Pantone has announced their choice for 2019’s Color of the Year – Living Coral. Since the Pantone Color of the Year has always played a huge influence in branding & packaging design over the years, I am looking forward to seeing how the new Living Coral color gets used over the course of the coming year. […]
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5 Calculators to Simplify AWS Pricing
Figuring out AWS (Amazon Web Services) pricing has become a more pressing concern for companies of all sizes as they increasingly look to leverage the benefits of cloud computing to their advantage. The latest 2018 Q2 cloud report, published by Synergy Research Group, shows AWS maintaining its dominance in the cloud market with a 34 […]
Looking to Fortify Your WordPress Website’s Security? Try MalCare Security Plugin!
30% of sites on the internet are being powered by WordPress today – making it the most popular website-building tool. With its vast popularity, it is not surprising that WordPress is an alluring target for hackers. A hacked website can be misused to steal user data, and financial information and even spread misinformation along with […]
Google Confirms: Too Many 5xx Errors Will Slow Down Your Website’s Crawl Rate
Errors on your website are generally a bad thing – and while Google has always said that website errors aren’t a good thing – they’ve never specifically stated that those errors will play any role in your website’s crawl & indexing rates. However a recent question has gotten confirmation that 5xx errors will cause a slow […]
Facebook No Longer Banning Cryptocurrency Ads
There’s a bit of a global ban on cryptocurrency related advertisements right now. Google, Twitter, and Apple have all banned cryptocurrency ads across all of their platforms. Facebook did the same thing at the start of 2018 – however they always said there were plans to revisit this ban in the future. Luckily the future […]
No Website Is Too Small To Hack
Cyberattacks suck – and as webmasters we have to deal with a lot of them. All the time. From SoakSoak, to WannaCry, malware and cyber attacks have been on the rise for years. The SiteLock Website Security Report for Q1 2018 recently showed that 1% of sampled sites are infected – which sounds like a […]
Over 70 Million Fake Twitter Profiles Suspended!
Fake followers has always been a bit of a pet peeve of mine – something I have talked about before. Over the past year Instagram and Facebook have began various clean-up campaigns. Working diligently to remove all the fake profiles from their social media networks. Twitter has now joined the fake profile clean-up crew, announcing […]
Yahoo Messenger Shuts Down This Month – After 20 Years of Service
Saying Goodbye is never fun, and for those of us “old-school webmasters” – we’ve had to say goodbye to many things. MSN Messenger, AIM, Google Authorship, cPanel’s X3 theme – just to name a few. Many of us grew up using these apps and platforms, and as such it’s always a sad day when we […]
ServerPronto Acquires Hosting Business Unit from BareMetalCloud.com
ServerPronto, a dedicated server, and cloud hosting provider, has announced today it has completed its acquisition of BareMetalCloud.com’s hosting business unit. Users of the BareMetalCloud platform experienced a seamless transition as both companies worked closely together to complete the transaction. In addition, BareMetalCloud customers will now have access to all ServerPronto products, including Disaster Recovery, […]
Google My Business Now Allows Video Uploads
Visual media goes a long way with Google My Business listings – with some businesses reporting that their photos produce the majority of their business listing views. A fact that only makes sense when you consider the importance that photos play when selecting a restaurant for a dinner date, a beauty salon for hair treatment, […]
Facebook’s Recent News Feed Update Kills Organic Reach for Business Pages
Facebook is constantly rolling out new teaks to their news feed algorithm – and it seems that every-time one of these Facebook news feed updates comes out – business owners suffer. This last week yet another update was announced via a post by Mark Zuckerberg himself where he talks about Facebook’s move to “helping you […]
Facebook Starts To Fight Against Engagement Bait Posts
Wondering why your engagement-request posts are suddenly not performing the way they used to? In an algorithm update today – Facebook has announced that engagement-baiting posts will see a demotion in engagements and reach. This applies to posts that request likes or shares to enter a contest, votes on something, or mere requests to “LIKE […]
Pantone Announces Ultra Violet as Color Of The Year for 2018
Pantone has announced the official color of the year for 2018, and I’m super excited about it – since the new Pantone color of the year is Ultra Violet. Since the Pantone Color of the Year has always played a huge influence in branding & packaging design over the years, and I am excited to […]
Free Daily Horoscope Widget API & JSON Feed
Horoscope’s are read by millions of people every single day, and a lot of webmasters and bloggers look to add a horoscope widget to their website. However many of these widgets aren’t very customizable, or are way too bulky. So Morten Jensen decided to step in and make a custom API that lets any webmaster […]
GoDaddy Launches A Redesigned Managed WordPress Hosting Service
GoDaddy has been in the managed WordPress hosting game for a while, and now they have stepped their game up even further by releasing the Pro WordPress platform – which lets you host and manage multiple sites. The Pro WordPress platform from GoDaddy includes PHP 7.1 as a default, with Kubernetes container management, dedicated resources, […]
Top 10 Most Clicked Phishing Email Subjects
As we reach towards the end of 2017 the concern for our online security & personal privacy grows greater than ever. Hacking attacks like the recent Equifax breach, coupled with personal attacks such as the WannaCry attacks, are enough to have everyone on edge about their online privacy & security. A great way to start […]
7 Free Content Tools to Boost Your Marketing
Not too long ago, blogs were better known as online personal diaries or journals open for public viewing and reading. Blogs contain any topic, under and over the sun. Nowadays, blogs are used as an effective marketing tool online, and it doesn’t matter which industry the company belongs. Startups businesses to big time corporate companies […]
Google AdWords Bans Merchant Cash Advance Ads
Google has been fighting an ongoing battle against payday loans for many years now. In-fact they even have an algorithm dedicated to fighting payday loans. Unfortunately the algorithm has went a bit off-track recently, and it took merchant cash advances down with it. As you can see in the screenshot below, a search for merchant cash […]
Infographic: Not Everyone Makes A Great Customer
Not everyone is a good customer, and the team over at The Website Group know’s this all too well. They’ve been designing professional websites since 2011, and over the years they have met their fare share of bad customers. As such they’ve put together the following infographic, which is sure to put a smile on every […]
5 Trending Tools To Help You Automate Your Software Quality Assurance
Every software that is released in the market goes through a rigorous testing phase. During the development phase, software is generally tested several times, often manually. Following that most companies utilize automated testing tools to eliminate the occurrence of any errors that may not get noticed by the human eye during manual tests. Apart from […]