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Sometimes informative, sometimes entertaining, frequently opinionated. Tips about growing your business online, special announcements and the occasional rant.

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Do you trust me? (What are you doing next Friday?)

How Logo & Brand Designers Can Keep Website Designers Happy

Don’t go leaving Facebook on the shelf

Misty Mornings are Here

Cookies – what does ‘good’ look like?

Feeling blue?

How To Make the Most of Video Conferencing

A Super Simple Guide to Writing a Blog Post

Hippo Pages Case Study

Using Gmail to Access Other Accounts

Celebrating #Web30 with a blast from the past

And the colour of the year is…

Lies, damned lies, and Search Engine Market Share statistics…

SSL Certificates – Closing the stable door before the horse bolts

The Great Dot UK Scam

Tool of the Month: Make your diary work for you with Acuity Scheduling

Making the most of your content – online and off!

The About Us Page – Show Yourself Some Love

Learning from The Shed – An Exercise in Social Media Manipulation

Five good reasons your website needs a sheepdog

Streamline your writing – stop being a perfectionist!

What’s in a name? Do you need a brand?

The Dangers of Stock Photography

Colour in Branding Infographic

Do you do SEO?

Video killed the radio star…

The great #portfoliocatchup batch 3!

#portfoliocatchup batch 2

The Great #portfoliocatchup

Social Media Image Sizes Cheat Sheet

How to hide your address on Nextdoor

Plenty more Phish in the sea… it’s not just emails from your bank

Proud to be a Recommended Beaver Builder

The Lauren Effect – Anyone can build a website, cannot they?

What’s in a number? The difference a local phone number can make.

Lessons from the Heart – why you shouldn’t keep all your eggs in one basket

If a picture paints a thousand words, then why not paint your blog?

Hello 2016

How we stopped contact form spam with CleanTalk

Headway tip – removing Category Archives title

Using Yoast? “Your homepage cannot be indexed by search engines” – DON’T PANIC!

Using Google Chrome and getting strange menu flickering in WordPress? That will be the slimming paint!

Why taking Direct Debits on your website is both easy and worthwhile

What are the best times to post on Facebook, Twitter etc?

Are you missing out on at least 300 visitors per day? (clue: “no”)

Why Facebook Like Ladders are worse than a waste of time

Pick your featured images with care!

Finally some good news for Facebook Page managers!

A Busy Summer for our Portfolio

Please, does the new iPhone 6 mean we can finally kill mobile websites?

What is Bounce Rate? Plus 5 tips for reducing it!

“Hardly anyone sees my Facebook posts any more.” Good. That means it’s working.

Perfecting your cover photo for the new Facebook Page layout – complete with template

Who owns your website? 3 important things to check.

A new website for @GreggaWallace

5 reasons your website is like a dog

A history of Google search engine optimisation crackdowns

I hate “blogging” and I’m not alone – I need a Social Media Mentor

The (not so big) secrets of On Page SEO

Facebook kill Page status updates – make sure your links don’t go the same way

Free gifts for bloggers – remember that calendar?

Psst. Wanna buy a domain name? (5 reasons buying extra domain names is a waste of money)

Back to work for 2014

Can your web hosting cope?

What should I build my website with?

Warning: some of our posts contain affiliate links, most contain traces of nuts. All posts have been written in an environment where nuts are frequently located.

When recommending products or services, we will frequently use affiliate links. If you make a purchase after clicking on them then we may well receive a small payment.

However, we only recommend products that we use ourselves – the referral fee is just a little bonus. Even without that bonus, we would still recommend the product and posts are not written with the sole intention of receiving that bonus.

Any bonus we do receive helps us fund our community projects.