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Importance of Updating/Upgrading Your Website

With the recent attack on the Royal Navy website I thought it prudent to explain the importance of upgrading and updating your website, not only for security reasons to prevent attacks like this but...

Tips for Using The Joomla Content Manager and Editor

These are some of my favourite handy tips in using the editor within the Joomla Content Management system. I hope to add to this list as time goes on so be sure to check back now and again for more,...

Why You Should Not Copy and Paste from Word into Your Content Management System

It is very common for website owners to create or be given content in a Microsoft Word document and they copy and paste that directly from Word into the content management system. This is not the...

Different Types of Web Site Hosting – Which is Best for You

Following on from my recent posts Static or Dynamic (Content Managed) Website and Choosing the Right Type of Website Design, part 3 of my Choosing the Right Website Series focuses on the different...

Choosing the Right Type of Website Design

Following on from my recent post on Static or Dynamic (Content Managed) Website - Which is Best? part 2 of my Choosing the Right Website Series focuses on the differences between various design...

Static or Dynamic (Content Managed) Website – Which One is Best

Dynamic websites with feature rich content management systems have been around for many, many years now, and offer a lot more features and flexibility compared to static websites, yet so many...

Replace Special Characters with HTML Codes in PHP

I always struggle to properly convert special characters into HTML when adding to a web page or importing into a database… the foreign characters with accents like Umlauts etc.
Although PHP...

Affinity Web Solutions Ltd Changes Name to Amity Web Solutions Ltd

The move was primarily to avoid confusion with another similar sounding company and ensure we continue to stand out from competition. It also gave us an opportunity to re-brand the website and logo...

Gmail Tip: How To Stop Checking Email All The Time

I just wanted to quickly share a good GMail setup I am trialling to help me stop checking email all the time which can be very counter productive (this is a follow up to my Blog asking what the best...

Speed Up Your Website By Using Cache

I recently finished a database intensive website using the Joomla content management system, and upon release the website popularity and therefore high database queries put quite a strain on the site...