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As the world becomes more conscious of environmental issues, businesses are looking for ways to reduce their carbon footprint. One area often overlooked is web hosting. Websites, while virtual, have a very real environmental impact. The servers that host websites consume significant amounts of electricity, much of which comes from non-renewable sources. This post explores [...]
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In today's digital age, having a fast-loading website is not just a nice-to-have; it's a crucial component of your business success. Here's why speedy web hosting is vital and how it can dramatically boost your business. Speed Sells: Why Faster Hosting Wins 1. First Impressions Matter Imagine walking into a store and waiting several minutes [...]
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Maintaining a website is crucial for any business aiming to stay competitive in the digital space. Here’s why regular upkeep is essential: 1. Enhancing User Experience Updating your website’s design, speed, and content regularly ensures a seamless user experience, which can increase engagement and conversion rates. 2. Boosting SEO Rankings Search engines favor sites that [...]
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Global Daily Marketplace has been in development for quite some time – and it has taken us many, many months to get to this final stage and launch the website, it has been worth the wait though – and it has been a truely exciting project to work on. To give you some idea of [...]
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Fahr Beyond are a UK registered charity dedicated to finding and cure, and helping to support people affected by Fahr's Disease. Fahr's Disease is a rare, genetically inherited neurological disorder characterised by calcium deposits in areas of the brain that control movement. The website needed to be modern looking with numerous pages for all the [...]
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We've had fun designing and building the new Capricorn Singers website, in case you don't know "The Capricorn Singers" are an amazing local ladies choir based in Cleveleys (just north of Blackpool) they have helped raise a lot of money for local charities over the years and if you have never heard them sing then [...]
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We were contacted by a local Blackpool guest house owner to create them a website for their 2 self catering guest houses... Stratford Apartments and Alexandra Holiday Flats (both local in Blackpool). The website we built for them has a clean / fresh look and allows potential guests to browse what each guest house has [...]
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Our latest "local" project – Lytham Joinery & Construction We love working with local Fylde Coast business so when we heard from the guys at Lytham Joinery & Construction asking us for a price for a simple but stylish website we gave them an excellent local business discount! The site features a clean, fresh and [...]
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If you current web hosting isn't performing – maybe it's slow or unreliable or just plain expensive and you want to migrate to our UK cloud then we have made it even easier! If you run your own business you probably don't want the hassle of trying to migrate your website hosting or the expense [...]
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We are very pleased to announce that our UK cloud hosting platform is now Powered by 100% renewable energy! Did you know that the internet uses a lot of power? An individual website only uses a very small amount of energy over a year but with millions of websites online this all add's up... and [...]
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We are pleased to announce the launch of the brand new Fox Lodge Guest House website. The website is fully mobile responsive meaning that it looks great on any screen size it is viewed on, the website shows off the guest house's newly renovated rooms as well as allowing customers to quickly contact Fox Lodge [...]
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Woocommerce is an excellent ecommerce plugin for the WordPress CMS, it allows you to setup and run your own ecommerce store without too much fuss. Woocommerce though has been developed by a team of mainly US based developers and as such has many "americanisms" (is that even a word?) which include using American words and [...]
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