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General Data Protection Regulations Compliance – May 2018

You may have heard that in May 2018 a new EU directive, General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), comes in to force which deals with user rights regarding how businesses store and use their personal data. These posts provide a good overview from a technical perspective: https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/gdpr-compliance/ https://www.willows-consulting.com/gdpr-for-ecommerce/ In many cases websites will most likely need

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Google to prioritise mobile-friendly websites in Poole rankings

Google to prioritise mobile-friendly websites in Poole rankings

Google recently announced: “Starting April 21, we will be expanding our use of mobile-friendliness as a ranking signal. This change will affect mobile searches in all languages worldwide and will have a significant impact in our search results.” In the last few years, as the use of mobile and tablets has grown, there has been

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Excellent ICO cookie consent plugin for all websites

Excellent ICO cookie consent plugin for all websites

There has been a lot of talk recently about the ICO’s new cookie regulations.  Whilst I’m not necessarily in favour of the law, I would rather be safe and always want to adhere to the best business and web practices. SilkTide’s cookie consent solution is an excellent opt-in notification tool which is open-source, configurable and

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Learn web design, web and iOS development online with Treehouse

Learn web design, web and iOS development online with Treehouse

Carsonified’s new online teaching environment Treehouse allows users to learn about web and mobile design and development. Here is the slightly eccentric launch video: Although there are similar services available (Codeacademy and Lynda), Treehouse uses gamification to make the process interactive.  For instance, upon watching a series of videos, users complete quizzes in order to

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Responsive designs for different-sized viewports and device resolutions

Responsive designs for different viewports and devices

Online design blog Smashing Magazine have recently redesigned their website.  With the increased usage of mobile devices over recent years, now is the time to consider a responsive design (or liquid layout) to handle all the different device resolutions. Instead of a fixed width layout which sets the website to a width that matches the

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