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Reading Time: < 1 minute Modern websites need the speed and stability that traditional single server hosting struggles to provide on a consistent basis. By combining multiple servers to handle your website traffic and data in a cloud optimised cluster, your website is not affected by any spikes in traffic or any technical issues that may occur with a single server.…

Reading Time: 2 minutes The latest version of WordPress has just been released and a modern new design. Here’s a quick rundown on what’s new in WordPress 3.8: Modern aesthetic The new WordPress dashboard has a fresh, uncluttered design that embraces clarity and simplicity. Clean typography The Open Sans typeface provides simple, friendly text that is optimised for both…

Reading Time: 2 minutes The latest version of WordPress has just been released and with it comes some nice new features, enhancements and bug fixes. Here’s a quick rundown on what’s new in WordPress 3.7: Automatic Updates Most WordPress sites are now able to be automatically updated in the background. These automatic updates only apply to maintenance and security…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Google Webmaster Tools are a set of tools offered by Google to give website owners a insight into how their website is seen by the search engine. It provides reports and data that can help you understand how different pages on your website are ranking and appearing in search results. Google also reports on errors…

Reading Time: < 1 minute If you’ve done a page speed test on a website like GT Metrix, you might have come across a suggestion to remove query strings from static resources. If you right click > view source on your website, you may well see a number of URLs for your css or javascript files similar to http://www.mydomainname.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js?ver=1.10.2. The…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Making the images in your posts and pages on your WordPress website is actually quite simple. Making your images responsive is a case of allowing your images to adjust to the width of their container. For example, when an image is viewed on a desktop computer, it’s width can be 100%, but when viewed on…

Reading Time: 3 minutes With page speed becoming such an important ranking factor in the search engines, it is highly recommended that you try and make your website load as fast as possible. Nobody likes a slow website, and may visitors will often abandon your website and go elsewhere if your site is taking too long to load. Fortunately,…

Reading Time: < 1 minute Link building is a key component of any successful SEO campaign as for search engines, links are very much like the streets between web pages. Using sophisticated link analysis, the search engines can work out how various web pages relate to each other. For many years, search engines have used links back to websites as…

Reading Time: < 1 minute There is currently an ongoing botnet attack targeting WordPress websites with the username “admin”. Whilst the specific goal of the attack is unknown, botnets can be used to perform DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks, send spam and perform a number of other illegal activities. The botnet attack is rumoured to using more than 90,000…