Why the Government needs coders: the devil is in the detail

Our household is currently going around in circles as to whether we think the proposed return to school the week after next is a good idea. The dilema for us is that there just isn't very much detail about the whole thing yet - and I do love detail. Today a…

Taking your expertise online: how to run your business remotely

If you usually work face to face, what options are open to you in 2020 to move online?

Are NHSX being naive? And when will they delete our data?

Plans are being announced for the UK's contact tracing smarphone app, which will alert people when someone they've been near has started showing symptoms of COVID-19. Apple and Google have both suggested decentralised approaches to this, where you - by updating the app - notify the world that you're showing symptoms and…

Food Home Delivery services now on Hallshire.com

HallsHire.com has been helping the world find event venues for almost 20 years. Initially solely about village halls, it now includes various community centres and conference venues. As the world however, struggles to function with the COVID-19 pandemic turning lives upside down, we've added a new feature to HallsHire.com to help with…

How to help elderly relatives keep intouch with video calls

During this COVID-19 chaos, get your grandparents a smartphone so they can keep in touch.

Keeping motivated when the schools close: class room stand ups

Have a daily video call with your child's class mates so they can stay connected to school.

Notifications failing for some users on Invision Community forums

Our client OilPrice.com use InvisionCommunity to power their very popular oil and energy discussion forums. However, after a recent upgrade to version 4.4.10, we had reports that some users were clicking the popular bell icon to view notifications and encountering an error. The box that would normally display the notifications was instead…

Is your website displaying an insecure message TODAY?

It is estimated around 3,000,000 websites will be effected today by a bug in Let's Encrypt meaning that SSL certificates need to be cancelled and new ones installed.

Am I the last person to know why Google Images was invented?

It's been 20 years (somehow) since Jennifer Lopez inspired Google Image search.

Press Release: CropFarmer.app becomes FarmBudgets.com

Farm budgeting platform cropfarmer.app has undergone a rebrand to become FarmBudgets.com. Tom Freeman, co-founder of Farmbudgets said today: We were delighted to be able to acquire the domain name FarmBudgets.com which makes the perfect home for our farm budgeting tool. Not only does it make it clearer what the primary…

“We need a good search”: strategies we’ve employed to give clients more powerful search tools and granular control

When we're planning a new website for someone, one of the requirements we often hear in the brief is that "it needs to have a good search".  When I heard that line from a client last week, it ended up that their current keyword search was linked to a 3rd…

Stripe roll out changes to refund fees for old customers

Stripe are needing to make changes to how you're charged when you issue a refund to your customers.