HWB | HWBD - Part 2

07 Nov 2018

New website for Bracken Group

Bracken Group’s new website takes advantage of all the new features in the new Bootstrap4 WordPress theme by HWB Design. A stylish portfolio site showing off some impressive property developments – but also engaging visitors in land opportunities. This site also features a filterable showcase of upcoming, current and past projects. the backend was customised to allow […]

18 Aug 2018

Firefly Solar Lanterns

ECO-Friendly Solar Charging Lanterns or as they say in Spain : Linternas de carga solar ecológicas. A simple ‘one-page’ website was all that was needed to promote this charming range of products to the Spanish market. The page was then set up in English for those of us also keen to get hold of these […]

14 Aug 2018

New Book : New Look

Andrew Towning’s new book ‘Tide Runner‘ is out and the author’s website promoting the previous editions was in a need of an accessibility and maintenance uplift. A previous site run by MUSE (Adobe’s web design tool) was being used, but edits and updates were proving problematical. See : https://andrewtowning.co.uk/ WordPress offered the perfect building and (low) maintenance […]

18 Jul 2018

New Wings for Dorset Business Angels

Dorset Business Angels, who invest in start-up and early stage high-growth businesses, needed a contemporary, stylish and smart website review. The site is also easy to maintain and takes advantage of all the new features in the new Bootstrap4 WordPress theme by HWB Design. see: https://dorsetbusinessangels.co.uk/ […]

26 Mar 2018

WordPress & Plugin Updating – Revisited

Before the 2000’s, websites were a “set-it-and-forget-it” proposition. Built using HTML and CSS, they had content added and then they were broadcast it to the world. Websites were much simpler. They were used as online brochures – a replacement for the print. Once launched – it would sit there and be visible. Most website owners […]

19 Mar 2018

Go HTTPS! – but is that all?

Since Google has announced that going HTTPS will give you a minor ranking boost. Lots of sites have bought into SSL-certificates to switch their old HTTP site to the more secure HTTPS. But after enabling SSL on your webserver – the site may still may contain internal page links, images and scripts which will still remain pointing to the old HTTP […]

07 Mar 2018

Email Obfuscate

Sadly there are a number of “spambots” which roam the web “harvesting” email addresses to send spam to. Often you have no choice but to include a mailto link with an email address in a web page. Fortunately most of these spambots do not seem to have complete HTML parsers, and most do not execute […]

29 Dec 2017

WordPress & Plugin Updates – Why?

Thinking of a New Year’s Resolution? – As with your car or your phone, regular servicing and maintenance keeps your WordPress website running smoothly so that improvements can be identified in a timely manner. WordPress is part of an open source community – which means that there are hundreds of developers worldwide constantly improving the software […]

28 Dec 2017

New Style for Lifestyle Concept

The Lifestyle Concept needed a contemporary, stylish and smart website uplift from the previous ecommerce site run my ‘Mystile’. The site is also easy to maintain and takes advantage of all the new features in the new Bootstrap4 WordPress theme by HWB Design. see: thelifestyleconcept.co.uk […]

18 Dec 2017

IFTTT

Simply put ‘if this, then that ‘ – Amongst other things this little piece of ingenuity helps me manage content going out from the website to various social media sites. This post will be automatically uploaded to facebook and twitter with links back to the website. And of course when we have a clear night I […]