ECHR ruling – Employers monitoring and reading your work email

It is not uncommon for employees, at every level, to use their work email address to send personal messages to friends and family. A recent case at the European Court of Human Rights has put some panic amongst employers and employees. In a landmark ruling by the ECHR, the judges found the courts in Romania … Read more

SEO Strategy: Targeted Marketing (and how to avoid losing all your customers)

Most SEO companies are hired with one, very vague, responsibility: set up an SEO plan, and achieve results. In almost no other industry, including in marketing, would most companies be happy handing off their entire customer communications and source of profit. Almost all SEO agencies will offer the same guarantees, and the same recommendations of … Read more

Magento 1.x retirement – less than 15 months away

Magento, the open-source e-commerce platform was officially first released March 31, 2008; 9 years ago. Soon Magento will only be supporting version 2.x and above. Given that there are hundreds of thousands of sites using Magento. According to Aionhill, by May 2017, Magento 2 has gained a significant move forward in the Top one million, 523 … Read more

Secure Websites – HTTPS, SSL, and Let’s Encrypt

Many websites are switching to HTTPS, a secure website. Including us! You can see in your URL bar, that our website address now has a small padlock. This indicates that all the communications between you and our server is encrypted and much harder, or impossible, to view what is being sent and received. How TLS/SSL/HTTPS … Read more

Cisco SPA-3102 and FreePBX (UK) with Caller ID

The CISCO (or even Netgear) SPA-3102 was a Voice Gateway device, used to convert between the POTS (Plain Old Telephone System) and a VOIP server. The device is very much end-of-life, and although not sold new, is widely available and still very popular. There are many online guides for using the SPA-3102, but since it … Read more

Do it the RIGHT way

As some might say, “There’s more than one way to skin a cat”, or as the infamous Perl motto goes; “There’s more than one way to do it“. Almost all problems have more than one solution – some more obvious than others. To continue the theme, if all you have is a hammer, everything looks … Read more

BT Expedite, Fresca, Mercatus support and migration

We can help! BT Expedite, the retail software division within the BT Group, is still used by a number of large retail stores for both their offline and online retailing. Originally marketed as BT Fresca back in the early years of the internet in ‘the year 2000’, it was sold to BT in 2008 as … Read more

eCommerce Platforms 2017

As always, there is a huge number of options when considering an eCommerce platform. Not least of all, matching the features and requirements for the running of the site – but also the theming and design, as well as handling ongoing management. We’ve worked with many of the options available, and detailed some of the … Read more

New frag.co.uk Website Design

We’ve put together a brand-new website, including migrating all our existing content and comments, as well as introducing some new content. We have chosen a simple WordPress site, keeping to simple material design. Of course, we have opted for an entirely responsive design to ensure desktop, mobile and tablet support within one site.

How important is content vs style of your site?

If you’re considering having a website for your company; there’s plenty of decisions to make – from which company to host with, and who should design and code your website, or whether to make it yourself. If you’re thinking of writing a website yourself, don’t fall into the trap of site generators and especially content … Read more