Should I install an SSL certificate on my website?

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The simple answer is yes!  But what is an SSL certificate and why do I need one? SSL certificates, or secure certificates (https://), enable a website to be sent from a web server to a visitors computer encrypted. In the past SSL certificates were reserved purely for eCommerce sites to ensure customer information is encrypted…

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PHP 5.6 end of life

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All good things must come to an end and next year it’s the turn of PHP 5! No, it’s not a skin cream but website operating software. We like to give you plenty of advance warning about changes and this may affect some of our website hosting clients in the future. The servers that we,…

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Improve website performance

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One of our customers, Red Mist Leisure, was concerned with the speed of their websites. Performance is an important area of improving search engine ranking so well worth taking some time to look at ways to reduce page load time. We performed an audit of their nine websites to give us a baseline of how…

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Toolkit set-up for government department, Local Partnerships

We’ve been working with the team at Local Partnerships for around a year now helping with newsletter and website updates. When they asked us to help build them a toolkit to help prospective councils and planning departments to evaluate their delivery capability we were delighted to get involved. Essentially the toolkit is a quiz asking…

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A new website build for a local dog kennels and cattery

With two of us being dog owners we were very pleased to help local dog kennels and cattery business Oak Ride Farm based in Send, Woking. They were looking for a new website to give the company a freshen up as well as a boost up the search engine rankings. Their existing website used a…

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Bespoke web design build for Health & Beauty Spa

An existing client, Sarah got in touch with us recently about a new website for her new Health & Beauty salon project. We’ve worked with Sarah for several years on two other sites, also salons, and were delighted to quote for the new website build. As a new website she required a bespoke design, our…

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Website build for the Verity Group

The team at Verity recently contacted us; they had recently taken over the business and wanted a new look to their website. As a new venture, they wanted the site built as quickly as possible, so we opted to use an existing website theme using the Joomla content management system. We specialise in Joomla websites…

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Website rebuild for Better Student Homes

A few months ago we were contacted by Andy from Better Student Homes. His website that promotes student property lets in the York area was quite old and had unfortunately been hacked causing his hosting company to threaten to take down the site. We initially helped fix the hacking issues but as the website was…

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Website build for The Copy Cafe

The Copy Cafe offers copywriting services to businesses, from website copy, press releases, advertisements and brochures & leaflets to social media posting and email marketing. We know the owner of The Copy Cafe, Sara; she’s helped us with copywriting work in the past so were delighted when she asked us to help build her a…

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New website build for ESO Training Services

An existing client of ours, The European School of Osteopathy, contacted us about a new venture they wanted to launch, first aid training courses, they needed to create a website and asked us to help. We were of course happy to help and with their input started putting together a proposal on how best to…

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