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As the first month of 2015 comes to a close, you may be debating whether or not to continue with your New Year’s resolutions. Perhaps you have already decided to stick out your new goal or haven’t even made one yet. One resolution worth adding to your list and keeping all year-around is ensuring that your financial information is protected. According to the Identity Theft Resource Center, there were 783 reported security and data breaches that took place in 2014, putting more than 82 million consumers and even more businesses at risk. Of those 783 breaches, 43 of them were banking or credi...

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In parts 1 and 2, we looked at how to brief an agency and work with them. We are now skipping ahead to after you have approved the designs and development brief to the testing phase. This is a key phase and one that can often derail a project. Your agency should give you an estimated build time for the site. When they have finished the build and their own internal testing they will hand it over to you to conduct your own testing and sign the system off for go live. Preparing Content Have all of your content ready to enter into the system. Adding this content not only provides a good ...

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Designing and developing websites is second nature to us, but it can be challenging if it is a process you have never been through before. Having a website created for your business is committing not only your money, but also the time to plan, review and test the finished site. So how can you survive this process and get the most out of your time and money but also out of your agency? One of the key aspects is the planning and research you do before asking for quotes. It is important that you are able to give as full a brief as possible when asking for a price as you are more likely to g...

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I came across this great article on Search Engine Land a few weeks ago that explains why search rankings and SEO ranking reports no longer matter—something I have thought for a very long time. It's nice to hear other SEO professionals agree that search rankings are too inconsistent and inconclusive to be used as a SEO success metric. Reasons why The search engines personalize the search results. I don't know about you, but I am constantly logged into my Gmail account. That means that whenever I search for something online, Google is able to see and remember my search activities and prefe...

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There are many static websites on the Internet, you won’t be able to tell immediately if it is static, but the chances are, if the site looks basic and is for a smaller company... and simply delivers information without any bells and whistles, it could be a static website. Static websites can only really be updated by someone with a knowledge of website development. Static websites are the cheapest to develop and host, and many smaller companies still use these to get a web presence. Definitions, advantages and disadvantages Advantages of static websites Quick to develop Cheap to develop C...

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