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Home working – the perfect process
Everything’s changed. The way we work, rest, and play. It’s easy to dwell on the misfortunes of the current situation. So what can we do to inject some positivity into the business? How can we build some momentum and confidence? How can we turn some of the current threats into opportunities? Process perfection One of …
The secret of speed
There are many reasons why you would want to have a faster website. The most common reasons include: Improved search engine positions. Google, et al, will rank websites with fast loading times higher than those with slow loading times (a generalisation, as search engine position has many factors). So having a fast website will go …
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 …
Free Google Image Optimisation Tool
Google Chrome Labs, the experimental web app part of Google, has an image optimisation tool, and it’s pretty cool.
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 …