South Design
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A creative web design and marketing company
Joined July 2009
The Hidden Truth About WordPress vs Shopify Success: It's All About Maintenance In the world of e-commerce, platform choice can make or break your online business. While many entrepreneurs focus on initial setup costs or feature comparisons, there's a more crucial factor that
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Dear Dropbox: I Take It All Back (Mostly) Back in 2019, I reluctantly parted ways with Dropbox after they made a frustrating and seemingly unnecessary change to how Symlinks worked. For years, Dropbox had been a simple, effective, and reliable tool—one that ran quietly in the
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A well-maintained WordPress site will outperform a well-maintained Shopify site. However, a poorly maintained WordPress site will fall far behind even a poorly maintained Shopify one. So, the real question isn't, "Which platform should we build our e-commerce site on?" but
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Plixi is a scam The 'Instagram Growth Software' company Plixi is nothing more than a scam. But don't just take it from me, consider their Trustpilot rating (claimed to be 4.9 out of 5 on the website, but is actually only 1.7 : https://t.co/HE6dq8wcek) with 87% of reviews giving
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Why I ditched DropBox (Originally posted Oct 2019) It's been a faithful friend. The small blue box icon, busily whirring away in the background. Keeping all my important files safe. And although I rarely had use to call on the backup features, I was glad those few times it
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Tim Cook’s Transatlantic Tax So it's arrived (almost). The new Apple iPhone 8, and it’s accompanied by a Superhero friend called ‘X’. Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure the new technologies are huge leaps into the unknown, but I can’t help feeling somewhat underwhelmed. That's hard
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MediRegs includes MHRA Licensed Wholesale numbers in search results Wikipedia describes ‘Software as a Service’ “SaaS” a software licensing and delivery model in which software is licensed on a subscription basis and is centrally hosted. SaaS applications have many advantages
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MediRegs and the MHRA – How SaaS reacts to changes. For the last few years we’ve been moving our business away from the traditional ‘one time sell’ model, over to developing Software as a Service (SaaS) applications. SaaS offers many advantages – and not just for the developer
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Just what is the point of the Yellow Pages? I’m not trying to be flippant, I genuinely want to find out if it’s still of any use to anyone… Ever? This morning I found it there, lying rather clumsily on the doormat. Wrapped in a distressed layer of protective clingfilm and
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“Ding dong the Desktop’s dead…” OK, so it’s perhaps an overly dramatic headline… But if not dead, then it’s certainly on it’s last legs, having already been given the Last Rites and signed the organ donor card… Well, At least as far as advertisers are concerned anyway! I’ve
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7 Easy Ways To Achieve A 7% Response Rate Back the good old days of CMYK and Heidelberg Speedmasters, when “DM” meant ‘Direct Mail’, rather than ‘Digital Marketing’’, and “DTP” wasn’t sneeringly referred to as the “Dead Tree Press”, Creative Directors and lowly Account Managers
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Do cheap data-rates harm the mobile web community? It seems a pretty straightforward equation doesn’t it. If you want to encourage people to use the web on their mobile phones, then reduce the cost of data streaming, and more people will use it… Well no, it’s not quite that
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A day in the life of an iPhone advert I’m not too ashamed (yet) to admit that I’ve always had a bit of a penchant for Apple goodies. My first mac was a Classic II circa ’86, and it’s fair to say I’ve always been a fan of the way the Mac operates (particularly since OS X). So
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"Please release me, let me go…" ISPs are everywhere. You can’t move online for the likes of eNom, Go Daddy etc. All vying to be the one who gets to liberate a small sum from your wallet for the privilege of registering a domain name for you. So, with such competition, you’d
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The Putler did it! Oh PayPal, what am I to do with you? I love you, I hate you. You give me all the eCommerce facilities a person could ever need, then you hide them away behind your wicked and cruel interface. I’m taunted daily by your glacial login speeds just to get
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PayPal Micropayments – and when to use them Thanks to PayPal Adaptive Payments suite of APIs you can choose how you want to be paid online. But the real question is, how should that payment be processed? PayPal launched a new service a couple of years ago called PayPal
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