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The Most Popular Social Media Sites in 2021
Which are the most popular social media platforms and how can you, as a business owner, get the most out of them? The amount of people using social media is mind-blowing. Knowing the figures can help you focus your business advertising.
Dyslexia testing for your website
We have composed some guides to accessibility and dyslexia testing here at DTL, this is a summary of these guides and an introduction to making your site work for people with dyslexia.
2020 Retrospective
Taking the opportunity to look back over the last year in our 2020 retrospective and looking forward to what next year will bring.
The Most Popular Social Media Sites in 2021
Which are the most popular social media platforms and how can you, as a business owner, get the most out of them? The amount of people using social media is mind-blowing. Knowing the figures can help you focus your business advertising.
Dyslexia testing for your website
We have composed some guides to accessibility and dyslexia testing here at DTL, this is a summary of these guides and an introduction to making your site work for people with dyslexia.
2020 Retrospective
Taking the opportunity to look back over the last year in our 2020 retrospective and looking forward to what next year will bring.
With the team working on big projects and figuring out work coming up on the horizon, we have been looking at productivity and streamlining the work process. Our old processes weren’t working and we needed to rethink what we were doing and how we were working. We have adopted Agile Product Management and Kanban to help us streamline our work.
What is an away day anyway?
At Digital Technology Labs, we decided that it would be valuable to us to spend time away from the day to day buzz of the office, away from distracting phone calls and endless emails, to spend concentrated time on future planning and strategising for the business.
Handy hints for a Mac user
HINT 1: CREATE A PDF
You can do this really easily using the print function without having to install any new software.
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2020 Retrospective
Taking the opportunity to look back over the last year in our 2020 retrospective and looking forward to what next year will bring.
Top 5 Benefits of Having an Effective Website
A quick overview of how we’re improving our website, from research, planning, through to a discussion of how we’re going to be building the new site.
How to hide unavailable options on Shopify
A quick overview of how we’re improving our website, from research, planning, through to a discussion of how we’re going to be building the new site.
Improving our website
A quick overview of how we’re improving our website, from research, planning, through to a discussion of how we’re going to be building the new site.
Facing my fear in business planning
A narrative in a day the went bad and then went great, and how I got to the point of forming life goals and writing a business plan. And then how I faced my fear in writing a business plan, with the intend on working out how to achieve my business goals.
Latest experiments
Productivity hack – my calendar
So for this blog post, I would like to present to you a productivity hack, that is really working for me. That is going old school with my calendar. Why go old school? I have various pain points when using digital calendars and reminders: My setup is complex, so...
Hive heating data – An update
Following on from our post on getting historic Hive heating data here: https://www.digitaltechnologylabs.com/2017/12/09/temperature-data-from-hive, I had another go and was able to extract the data again. However, I found that the process still did in fact work, which...
Write a Falling Blocks game in Javascript in 1 hour
Write a Falling Blocks game in Javascript in 1 hour; so a few years ago I wrote a Falling Blocks game in Java, as a Java applet. What I did to write a Falling Blocks game Well I have had it on my long to do list for a long time to rewrite in in Javascript. So last...
SEO performance improvements – an update
SEO performance improvements from last time In the post here, I gave a brief intro to what I've been doing to try and improve SEO and my search engine position. Also know as SERP - or Search Engine Results Page analysis. Well I'm delighted to report I'm now in the top...
Getting historic temperature data from Hive
I set myself the task of getting historic temperature data from Hive, and it turns out it's quite easy - at least to manually extract it. I went into Hive, went to 'My Hive Home', click on 'heating', then scroll down, and it gives the temperature over different...
Latest tutorials
Dyslexia testing for your website
We have composed some guides to accessibility and dyslexia testing here at DTL, this is a summary of these guides and an introduction to making your site work for people with dyslexia.
How to choose the right eCommerce platform
Introduction What is an eCommerce platform? A set of technologies (a platform) in which it has eCommerce capability at its core. i.e. you can take payments for things. And then build your application / online ecommerce site/business, etc on top of it. Benefits of...
How to build a business website for free
How to build a business website for free - I’m going to cover a few methods that can be followed for creating a website for free, and then talk a bit about the advantages and disadvantages of this approach. Approach 1 - The business page route There are many platforms...
Relaxation techniques are important for business
Relaxation techniques are important for business, is something I strongly believe. I’m on a journey to significantly improve my skills at relaxation and continuous practice of those skills. My first step is to collate together various ideas, plans, articles, concepts...
Zoho email archiving how to guide
I was somewhat flummoxed when I ran out of space on my Zoho email account today, and in finding out how to resolve, I decided to write this Zoho email archiving how to guide. So how not to do it I started by thinking that I could drag or copy the email out of Mail on...
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