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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...
A Guide to the CSS Flexbox The new CSS Flexbox Layout (Flexible Box) module aims at providing a more efficient way to lay out, align and distribute space among items in a container, even when their size is unknown and/or dynamic (thus the word "flex"). The main idea behind the flex layout is to give the container the ability...Read more...
Preventing emails from being labeled as 'Spam' Sometimes you may face the frustration of having your emails marked as Spam in your customer email boxes. There are often a number of reasons why this might be the case, sometimes if can simply boil down to the words used in the body of your email, or if you insert hyperlinks / certain attachment ...Read more...
Facebook blocks users from uploading videos with copyrighted music As of 2017 Facebook is tightening the ropes on unlicensed music... In late 2016 Facebook developed an advanced copyright identification system similar to Youtube's looking to find videos with unlicensed music... In short, Facebook want to ensure they are not on the wrong end of an artist fight. Thi...Read more...
Google Tag Manager in a nutshell Google Tag Manager is an exciting tool if you are a digital marketer, but what does it mean for customers with 'regular' websites? We explore what Google Tag Manager is and what it can do... So what is Google Tag Manager? In a nutshell, Google Tag Manager is a one-bucket solution that allows users...Read more...
What is an SSL Certificate? SSL Certificates are small data files that digitally bind a cryptographic key to a company's details. When installed on a web server, it activates the padlock and the https protocol and allows secure connections from a web server to a browser. Typically, SSL is used to secure credit card transaction...Read more...
Google's top 2016 searches revealed Google has released its annual list of the year's most popular searches, offering another simple, but revealing glimpse into the World's psyche. In 2016, money, music, and natural disasters took up the top three spots in the form of the searches “Powerball,” “Prince,” and &ld...Read more...
The Perfect Full Page Background Image Our clients often require websites builds with full-screen background images or full-screen image slideshows. Pre-CSS3 we had to use a combination of CSS tricks, JQuery and even Flash, but now CSS3 is widely supported across all browsers/devices we can simply use the 'background-size' property. The...Read more...
How Much Should a Website Cost? Pricing a website isn't as easy as you may think... At DigitalFlare, we regularly receive questions from people who want to know, 'Exactly what do websites cost?' And like asking how long a piece of string is, it is a question that really has no black and white answer. DigitalFlare have been build...Read more...
We're upgrading MySQL5.1 to MySQL5.5 As a continued effort to provide the latest software for both security and performance, we are upgrading MySQL from version 5.1.57 to 5.5.25a over the next few weeks.We are not expecting any downtime during the update, or any compatibility issues with any of our websites....Read more...
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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...
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 user...
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 informatio...
Illustrator gives free drawing lessons to inspire kids during the Coronavirus isolation period Following the closure of the schools and with children now stuck at home in the UK, parents will be wondering how to keep them busy over the coming weeks. That's why our friends at 'Creative Bloq' and...
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