Archive for September, 2011

How to boost your creative income

Posted by: Jenni
Date posted: 29/09/2011
How to boost your creative income

Whilst creative web industries continue to get more competitive thanks to a struggling economy, don’t worry – if you can write, design, take photos or develop, there are still plenty of ways to boost your online income. Creating additional streams of income means you aren’t sitting around waiting for work, and if you’re just starting [...]

Interview with Frank Chimero

Posted by: Jenni
Date posted: 26/09/2011
Interview with Frank Chimero

We’re sponsoring New Adventures in Web Design, a UK based design conference, for the second year running. As part of the buzz surrounding the event, we’re interviewing the speakers to find out more about their backgrounds and motivation. First up is popular designer and writer Frank Chimero. Tell us a bit about yourself. My name’s [...]

Simple ways to make your social media more interesting

Posted by: Jenni
Date posted: 19/09/2011
Simple ways to make your social media more interesting

The simplest and most effective thing you can do to gain followers and influence is be interesting. It’s not as easy as it sounds, particularly for companies, as social media is an ongoing commitment and it can be hard to judge success. Whether you’re promoting yourself, your business or both, here are our top tips [...]

Interview with August WOTM winner Flying Cow Labs

Posted by: Jenni
Date posted: 16/09/2011
Interview with August WOTM winner Flying Cow Labs

August’s Website of the Month winner was Flying Cow Labs owner Neil Judges. We caught up with him to find out more about his website and his views on design. Tell us a bit about yourself and the history of Flying Cow Labs. I started Flying Cow Labs about 2 years ago after a number [...]

Spam: Help us to help you

Posted by: Ricky
Date posted: 15/09/2011
Spam: Help us to help you

With the large increase in spam across the internet in recent months, we thought it best to share some of the ways we can all help to reduce the problem. As a company, we are proactively and consistently making improvements to our systems and processes all the time to avoid the spread of spam and [...]

New BlackBerry Enterprise Services for Hosted Exchange users

Posted by: Jenni
Date posted: 14/09/2011
New BlackBerry Enterprise Services for Hosted Exchange users

We’ve had a lot of people requesting BlackBerry Enterprise Services (BES) on our Hosted Microsoft Exchange platform, so we’re happy to announce that it’s now available to all web hosting, dedicated server and reseller hosting customers! BES gives you the same level of functionality for Microsoft Exchange mailboxes as other ActiveSync devices (such as iPhones [...]

Win 2 tickets to the “New Adventures in Web Design” conference (worth £190)

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 13/09/2011
Win 2 tickets to the “New Adventures in Web Design” conference (worth £190)

We are proud sponsors of the “New adventures in web design” conference being held on 19th January 2012 in Nottingham. This is the 2nd year we have sponsored the event, and looking at the line-up of speakers and events going on around the conference, it is going to surpass even last year!

Brand new icons free for anyone to use

Posted by: Craig
Date posted: 12/09/2011
Brand new icons free for anyone to use

We have added a brand new icon set to our free web hosting resources page, completely free for you to use for any purpose you see fit (apart from distributing them as your own of course). This new icon set has been created for websites selling dedicated servers and comes with the following icons: Server [...]

30 of the best image resources for designers

Posted by: Jenni
Date posted: 08/09/2011
30 of the best image resources for designers

Despite the wealth of images available on the web, sometimes it’s hard to find exactly what you’re looking for…especially if you have a small or non-existent budget. We’ve pulled together a list of some of the best cheap and free stock image websites so you can source photos, textures, icons, illustrations and much more with [...]

Download your free copy of Serif WebPlus X5

Posted by: Craig
Date posted: 07/09/2011
Download your free copy of Serif WebPlus X5

We’ve teamed up with Serif to offer all our Home Pro, Business Pro and reseller hosting customers the full version of Serif WebPlus X5 completely free. With an RRP of over £80, WebPlus X5 is a fantastic user-friendly program which allows you to quickly create your own professional grade website – even if you’re not [...]