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Recently, I’ve been speaking with an old client. I designed his website for him several years ago and provided him with an introduction to Google Analytics as part of that service. Now, as with many of my clients, since the day his website launched, he has never logged...
Recruitment is big business, it always has been and it’s becoming an increasingly desirable industry in which to work. Why? because the adoption of social media, job sites, Linkedin and all the other glorious recruitment channels means that overheads (costs) are dropping & scale is increasing as recruiters...
Google Page Speed Insights is a relatively new tool by Google. It checks the speed of your site, delivered on both mobile & desktop devices. Clearly, Google uses this information to help them rank websites – those that perform poorly on mobile speed tests will be given a...
We’ve all had that ‘holy sh*t’ moment, where you’ve been happily updating your WordPress website, perhaps updating a few plugins and doing a bit of housekeeping. If you’re like me, you’ll spend hours tinkering with lots of little areas of the site before committing your changes and backing...
As a website owner, speed is everything to me. I look for ways to improve the performance of my website even when it’s performing well. It’s this constant pursuit for perfection that drives me to come back to Netshock on a daily basis to write articles and to...
There are a few ways to go about setting up your new website. You COULD build it yourself, slowly grow followers & eventually end up with a popular and profitable blog or website. To be honest, I think that this is the best way to go about the...
Recently, I have been working with Phonegap to build a mobile app for one of my friends. As i’ve discussed previously, the main advantage of Phonegap is that it’s extremely easy to learn, meaning that anyone can build their own mobile app, whether they have any programming experience...
I’ve been looking at ways to develop my skill set recently. I already have a pretty solid grounding in web infrastructure (Ubuntu server, Apache, PHP) and I wanted to extend my reach to mobile apps. To start with, I just want one of my websites to be native...
Netshock has had a mobile app for some time but I will be the first to admit that it sucked. It used the technology blog RSS feed to pull articles through to the app. If you selected one of those articles, it simply redirected you to the web...
Recent developments in the software world have brought about a change in the way software is developed. When it comes to software development everyone tends to follow a methodology, knowingly or otherwise. Software developers working on a product in a big company will work to a pre-defined set of...
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