Affordable web design since 2004
Affordable web design since 2004
Total Web Development and Mays Web Design are always keen to work with other professionals in the web design sector, which is why we are currently working in partnership to deliver a major project to a large client in the construction industry. Pulling our resources together has meant that we are both working smarter and [...]
Today see’s the launch of our new initiative to help local businesses, we feel that now more than ever local businesses should be helping each other out. From small / start-up businesses to larger, well established companies – we are offering our services at up to 20% off. We are based in Rochdale which means [...]
You might think that the title of this post is a little dramatic, but in terms of what black hat SEO’s are now capable of after the recent Google Penguin update it’s not… We are about to see a war that will see a lot of innocent websites caught in the crossfire. I first stumbled [...]
The usage of web proxies isn’t something new, they have been around for years as a way for web surfers to get around firewall rules in places such as schools and workplaces. The way a web proxy works is quite simple – if you wanted to visit Facebook at work but found that it was [...]
The popular blogging platform WordPress has been fairly secure for quite some time now, but a very serious vulnerability has been found that allows a hacker to gain root access to your hosting account and alter any file at will. The affected file is called timthumb.php and is in itself a fairly harmless file – [...]
Buying Facebook fans and twitter followers is a very touchy subject, some people say that paying for fans and followers is a waste of time as these new profiles who follow you are not “targeted” – in other words they have not decided to follow you because they are interested in your products and services, [...]
Our next bunch of social networking icons are for the “new kid” on the block… Google+ At the time of writing Google+ is in “beta” which means that you need an invite to join – seeing as most people searching for these icons will already have a Google+ account this won’t be a problem (although [...]
Following on from our previous free twitter icons post we have published some free facebook icons for you to use totally free! The icons are in .png format and can easily be resized and edited using Adobe photoshop or similar. We will be adding some more cool facebook icons soon so keep checking back! [...]
Since we have redesigned our website we have lost some of our older blog posts, one of the most popular of which was our free twitter icons post which received a lot of traffic and downloads. So…. We’ve redone the blog post with some new Twitter icons for you to use on your website, most [...]
Firstly – what is SSL? SSL stands for Secure Socket Layer and is a way of encrypting information between a website and the user. You know you are visiting a SSL encrypted page because you see the “padlock” symbol in your browser. How it works. When a web browser attempts to connect to a server [...]
This little tutorial covers how to prevent people from using simple techniques to steal your website text and images – please note that this is by no way a bulletproof way of protecting your website content, there are ways around this system but it will stop the casual copy ‘n paste visitor… You will need [...]
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