently received an attempt at phishing – to obtain my Twitter username and password. I’ll tell you what happened and how you can avoid falling foul of these scams…

Wordpress is now being used to power 14.7% of the top 1 million websites in the World, and 22% of all new domain names active in the US are wordpress sites.

See the full ‘State of the Word’ address by Wordpress founder Matt Mullenweg

WordPress saves copies of your content every time you update a page or a post, and auto-save revisions are taken while you are editing content too. These ‘revisions’ are then displayed towards the bottom of the page when you are viewing or editing your content, and can be used to compare changes between 2 different [...]

I have started using Amazon S3 to store many of the files my websites use. This cuts down the demand on my own server and, alongside the Cloudfront service, offers improved website performance. When uploading your files to Amazon S3 make sure that you allow all users to have read access to the files. Otherwise, [...]

Have you discovered Google Web Fonts yet? This is a library of fonts, suitable for using on your website, that are available under an open source licence and stored on and accessed from google web servers. So they are fonts you don’t need to pay for! The possibilities for your website are great. There is [...]

I’m trying to kick-start my Social Media activities after attending the Nigel Morgan Social Media Workshop last week. So, in the few days since my workshop, what have I done so far? LinkedIn – My LinkedIn profile is now 95% complete (from 65% just a few days ago). Apparently, my profile will get more visibility [...]

I have been using Social Media (and advising my clients to do so) for a couple of years now. I’m an active twitterer, a member of LinkedIn, I blog regularly on a number of different sites, and do my fair share of commenting on other blogs when the blog is an enjoyable one and where [...]