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Company logos will be shown in search results with new schema markup

Ben Lacey — Mon, 20 May 2013 12:30:31 +0000

Schema.org was started two years ago and has slowly been growing in momentum, but since its launch we've not seen any changes to the schema markup...until today when Google adds support for company logos to the organization schema.

Automatically hide email addresses from spambots in WordPress

Ben Lacey — Sun, 19 May 2013 09:00:52 +0000

If you show your email address on a page in your website you run the risk of a spambot crawling your website and adding your email address to a spam list. This WordPress function will hide your email address from spam bots so you can show your email address on your website.

Adobe are discontinuing development of Adobe Fireworks

Ben Lacey — Tue, 14 May 2013 09:00:22 +0000

Earlier this week I read an article on the Adobe Blog concerning the future of Adobe Fireworks, and sadly Adobe have decided to discontinue the development of Adobe Fireworks...but all is not lost.

Secure your WordPress login using Google Authenticator

Ben Lacey — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:17:44 +0000

WordPress is a popular and secure CMS but there is always the possibility that your WordPress installation could be hacked into. This article shows you how to add 2-step authentication to your website to improve security.

Improve Magento SEO for your store using the robots.txt file

Ben Lacey — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 12:14:29 +0000

The robots.txt file is used to help search engine crawlers determine what parts of your site should be indexed. Creating a robots.txt file for your Magento store is an important step to improving the SEO on your store.

What’s the difference between white hat SEO and black hat SEO?

Ben Lacey — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 14:15:38 +0000

Search engine optimisation has seen its fair share of good and bad techniques to improve a website's position in the search results. This article explains the difference between white hat and black hat SEO.

Interflora penalised by Google for offering bloggers free flowers for backlinks

Ben Lacey — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 09:45:42 +0000

Google recently penalised Interflora for their recent unethical back-linking campaign. The flower company targeted bloggers in attempt to gain links back to their website and improve their position in search engines but it all went wrong ...

Top tips to improve the security of your WordPress website

Ben Lacey — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 14:35:44 +0000

Security in WordPress is taken very seriously, but as with any other system there are potential security issues that may arise if some basic security precautions aren't taken. This article provides tips you can use to help improve the security of your WordPress website.

Getting started with E-Commerce – your options when selling online

Ben Lacey — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 09:00:43 +0000

Its essential that businesses think about E-Commerce websites as a method of increasing sales. This article highlights aspects of E-Commerce development you should to be aware of.

What is FeedBurner and why should you use it on your WordPress website?

Ben Lacey — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:47:13 +0000

Today I'm going to introduce you to a service called FeedBurner and how you can use this to greatly improve your blog readership and return visitors to your WordPress website. I'll be showing you how to use FeedBurner to improve how you use your WordPress feeds.

Four steps to improving your Facebook business page

Ben Lacey — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:00:16 +0000

It has been one year since you launched your Facebook page and you still have a very low number of likes but most importantly none of your fans are talking about your brand – how can you improve your Facebook business page? Here are some simple tips you can follow.

All WordPress hosting clients updated to WordPress 3.5.1

Ben Lacey — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:25:46 +0000

Today WordPress released a security and maintenance related update (WordPress 3.5.1) to fix 37 coding bugs that were found in the recent WordPress 3.5 update that was released a few weeks ago. I have applied the WordPress 3.5.1 update to all WordPress hosting clients.

All WordPress hosting clients updated to WordPress 3.5

Ben Lacey — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 10:00:51 +0000

This month I'm happy to announce that all WordPress customers have been updated to WordPress 3.5. This release welcomes a new media manager, a host of performance updates and a new twenty twelve theme.

Tracking checkout abandonment in Magento E-Commerce using google analytics

Ben Lacey — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 23:00:06 +0000

Website statistics are vital for any e-commerce website and in this article I'll show how you can effectively track Magento shopping cart abandonment using Google Analytics. This will allow you to analyse & improve your e-commerce website and sales conversions.

Important considerations when designing a business card

Ben Lacey — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 08:30:09 +0000

After a chance meeting your business card is the only marketing tool left with a potential customer, and you want to leave a lasting impression. This article discusses important design considerations you should consider when designing a business card.

What are rich snippets and how can they improve your website?

Ben Lacey — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 09:00:40 +0000

When there are so many websites online, its hard to differenciate your website from all the others. Rich snippets can make your website stand out from your competitors in the search results to improve the number of visits to your website from search engines.

Website storage increased by 20% for all web hosting customers

Ben Lacey — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 19:51:28 +0000

Christmas is the time for giving and this year is no different. All my hosting clients will receive 20% more storage space for their website. I wish all my customers a very happy Christmas and New Year.

What is Magento E-Commerce?

Ben Lacey — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 09:00:03 +0000

Magento is a feature-rich E-Commerce platform built on open-source technology that provides online merchants with unprecedented flexibility and control over the look, content and functionality of their eCommerce store.

Top SEO Myths debunked in 2012

Ben Lacey — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 13:32:10 +0000

This article has been written to educate you about some of myths that surround the SEO world, so you start to better understand some of the theory behind how websites get the top organic rankings within search engines.

A collection of great websites I use for downloading free fonts

Ben Lacey — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 12:40:02 +0000

In my design career I've often found myself looking for good quality fonts to use in my designs. I thought I would collate a list of the top font resources I use for print design projects

Add social media contact methods to WordPress user profiles

Ben Lacey — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:21:38 +0000

This tutorial shows you how to add and remove contact methods in WordPress for registered users. This would be useful if you wanted to store a users Facebook, Twitter or Google+ profile links.

What are CSS print stylesheets and why are they important for your website?

Ben Lacey — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 09:00:31 +0000

Today I discuss the benefits of CSS Print stylesheets and how they can benefit your website visitors. This step by step tutorial will help you understand how you can use print stylesheets to improve your website and meet your users needs on screen and in print.

Add content after posts in WordPress

Ben Lacey — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 09:15:43 +0000

This post is in response to a message from one of my Facebook followers asking how they could add content after WordPress posts. This is useful if you want to include information about the author, the post or maybe add social sharing links so readers can share your post using Social Media.

All WordPress hosting clients updated to WordPress 3.4.1

Ben Lacey — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 12:00:58 +0000

This month I'm happy to announce that all WordPress customers have been updated to WordPress 3.4.1 allowing for a range of new features and performance enhancements.

Improve web forms and accessibility with HTML5

Ben Lacey — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 13:59:25 +0000

HTML5 brings a whole new set of form elements and attributes to help make web forms more accessible. This article gives you a brief overview on the changes and examples on how you can use them.