Category: Business
January 12th, 2017 Posted in Business, Web Development, WordPress
PHP development – Systems vs custom made
We’ve used a variety of PHP content management and ecommerce systems over the years and have gone in the direction of using existing systems rather than creating custom made systems for clients. We chose this route as using a ready made starting point reduces development costs and theoretically makes life easier when it comes to […]
November 5th, 2016 Posted in Business, Life Hacks
‘Accountability buddy’ trial for productivity
My brother and I have recently tried an ‘accountability buddy’ system to help us both be more productive. We have been having a weekly 30 minute call to see how we are progressing with tasks that we set ourselves for the following week and also self care like getting enough sleep, eating and exercising. Results […]
May 25th, 2016 Posted in Business, Computer, Web Design, Web Development, WordPress
Google Pagespeed tweaks for WordPress
Site speed is now an important signal of site quality to Google and our SEO guy has started running sites through the Google Pagespeed tool when assessing sites for clients. This usually throws up the same issues with WordPress sites and I’ve made some notes on how to fix these. With our own server we […]
The Curse of User Generated Content
‘User Generated Content’. A lovely phrase dreamed up by marketing people getting all excited about their website visitors creating fresh new content. This golden content would then propel them to the heights of Google with almost no effort required by them. ‘Building a community’. The Holy Grail of internet marketing. Not so fast. While this […]
The “Four Hour Work Week” and the Service Industry
What Is the Four Hour Work Week? I recently read Tim Ferriss’s Four Hour Work Week, and got rather excited afterwards. He talks about outsourcing, creating better processes and removing yourself from your business so you can do the things you actually want to do with your life instead of working. Great ideas. I have […]
New website brand launched – Horsey-Sites.co.uk
FCS Websites have just launched a new website brand offering equestrian web design to horsey businesses and organisations in the Nottingham area and beyond. We are using a modified WordPress setup to offer low cost websites to the equine industry after discovering that many local stables and riding schools don’t have a website, or have […]