Supporting G&H into 2020
By lisa, 3.01.20
We are delighted that world photonics technology leaders G&H have renewed their contract with us for the 3rd year running. 2019 was a big year for G&H, formerly Gooch & Housego, which saw them rebrand and abbreviate their name - meaning a change of website address and a cosmetic refresh of…
Achieving an A+ Security Score for your Website
By tom, 24.09.19
Security has always been important for anyone operating a website, but with the introduction of the GDPR and the very real threat (and reality) of astronomical fines, it feels like the stakes have been raised. It’s never been more important to take all the steps available to you to protect…
Autoscaling for SafeHaven
By lisa, 15.05.18
The newly relaunched SafeHaven.com is already picking up traffic - and so needed some AWS magic! We recently built a new site for Safe Haven to replace the previous site on the domain with a modern day CMS that our client can quickly and easily update. The site specialises in news…
Hootsuite API hookup for ModQ
By lisa, 9.05.18
We recently got accepted onto the Hootsuite Developer Platform with our content gathering tool ModQ. ModQ lets you easily collect images, video and text from your team, volunteers or public audience so that you can broadcast fresh, relevant content. You can post directly to social networks from the tool but as Hootsuite…
Load testing - our new favourite thing
By lisa, 30.04.18
Last year a client needed some load testing done on their site before a big server migration. This means testing if the new server is up to the job of receiving the expected traffic levels - and adjusting it before you go live if it isn't, so it doesn't fall over and…
Video ad platform goes live for OilPrice.com
By lisa, 24.04.18
Our client OilPrice.com have been looking for a while for a video ad platform. They've spoken to a few companies and had trials - but the costs are often pretty huge. So we stepped in and made them their own - in just a few hours. The videos themselves are called from Vimeo.com…
Is WordPress editor jumping down slightly when you click?
By lisa, 17.04.18
Recently we've encountered a small but very irritating glitch in the WordPress editor whereby the content editor will jump down by a line when clicking in the text area. After a bit of investigation we discovered this can be solved by disabling the "Enable full-height editor and distraction-free functionality" checkbox…
An AWSome day of learning
By lisa, 11.04.18
Our developer Craig recently took part in the AWSome Day where AWS tell you all about their cloud hosting offerings. (AWSome... do you see what they did there?!) We've got a few clients on AWS as we've been working with Amazon's hosting for a few years now, so this webinar…
Cleaning a mailing list for GDPR
By lisa, 5.04.18
We’re helping a couple of clients at the moment clean their mailing lists ahead of GDPR. By this I mean if any of their subscribers didn’t double opt-in, or didn’t sign up inline with the consent rules of GDPR, then they need to be asked to rejoin. For one client,…