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Positioning HTML text on background images A great slider / 'Hero Box' or banner can add interest and can set the tone of a website in addition to conveying some meaning. Eye-tracking research has shown that people are attracted to information-carrying photos - but positioning HTML text on an image isn't straight-forward in responsive web de...Read more...
Uses of Colours in Logo Design The link between colors and emotions is very important specially to logo design. It is crucial for companies and graphic designers to understand the essential things about colour and its impact on design. Lack of an understanding can result in undeveloped and redundant colour combinations that can p...Read more...
Email spam filtering at DigitalFlare To identify and filter out spam email messages for our clients, our mail servers rely on a 'spam filter check'. We run an assortment of criteria tests to determine an overall score for spam. If an overall spam score is too high the email is marked as spam. In addition to our checks, we first check ...Read more...
Email Spoofing If it appears that someone has been sending emails from your email account, but there is nothing in your 'sent items' and no record of the emails being sent from the server then there is a good chance your email address has been spoofed... It is very common and there are plenty of tools on the int...Read more...
Web browsers will mark all HTTP sites as 'unsecure' starting in July In July Google Chrome will mark all HTTP sites as 'not secure', according to the Chrome security team. Chrome currently displays a neutral information icon, but starting with version 68, the browser will warn users with an extra notification in the address bar. Chrome currently marks HTTPS-encrypt...Read more...
What do I need to do ahead of the GDPR deadline? Over the last few months or so we have had several clients enquire about GDPR and how the new regulations will affect their company and their website. With lots of confusing and conflicting information out there we have put together a short list of the key requirements for small businesses who have ...Read more...
GDPR In a Nutshell After more than three years of discussion the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) framework will replace the current 1998 Data Protection Act. It comes into effect on 25th of May 2018 and non-compliance can lead to some significant consequences! Depending on the kind of infringement, there ...Read more...
Do SSL Certificates Affect Search Rankings? Do you know that almost 70% of internet users believe that current laws for protecting their rights are not good enough? And... currently (Dec 2017) just 5% of the top 1 million websites redirect users to a default HTTPS/SSL version! No wonder Google has taken a strict stance to ensure that it prot...Read more...
How and why to make your website 'Mobile-Friendly' How and why to make your website 'Mobile-Friendly' It’s a fact, that there are now more mobile devices than there are people in the world!A few years ago the Internet was shaken by what digital marketers dubbed ‘Mobilegeddon’. This term arose when Google announced it would be modi...Read more...
Why you should use the Robots.txt carefully... The robots.txt file has been around since 1994! Its purpose is to tell search engines such as Google what areas of a website can be crawled by web robots (also known as Web Wanderers, Crawlers, or Spiders) to harvest information (or index) to store for searching. More information about the robots.t...Read more...