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Technical Archive
Improve your SEO – write a blog!
We've been running this blog for a few months now, and one of the reasons we decided to launch it was to see first hand what effects it would have on our search engine rankings.
We've put a variety of topics in here about all sorts of things that interest us,...
Read More Apple’s new OS is here, first impressions . . ?
If you're upgrading from the previous Apple operating system then it just costs you £25, so it's got to be worth a gamble! There's been a lot in the press recently about it, so what's it really like?
I always tell myself that I won't be an early adopter of technology....
Read More Move your database online
Databases are not very glamourous. They are the domain of techno geeks and nerds who spend more time writing queries and testing them than doing anything else. I like them!
In it's raw form, a database is just a collection of tables, almost like a spreadsheet really, but for a database...
Read More Have you time to ‘content manage’?
Content Management Systems - the perfect option for a business?
On paper at least, probably! A Content Management System (or CMS) is in it's most simplistic terms a web based system that allows an authorised user to log in and make changes to their own website without needing to pay a...
Read More Backup, backup and backup again . . .
Today I discovered the importance of having an up to date backup. I actually managed to delete a mySQL database which held all of the content of this website.
Rather that than delete a mySQL database that held all the content of a customers website, but I was very upset for...
Read More The corporate food chain.
Back in 2005 Macromedia (creators of Dreamweaver, Flash, Freehand and more) were bought by Adobe (makers of Photoshop and Illustrator to name but two) in a deal worth around $3.4 billion.
Adobe and Macromedia were the two big players in the design industry, and I remember being a little uncomfortable...
Read More Could you ditch Windows?
A few years ago the idea of running an office without Microsoft Windows was an unlikely scenario.
Since Windows 3.1 came out, and subsequently the 95, 98, 98SE, Me, NT, 2000, XP and now Vista variants it's pretty much been at the core of most computer systems. But could you run...
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