March 25th, 2022 Posted in Ethical/Eco
The Green Claims Code and ‘greenwashing’
With more and more people wanting to spend their money with environmentally friendly suppliers, some unscrupulous companies have been trying to mislead us. The Green Claims Code from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is a way of combatting this. This works two ways for us small business owners – trying to be more eco […]
March 7th, 2022 Posted in Web Development, WordPress
Green hosting: Making a gym website 10x faster
A gym owner recently asked me to look at why his site was loading slow – our tests showed an average of around 20s. This is way too long and would be putting off potential clients as many would leave before the site even loaded. A combination of better specified hosting, caching and some tweaks […]
February 7th, 2022 Posted in Ethical/Eco
Easy ethical switches for your business
Here are some easy switches I’ve made to help Intention be more ethical when choosing banking, broadband and mobile phones. More detail at https://byintention.co/easy-ethical-switches-for-your-business/
November 1st, 2021 Posted in Business, Web Design
What is ethical web design?
What do we mean when we talk about ethical web design? For me it breaks down into what we do, who we do it for and how we do it. Ethics have a role to play in all these decisions – read more at Intention.
October 4th, 2021 Posted in Web Development
Simple guide to Domain Name System (DNS) settings
One of the most complicated bits of getting a website and email sorted can be setting up the domain name to point to the right places. Find out some common scenarios here.
August 15th, 2021 Posted in Computer
Ubuntu Linux for gaming in 2021
Setting up a dual booted gaming PC with Ubuntu Linux was a breeze in 2021 – here are my notes and links