Archive for April, 2010

A quick guide to selling web hosting to a niche

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 29/04/2010
A quick guide to selling web hosting to a niche

The web hosting market, whilst still in the growth stage of the product life cycle, is fast approaching the maturity stage. This begs the question can anyone enter the hosting market and hope to make money any more? The answer is in targeting a niche.

Make your website hacker proof

Posted by: Stu
Date posted: 26/04/2010
Make your website hacker proof

Modern cars are incredibly difficult to break in to and steal, so much so that thieves often find it easier to break in to a house and steal the car keys to make off with it. Hackers targeting your website are faced with a similar problem when it comes to getting access to your website.

Interview: Web Designer Forum Founder – Ben Scott

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 22/04/2010
Interview: Web Designer Forum Founder – Ben Scott

We recently had a chat with Ben Scott founder of the UKs leading web design forum www.webdesingerforum.co.uk about why he created the forum, how he went about getting people to the site and engaging with it, how he finds inspiration for his new design projects and more…

Google and page load speed – what’s it all about?

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 19/04/2010
Google and page load speed – what’s it all about?

If you keep up to date with the goings on in the SEO world you will have read about Google’s recent announcement regarding their inclusion of page load times in to their search ranking factors. With a lot of companies jumping on the bandwagon to use this to sell their services I wanted to address what this means to your website and what you can do to make improvements.

White label sales material for resellers

Posted by: Ben
Date posted: 15/04/2010
White label sales material for resellers

The first sentence is always the hardest, and staring at a blank page waiting for inspiration to hit can be painful. To help get you started we have created a series of exclusive pre-sales resources for you to take inspiration from or use exactly as they are.

Interview with Richard Carpenter creator of hv-designs.co.uk

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 12/04/2010
Interview with Richard Carpenter creator of hv-designs.co.uk

We recently had a chat with Richard Carpenter creator of popular UK based web design tutorial site www.hv-designs.co.uk about how he got started, how he went about getting traffic to his website, how he makes money from the site and his sources of inspiration for new content and much more…

Is re-marketing all it’s cracked up to be?

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 09/04/2010
Is re-marketing all it’s cracked up to be?

For the past 3 weeks or so I started noticing a lot of Boden banners appearing all over the internet, some in places I could kind of understand (Hotmail for mass marketing) and others I couldn’t fathom why they had booked advertising on there (e.g. a WordPress social bookmarking website).

7 web design websites you should bookmark

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 06/04/2010
7 web design websites you should bookmark

Like the universe, web design blogs on the internet are seemingly endless, some great, some not and all varying in size and quality. One of the best places to find a great set of premium web design sites is the “Smashing network”, however there are plenty more gems out there that are not on the network, and it is these I’d like to direct you towards in this post.

New Customer Navigation Features

Posted by: Ben
Date posted: 06/04/2010
New Customer Navigation Features

We are writing to let you know of two small (But highly useful) additions to the customer control panel. The focus we had when creating these features was “How can we improve control panel navigation” and as a result we implemented both “Quick Find” search and added a breadcrumb navigation, we believe with these new additions to the CP that our customers can now locate pages & settings much faster than before.

9 stunning infographics to sit back and admire

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 01/04/2010
9 stunning infographics to sit back and admire

Beautifully presented data always catches my eye and some of the infographics doing the rounds online at the moment are stunning. Here are 9 of the best I have come across (look great and told me something new and interesting).