Posts by Andrea @ Coppertops

We have posted before about the importance of ensuring that your website is responsive and viewable on mobile devices. It is vital for search results, for user experience and most importantly to boost your website sales. We talked about the what, how and why of responsive websites, we went into more detail on how to make…

Summer is drawing to a close and everyone starts thinking about taking up night classes to perfect that golf swing or finally learn how to make Indian food. To that end we have completed our redesign of the Coppertops website. While we don’t believe in redesign for redesign sake, we felt we wanted to modern…

We are delighted to welcome Dave Kavanagh Financial Companion who has agreed to be the first of our guest bloggers.  We hope to run a series of guest blogs from people we have worked with that we feel can contribute to all the small business and self employed out there. So the first guest blog…

Delighted to announce that our recent client Dave Kavanagh Financial Companion has been chosen as the StarBiz on tonight’s Twitter chat. Check out all the action on Twitter tonight between 8 and 9pm and follow #Louthchat to find out more.

We know how it is. You’ve paid for your shiny new website, your developer has handed you the keys (well, the login details) and you want to share it with the world and enjoy this pretty new worldwide window on your business. Then your developer mentions to you that it is important to make sure you apply security updates and maintain your website. Talk about a spoilsport! You don’t want to think about all that stuff, you want to get blogging and sharing, perhaps even taking orders through your new website.

WordPress have today released update 4.2.2, a critical security release for your WordPress site, so you need to make sure to update as soon as possible. This is a fix for a number of security issues which have been discovered in version 4.2, so even if your site has been updated recently it is important that you apply this update also.

At Coppertops we see a lot of websites that have been created “as a favour“. Usually by clients who then need the website redesigned correctly because it just hasn’t worked out. I know what you’re thinking….you would say that.  And I know where you’re coming from. You as a business owner, are not sure how…

There has recently been a security advisor warning about many of the plugins used on WordPress sites.  A security issue has been identified and developers have been working to resolve the issue.  A “fix” has been issued in the form of updates for those plugins. We would like to assure our customers, that where Coppertops are…

A term that is mentioned very often in relation to digital marketing and search engine optimisation (SEO) is Pay Per Click (PPC). But what does PPC actually mean? Well, PPC is a method where an ad is displayed on a website and the advertiser pays the website owner an agreed fee when a visitor clicks…

More than ever before, in 2014 SEO became a term that almost everybody became familiar with. At least in the sense of hearing it, for many it remains a mysterious term that is not fully understood. What is SEO? SEO is an acronym, the full term is Search Engine Optimisation. For many who have heard…

Coppertops are delighted to be taking part in the Expo on 14th April 2015. Having attended last year and found it to be a well organised day with great businesses and fantastic speakers we jumped at the chance to get involved. This year we will have our very own stand, where we will be available all…