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Marketing, websites and the 3 legged stool
The most significant thing about a 3 legged stool is, well, the 3 legs. It’s a minimalist thing: any more would be excessive, and with any less it would fall over! What’s this got to do with marketing and websites? Think of the 3 legged stool as the support structure that holds your website up, [...]
Website development – and why DIY isn’t always the best option
It is tempting to think that the most effective, cost efficient way through the website development maze is to use one of the new generation of online website builders. After all, they’re low cost, well designed and quick to get going. That’s the upside. The downside is that they only provide part of the essential [...]
Malicious Hosting Account Attacks on the Increase
Over the last few months 2 of my clients have had the security of their hosting accounts breached by spammers inserting scripts to activate illegal mass mailing campaigns. The result was that the server administrators had to immediately put the hosting accounts into suspension until the offending scripts were removed. In other words the websites [...]
Domain Name Renewal Scam
Recently I have had a couple of clients who received bogus letters ‘inviting’ them renew their domain name . . . for up to 10 times the normal renewal rate! Well, I suppose if you are going to try it on you may as well set your sites high Seriously though, these bogus domain renewals [...]