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After all, we’re only human!
I’ve posted a couple of articles about social networking, and it’s something that we recommend that our customers at least try to understand and get to grips with. After all, it doesn’t cost them anything, and potentially there are huge benefits. There’s a right and wrong way to approach it though, and not appreciating why [...]
Safe surfing – common sense prevails.
I receive around 50-100 legitimate emails every day. My server's junk filters do a pretty good job of filtering out the undesirable ones.
However, a few pretty convincing 'phishing' emails always make their way through, and normally I can spot them pretty quickly. The one I received earlier today though had...
Read More It wasn’t like this when I was a lad!
I've finally accepted that I'm getting older. I realised this when I heard myself saying "It wasn't like this when I was a lad".
It happened just a couple of weeks ago. A friend of mine is currently travelling around Australia, and regularly updates friends and family via their mobile phone...
Read More Build up a contact list and grow your business.
People have a fascination with Google. The most common question we're asked is "Will my new site appear in Google?".
We agree that a good ranking in Google certainly helps things along, but it's really only a part of a bigger campaign. It's all got to be backed up with a...
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 Inspiring stuff!
A couple of things have got me thinking about inspiration and where it comes from. I'm sure it works differently for different people. Some are inspired by nature, some by science, but for me it's always specific individuals and their actions or achievements. People inspire me, and in many different...
Read More Back to school!
At elmnet we've been putting together a website for a primary school. It's an interesting situation - the old school is being knocked down and a new one being built, and a website is being produced to tell the story.
Over the last few months a mixture of people have been...
Read More Boudoir photography in Northumberland, Newcastle and the North East with elmboudoir.
The elmphoto team are now shooting boudoir in the Newcastle, Northumberland and North East England area, and we're delighted to announce the launch of our new website at www.elmboudoir.co.uk.
So what exactly is boudoir photography? Broadly speaking it’s a set of sensual images, often taken of a bride as a surprise...
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 Networking from the comfort of your own home
Social networking - the internet buzz words of the moment! So what exactly is it, and how can it work for you?
I must admit that as a web developer I knew little about social networking until recently. I saw it as 'something that the kids did', and so that meant...
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