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How often should you redesign your website?
When digital technology moves so fast, how often should you redesign your website? Find out why SEO, branding and cybersecurity measures should be the first ports of call to make sure your site stays safe, relevant and engaging.
How to Write Content for Your Website
It’s one thing to have a beautifully crafted online website, but if the content isn’t doing its job, potential customers will vote with their feet. Follow our guide to creating cracking content that will reduce your bounce rate and make your site THE place to be.
What Is Responsive Web Design?
Most modern websites automatically adjust to the device being used to view them, thanks to responsive web design (RWD). We examine why it’s important for businesses to have this technology baked in their sites from the start – or risk turning off customers.
How often should you redesign your website?
When digital technology moves so fast, how often should you redesign your website? Find out why SEO, branding and cybersecurity measures should be the first ports of call to make sure your site stays safe, relevant and engaging.
How to Write Content for Your Website
It’s one thing to have a beautifully crafted online website, but if the content isn’t doing its job, potential customers will vote with their feet. Follow our guide to creating cracking content that will reduce your bounce rate and make your site THE place to be.
What Is Responsive Web Design?
Most modern websites automatically adjust to the device being used to view them, thanks to responsive web design (RWD). We examine why it’s important for businesses to have this technology baked in their sites from the start – or risk turning off customers.
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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How often should you redesign your website?
When digital technology moves so fast, how often should you redesign your website? Find out why SEO, branding and cybersecurity measures should be the first ports of call to make sure your site stays safe, relevant and engaging.
How to Write Content for Your Website
It’s one thing to have a beautifully crafted online website, but if the content isn’t doing its job, potential customers will vote with their feet. Follow our guide to creating cracking content that will reduce your bounce rate and make your site THE place to be.
What Is Responsive Web Design?
Most modern websites automatically adjust to the device being used to view them, thanks to responsive web design (RWD). We examine why it’s important for businesses to have this technology baked in their sites from the start – or risk turning off customers.
What Makes a Good Website?
Most businesses have an online presence, but what makes a good website? We take a look at the five key ingredients that will ensure your brand stands out from the crowd for all the right reasons.
Our 10 best Email service providers
From boosting your bottom line to growing your customer base, which are the best email service providers (ESPs) for your business? We list our 10 best, examining their strong points so you don’t have to.
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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