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When building a website, there's a lot to consider. There’s the design of course, plus any special features and functionality – and what many people forget – how to host it. Much like building a home, you can pick out all the lovely furniture you like, but at the
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We’ve all heard of voice search technology, and there’s a strong chance you’ve even used it. It’s projected to have an imminent impact, with forecasted figures highlighting an expected 8.4bn voice-activated devices worldwide by 2024 and voice-prompted ecommerce set to break £3.5bn
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While a return to schools might mean children are spending less time attached to computers and devices, the last year of virtual home schooling has fast-tracked a lot of youngsters’ digital education. For this reason, it’s important to teach children how to use the internet responsibly, and the
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‘Online shopping is killing the high street’ – an idea that’s repeated so often, it’s almost universally accepted as the truth. But is this an accurate statement?
A casual glance at the market suggests yes, with another big-name store in crisis every few months, and reports of the
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As a rule, every device or server that’s directly connected to the Internet has
a unique IP address which is then used for 1:1 communication. This is known as
unicast technology.
Here, a sender addresses a dedicated receiver directly, meaning that the request
for a website, for example,
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Office employees working from home was hardly a new concept when the first lockdown was announced, but the prospect of an entire company workforce sitting at home on their laptops posed a challenge to even the most prepared organisations.
Though the powerful computers, cloud-based technologies and fast internet connections
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Just as the economy started to get back on its feet and businesses started to
consider bringing their workers back to the office – lockdown was imposed
again.
With technological advances like cloud computing
[https://www.fasthosts.co.uk/cloud-servers], faster broadband and improved
mobile devices, the trend toward employee
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Effective page load times are perhaps one of the most vital elements of any website to get right. It’s an incredibly important factor for our customers – especially those seeking reliable web hosting. Whenever possible, you should be looking for ways to shave off even a hundred milliseconds or two
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If your business has entered the exciting but turbulent world of ecommerce, you’re undoubtedly aware of how challenging it can be.
Running a website and fishing for those sales in an ever-changing environment means that ecommerce websites have to constantly update themselves to remain relevant and compete with
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When thinking about websites and how they’re designed, it’s useful to differentiate between static and dynamic sites. Generally, static sites display HTML-based content stored on a server, but can only be updated by a developer changing the source code. Dynamic websites, by contrast, are much easier to
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Databases are a key tool for anyone who wishes to organise their data
efficiently. Relational databases are a simple and intuitive method of
formulating information into tables that can be linked, based on data that is
common to each. They enable a user to easily apply data from many different
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Well thought-out navigation can make the difference between a visitor spending
30 seconds or one hour on your website. If your navigation is too complex or
poorly designed, visitors will be put off quickly and may decide to stop
exploring your site.
In other words, properly planned navigation is
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If you’ve recently built a new website, or you’re still tossing around the idea,
there’s one topic you should definitely brush up on: SEO. In a nutshell, search
engine optimisation is the process of making certain changes and optimisations
to your website to help it rank higher
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Everyone hates spam. Not only is it annoying, but it’s also potentially
dangerous.
When your phone vibrates and you wonder who the email’s from, often it’s some
company that you’ve never heard of trying to sell you something that you don’t
want. Even if you
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It’s been long established that an online presence is crucial for a company in the modern business environment. So when you come to building an ecommerce website, you need to get off on the right foot (not to brag, but our Ecommerce Website Builder is super easy to use!
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