For our sister website, Maintainawebsite.com, we designed a clever logo which can appear initially as one thing but then you see it can be two. What do you see when you look at the logo? The logo represents a spanner and a mouse to show we provide a service to maintain websites.
Read MoreLast Sunday, five of us headed out for a 23 mile hike across the Chiltern hills along the Ridgeway walk. Finding a hilly area around Hertfordshire where we all can get to relatively easily, is pretty hard. The Ridgeway had a few hills but is mainly a woodland area. We completed 1/4 of the full Ridgeway […]
Read MoreWith the 3 Peaks Challenge rapidly approaching, the enormity of the challenge is really starting to kick in. I’ve started to get some of the gear I need: walking boots, waterproof jacket and trousers etc.; I just need to wear them in a bit before the big day. The marathon distance walk scheduled for this […]
Read MoreYour users don’t see of your website as its component parts, so neither should you – at least, not all the time. A website is the sum of its parts If you only think about your website as a collection of parts (eg. ecommerce, blog, photo gallery, online booking system), the overall impression to your […]
Read MoreI’m not sure what I’ve let myself in for, but on 28-29th June 2014 I will embark on the Three Peaks Challenge in aid of Cancer Research UK and the British Heart Foundation, alongside a team of 9. The Three Peaks Challenge involves climbing the highest mountains of Scotland, England and Wales within 24 hours, which […]
Read MoreThe simple answer is: from the start. Who’d use my website? I recently read an article called Why your business needs a website (2012) on the theguardian.com, which states that 60% of small businesses in the UK still have no online presence at all. This is surprisingly high, as a study by Search Engine Land (2012) shows 85% […]
Read MoreWhat is SEO? SEO is the practice of optimising your website to allow search engines such as Google and Bing to figure out what the website’s about and list it according to search terms and popularity in search results. Optimising your site for search is a relatively easy, but time consuming process. A combination of factors […]
Read MoreWe thought we’d take a minute to explain the GarnerTech logo, as created by our graphic designer, Lisa Garner. To the untrained eye, it may look like a funky, abstract, 3D cube, but the clues are there if you know what you’re looking for. Nested on two different planes within the logo are the company […]
Read MoreRemember this clip from Spaceballs? It may be April 1st, but believe it or not this is still one of the most used passwords. Each year SpashData compiles a list of the most commonly used worst passwords. 2013 was no better on balance than previous years, which is surprising given all the media coverage surrounding us […]
Read MoreOn 4th November 2013, Oracle announced the future for GlassFish. GlassFish Open Source Edition 4.1 will be released in 2014, however the commercial edition (Oracle GlassFish Server) will no longer be supported. For production, meaning Java EE 7 applications which already use GlassFish, you either stick with an unsupported platform or find an alternative solution. That […]
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