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You can’t complain about any month that has two bank holidays in it. If you have any awesome plans for this extended weekend don’t forget to bookmark this post, or the links below, before you leave! If you don’t have any awesome plans, join the club and keep reading… The essential small business website checklist [...]

Getting your first job is one of the most important steps you take in life, and also one of the most difficult. What with the increasing costs of university and the ever competitive job market, leaving school can be tough. Our new apprenticeship scheme is for 16-18 year olds who are looking to kick-start their [...]

Going against years of experience and expectations this week’s bank holiday was actually hot! Despite most of us enjoying BBQs and sun bathing in the park, the Internet never sleeps, so neither do we (note: that’s not a literal claim). This week’s link Friday has the usual eclectic mix of useful resources, articles, inspiration and [...]

Each month, we run a competition named ‘Website of the Month’ in which people can submit websites that are hosted with us in the hope that theirs will be judged as the best…

April’s Website of the Month competition included finalists from a great mix of websites on subjects ranging from restaurants to psychopaths…

Time waits for no man (or woman), and neither does the internet. You didn’t catch that amazing article last week, never mind, another 100 have been and gone since. Have you read them yet? Link Friday is our way of trying to pick out the best links we’ve come across over the past week, distill [...]

We are pleased to announce that we are sponsoring this year’s Shropgeek (R)evolution conference to be held on Friday, 27 September 2013 at the Shropshire Conference Centre in Shrewsbury. Shropgeek are a group from in and around Shropshire who meet on a regular basis to catch-up, socialise and explore topics such as code, mobile technology, [...]

Windows web hosting has been added to our product range to give our customers even more choice when deciding on a hosting platform for their website. Whilst Linux still dominates the market, there are a significant number of websites that use Microsoft technology to power their sites, and we felt it important that our customers [...]

Update 23/04/2013: We have now introduced a page with a captcha to help address the ongoing attempts by the botnet to access WordPress and Joomla websites. When you go to your admin/ login page you will be asked to enter the captcha to continue. We feel this is a more elegant, user friendly and secure [...]