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Articles from the guys at Rain Drop on practical web design, fast UK hosting, straightforward SEO, and getting small businesses online with less stress.
We write for small businesses across the UK, including those close to us in Blackpool and the Fylde Coast: useful advice, honest explanations, and the occasional reminder that a website should make life easier, not add another job to your week.
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Not sure whether to pay monthly or upfront for a business website? Here is a plain-English guide to the pros, trade-offs, and questions worth asking before you choose.
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If you own an eCommerce website then you more than likely want to display the payment methods you accept? These amazingly detailed icons come in a huge range of sizes and include payment options such as: Visa Mastercard Amex BitCoin PayPal Direct Debit And more... In total there are 30 payment icons in 10 different [...]
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If you are a small business and are trying to attract people to your social networking channels then paying for them is a way of doing it, not for the purpose of increasing sales but as a way to make your social channels and your business as a whole look bigger. Buying Facebook followers is [...]
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A collection of 81 Social Media icons in .png format (.svg files are also included!). You can use these icons on any web project for FREE! CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE ICONS FOR FREE
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Did you know there are 253 Countries in the world (including Independent Nation-States)? We didn’t but that didn’t stop us collecting all 253 flags as icons that you can use for FREE! From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe – this icon pack has them all… CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD 253 COUNTRIES FLAGS ICONS PACK FREE
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What is the ideal image size for a tweet? How big should a Facebook cover image be? We answer all these questions and a lot more in this handy free PDF download – so you can keep it and refer to it when you need it. CLICK HERE FOR THE FREE SOCIAL MEDIA IMAGE SIZE [...]
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If you own a food / restaurant business then online ordering & delivery is vital – as more and more people are using online food delivery services and online restaurant booking. The problem with popular ordering services like Just Eat is they charge a high commission (normally around 20%-30% of each order) But there has [...]
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Google Adwords (Ad's) can be a very effective way of driving customers to your website, they allow you to appear at the top of Google's search results for a small fee... You pay Google PER CLICK which means that everytime someone clicks on your advert you get charged a small amount by Google. How you [...]
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Here at Rain Drop Web Design we like to support other local businesses, we believe that local businesses should stick together (especially during the current problems that 2020 is throwing at us). That is why we are offering up to a massive 20% off all our web design quotes for local Blackpool & Fylde Coast [...]
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We are currently open and working normally. Blackpool is currently under Tier-3 restrictions (at the time of posting this update) but this does not stop us working with a few additional policies in place to protect both us and our clients. We will not be holding any face-to-face meetings with clients, all communications must be [...]
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We are offering our scalable, secure cloud hosting and business class emails totally free for small UK registered charities. Our cloud infrastructure is tuned specifically for WordPress but we can host any website that can be hosted on Linux (if you are unsure just check with your web developer). Please note we cannot currently offer [...]
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SSL is a protocol that encrypts data between a website visitor and the website they are browsing, it provides a layer of security so that the data being sent to and from the website cannot be intercepted. This means that any personal data the visitor provides to your website – from simple contact details to [...]
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