Striking, high-resolution images make a website visually appealing and help to attract visitors and hold their attention. But if like many you, or your clients, upload images to a WordPress site without taking the time to optimise them first, your website’s loading speed will suffer. Optimising images is one of the quickest ways to improve […]
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Beginning January 2017, Google Chrome 56 will start showing a warning for unencrypted sites that collect passwords or credit card information, labelling them as “not secure”. According to the official announcement on the Google Security Blog, this is the first step in a “long-term plan to mark all HTTP sites as non-secure.” “A web with […]
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Google has told its top contributors, including Mike Blumenthal, that they are testing a new spam prevention technique for local results called “advanced verification”. The verification process is currently being beta tested in San Diego and only for locksmiths and plumbers. All locksmiths and plumbers currently verified on Google will have to go through the […]
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Are you writing a blog or designing a website and can’t find the right font? Are Arial and Helvetica just not getting the job done? Few people realise the wealth of modern, free to use fonts that are available online through Google Fonts. This incredible resource has more than 800 fonts available at any time, […]
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You’ve come to expect phishing emails that pretend to be your bank. Or offering you Amazon offers. Or telling you your Steam account has been suspended. So when a misspelled email asks for your banking password, or a link points you to “amason.com”, or you get asked to install an attachment to reinstate your account, […]
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At the beginning of May 2015, thousands of webmasters noticed significant changes in their Google rankings – some rising, some falling. Search marketers speculated it might have to do with Panda, Penguin or a new Google update. However, Google later announced that the temporary search volatility wasn’t Panda-related. It took some time before Google officially […]
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The main aim of the London Underground is to get people where they want to go as quickly as possible. Everything is geared towards efficiency, from the font sizes used on signage to the different colours of the tube lines. Although people are quick to complain about delays and closures, in and of itself it’s […]
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We’ve witnessed a rapid evolution of data storage over the last 50 years – from clunky 1-tonne behemoth machines that would barely store a 5-minute mp3 file in the 1960s to thumbnail-sized micro SD cards with capacities of 512 gigabytes today. As the size required to store data has shrunk over the years, the cost […]
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