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How to write a web design brief
Web Design Briefs are the first step towards seeing your new website in action. In this article we give our best tips on how to write a clear and effective web design brief for your designers.
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10 Steps to a Secure WordPress Website
Having your website hacked, can be costly not only in terms of the time to secure and clean it, but in terms of lost business and credibility. This great little article gives some advice on how you can do your bit to keep hackers from damaging your business.
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How a Blog can build your business offline as well as online
It’s well known that blogs can be great for Google, great for driving your Social Media presence and a fantastic way to boost credibility and engage with your audience, but ever realised they can be just as useful offline?
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Your website and Mobile Phones, what you need to know
Mobile phone technology has come a long way and with the success of Smart Phones such as Blackberry, iPhone and Google’s Android accessing websites from your phone has become common place. But with change comes buzz words: “mobile site”, “mobile compatible”, “responsive”. We look at the differences and what they might mean to you.
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Google Analytics: Bounce Rates explained
Bounce Rate is a term that you may have seen on your website's Google Analytics report, or heard about from your web designer when talking about search engine optimization, but what actually is it and should you really care?
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Bored of Cookies and your website? Try these…
Want an alternative to all this talk about Cookies on your website? Here at FL1, we've come up with the perfect alternative...
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The new EU Website Cookie Law – Is your website legal?
On the 26th May 2011 the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) passed a law that in the UK all websites who use cookies need to allow their user’s to Opt-Out. So is your website legal?
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Everything you need to know about Google Page Rank
Google PageRank (PR) is a measure from 0 -10 of how important Google thinks a webpage is. In Google's eyes a web page with a PageRank of 10/10 is very important and a web page with a PageRank of 0/10 is not very important. But why is Google Page Rank important at all?
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St Albans Networking Group, TONIGHT; learn how to go iPaperless at the County Club
St Albans Networking Group, TONIGHT; learn how to go iPaperless at the County Club. iPaperless - a practical guide to using the iPad for business with Adrian Dixon from AdNexus.
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Google Places Is Over, Company Makes Google+ The Center Of Gravity For Local Search
When Google+ and Google+ Pages for business were introduced a little less than a year ago many people in the local search arena began anticipating the day when Google would merge or integrate Google Places and Google+ Pages. Well, today is that day.
E-commerce
St Albans Networking Group, TONIGHT at a NEW Venue
St Albans Networking Group, TONIGHT at a NEW Venue The May 21 meeting will be at a new location that we are trying out: The County Club, 29 Ridgmont Road, St Albans, Hertfordshire AL1 3AG.
Technology
Dropbox vs Google Drive, first impressions
Google launched its new competitor to Dropbox this week, with integration with Google Docs and pricing to challenge Dropbox. Being an avid fan of Dropbox we just had to take a look, so here's what we thought.
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Smilies have no place in business, or do they? ;-)
Smilies aren’t a new thing by any stretch of the imagination, yet using them in the commercial world is taboo. We take a look at why...
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Tonight at St Albans Networking Group, Learn the 12 drivers of Profitable and Sustainable Growth
We're at the St Albans Networking Group Tonight at the White Hart Hotel, St Albans. Tonight: 12 Drivers of Profitable and Sustainable Growth with Jim Rathbone of Rathbone Results.