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A selection of articles to help website owners and developers
7 Productivity tools for your business : Should you use these?
These days there are hundreds of tools and services available to solve your business problems. Some are cloud-based, some run on the desktop.
Here are some of the great tools we use, which might be useful for you too.
Your website has mobile issues? It might not have been a big issue in the past, but it soon will be!
How does your website look on a smartphone? Many more searchers are using their phones, and other non-desktop devices to browse websites today, so if your site isn’t mobile friendly they’ll have a poor experience.
This is Google’s view too, so expect them to rank sites accordingly.
Beware “Your mailbox is almost full” Spam (or Phishing) attempts
Have you received an email saying that your mailbox is almost full, and offering a link to click to reduce the size automatically?
This is an example of spam or phishing.
Protecting websites against hackers
Most website owners don’t worry about hacking until after the event, by which time it may already be seriously impacting their brand and the precious on-line presence they have taken so much care and time building up. There are ways to reduce that risk…
Do you need to worry about the Heartbleed bug?
The Heartbleed Bug has infected lots of servers using OpenSSL for the past 2 years, but was only recently discovered. Your cloud services and other internet services might use this. Are you affected and do you need to reset your password?
Dealing with website traffic spikes – stop your website crashing
We all want more website traffic, but what do you do if you’re expecting a big traffic spike and don’t know if your site can cope? What can you do if you’ve already gone through this pain and seen your site collapse when confronted with too many visitors in a short space of time?
A broken link checker removes barriers, enhancing your user’s website experience
Broken links can badly impact a visitors experience of your website, and your search engine performance too. Make sure you install a broken link checker and regularly fix any errors it finds.
Is Google helping or hindering your business?
Bottin Cartographes have successfully brought a lawsuit against Google in France, claiming that Google has been anti-competitive when offering their free Google Maps API service to businesses and that this is not competitive with its own services. This is a very interesting case. Does your business benefit or is it hindered by Google? Here are my thoughts…
Creating Facebook Welcome and other pages
Do you want to add a welcome page to Facebook, and perhaps one that displays in two different ways depending whether the visitor has already ‘liked’ you or not? You can even go one step further and add other tabs (Facebook terminology for navigational links in your Facebook sidebar). Add a great looking Welcome page to your Facebook page.
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