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What are the 7 Principles of GDPR?
Are you confused about the general data protection regulation? We break down the seven key principles behind GDPR and explain why compliance is important for your business when it comes to building trust with customers.
What is accessibility in web design
Disabled consumers represent a £200 billion market, yet many websites lack minimum accessibility solutions. We explain how business owners can improve their engagement with the roughly 13 million people who have some form of disability and boost their bottom line.
Why is my website not secure?
Why is my website not secure? Don’t know your http from your https? Your website’s integrity and your business reputation could be at risk if your site isn’t secure. We examine the importance of a padlock and how we can help keep the bad guys at bay.
What are the 7 Principles of GDPR?
Are you confused about the general data protection regulation? We break down the seven key principles behind GDPR and explain why compliance is important for your business when it comes to building trust with customers.
What is accessibility in web design
Disabled consumers represent a £200 billion market, yet many websites lack minimum accessibility solutions. We explain how business owners can improve their engagement with the roughly 13 million people who have some form of disability and boost their bottom line.
Why is my website not secure?
Why is my website not secure? Don’t know your http from your https? Your website’s integrity and your business reputation could be at risk if your site isn’t secure. We examine the importance of a padlock and how we can help keep the bad guys at bay.
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.
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What are the 7 Principles of GDPR?
Are you confused about the general data protection regulation? We break down the seven key principles behind GDPR and explain why compliance is important for your business when it comes to building trust with customers.
What is accessibility in web design
Disabled consumers represent a £200 billion market, yet many websites lack minimum accessibility solutions. We explain how business owners can improve their engagement with the roughly 13 million people who have some form of disability and boost their bottom line.
Why is my website not secure?
Why is my website not secure? Don’t know your http from your https? Your website’s integrity and your business reputation could be at risk if your site isn’t secure. We examine the importance of a padlock and how we can help keep the bad guys at bay.
How to increase conversions on your website
Even the most beautifully crafted website can’t turn visitors into sales on its own. So, we’ve put together a list of seven nifty ways that will help you increase conversion rates on your site.
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.
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
Get in contact with us Get in contact with Digital Technology Labs.Reduce your bounce rate Download guide to reducing your bounce rate.Discovery call Click here to book your complimentary discovery call with DTL. I set myself the task of getting historic temperature...
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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