Photobucket allows you to host all your photographs, videos and graphics for free and then share them with customers and colleagues by way of email or social networking sites like MySpace, Twitter and Facebook. A Photobucket account will provide safe storage for thousands of images and videos and allows you to use them in various…

In recent posts I have covered the changes to the Google search algorithm (Panda and Penguin) and in post 40, why you should not rely only Google for your traffic.  However, you can not ignore Google as they still account for around 80% of the search engine market.  So the question is, what is the…

I wanted to close the year with a very quick post to thank all of you who have visited the Digital Ark blog in 2011.  I hope you have found the information useful and it has helped you with your own web site projects. I have enjoyed writing the articles and creating the beginners guide…

This may appear to be a very strange statement so please allow me to explain my thinking. I have seen some of my clients who when they contact me are really eager to get a web site live.  I work with them quickly to develop a draft and make initial changes, then it can take…

Have you ever stopped to ask the question “what am I / my business trying to achieve from our web site?”. Don’t be surprised if you can’t answer this question straight away! In the late 90’s, through the 00’s and even today, many businesses and organisations were told they needed a web site but never…

In this age of austerity cuts many small and medium business owners are looking to save money.  This means every cost line must come under scrutiny to see if it provide value for money and if it can be done cheaper. One of these cost items will be the expenses that relate to the web…

In my last blog post (4. Do you own your domain name?) I talked about the risks of not having your domain name registered in your name.  This post is a logical extension. The title probably should more accurately be “do you own the source and output files that create and form your web site”?…