New website for world class designer

2able have recently created a new website for legendary car designer, Frank Stephenson. The new site, www.frankstephenson.com, has been created to provide information on the designer’s history and his new ventures, including work on a flying taxi and a film documentary. It was great to work on such an interesting project, as Frank has been responsible for some of …

GDPR – Don’t panic!

In this article, I share my thoughts on “what’s the worst that can happen” if you’re not GDPR-compliant on the 25th May 2018, following several days of research, including trawling through the ICO website and watching a couple of webinars/seminars hosted by industry experts and thought leaders. It’s also based on founding and running several companies …

Removing “ligatures” in WordPress via CSS

In writing and typography, a ligature occurs where two or more graphemes or letters are joined as a single glyph. An example is the character æ as used in English, in which the letters a and e are joined. The common ampersand (&) developed from a ligature in which the handwritten Latin letters e and …

One Image Size To Use On All Social Media Posts

So we have everything integrated. We post an article on the website, which in turn automatically posts a copy to twitter, facebook, linkedin, instagram and any other network we wish. But is it possible to use 1 image that works perfectly across all networks? That’s what I’m going to look at. Different social platforms have different image …

Google’s Mobile-First Index – Are You Ready?

On the 4th November, Google announced that they would be switching to a mobile-first index, regardless of the device making the search https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2016/11/mobile-first-indexing.html. As the majority of searchers on Google now come from mobile devices, this fuelled their decision. If your website benefits from Google traffic, be it advertising or organically, and you don’t currently have a …

Android Gets Stagefright!

If you’re an Android user then you need to know about a new exploit that could allow someone to take over your phone just by sending you a video message. The bug has been named “Stagefright” Security researchers at Zimperium have discovered an exploit that lets attackers take control if they send a MMS video …

Amazon Fire TV USB Stick Hits The UK

Amazon is about to launch it’s Chromecast rival in the UK this week. For those that don’t know, a “TV stick” is a small device that plugs into the HDMI port on your telly and lets you access a number of on-line services, such as Netflix, Spotify, web, games, Apps, etc. Google have already released …

New Apple Watch

So Apple has announced their new watch and it looks like everyone is going to have start sharpening their fingers to be able to use it. Prices range from £300 to £13500 (depending on colour). I’m willing to bet they don’t last for more than 10 years and will be about as useful as a …

Military Deal For ‘Next Gen Passwords’

The US military is developing a new identity verification system that could replace passwords and biometric systems for web users. It’s all about “cognitive fingerprints” rather than physical characteristics such as palms, face, DNA or iris recognition. The technology is based on the emerging field of behavioural-based biometrics, where algorithms are used to confirm identity …