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Prevent a form being used in another country (PHP Geo Script) Website form spam and preventing SMTP mail-server abuse will always be a thorn in the side of a business. Anti-spam and anti-bot methods help prevent spam, but they do not irradiate it completely. We always recommend installing and using the Google ReCapture plugin to help prevent form abuse and bot...Read more...
Professional Website Proofreading with Grammerly This year we are happy to announce a new service: professional proofreading of your website content. We use tools such as Grammarly to detect errors in spelling and grammar and then correct them where required. If you have a website (even if we did not build it), we would be happy to analyse your w...Read more...
We are now running CloudLinux on our cPanel servers! Over the last few months, DigitalFlare has rolled out CloudLinux on most of our cPanel web servers. CloudLinux is a Linux-based operating system designed to give shared hosting providers a more stable and secure OS. Essentially a set of kernel modifications to the Linux distribution, CloudLinux imp...Read more...
Responsive YouTube Embed Have you ever tried to make a YouTube video responsive? Surprisingly, YouTube does not provide a responsive embed function. All the embed options only offer a fixed width/height, which can be problematic on tablets/mobiles etc. Since all our website builds are now responsive - we have found a solut...Read more...
Sans-serif logo design revolution Whilst working on a new logo design for a client - we were asked to keep the logo simple and text-based (typographic) yet with a luxury feel. While researching, it quickly became apparent that many luxury brands (particularly fashion houses) have all started to converge... They have been swapping th...Read more...
Open Graph: How to Drive More Social Media Traffic to Your Website Social media networks can be a significant traffic driver to a website, so it is always in your best interest to optimise your presence on them by adding Open Graph tags to your pages. So what is Open Graph? "Open Graph enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph." - This is how...Read more...
Embedding Music and Video on your Website We look at a selection of embed scripts to allow you to place video, audio and other content into your website... But importantly, the below examples are all responsive versions of embed scripts which are not always the 'default'. In addition to the hands, there are often customization parameters wh...Read more...
New website launch: FC Drainage The new website launched this weekend! www.fcdrainagesolutions.com - FC Drainage Solutions offer a 24h Emergency call-out service to resolve your drainage or plumbing drama day or night... But they also carry out CCTV Surveys, Plumbing, Heating, Tanker Services etc... The new site is mobile-fri...Read more...
Positioning HTML text on background images A great slider / 'Hero Box' or banner can add interest and set the tone of a website, and convey some meaning. Eye-tracking research has shown that people are attracted to information-carrying photos - but positioning HTML text on an image isn't straightforward in responsive web design. (Responsive ...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 people worldwide!A few years ago, the Internet was shaken by what digital marketers dubbed 'Mobilegeddon'. This term arose when Google announced it would modify its algorithm to favour mobile-...Read more...