Posts by Andrea @ Coppertops

Most businesses get free webmail with domain/hosting accounts, a ready made solution. Here are some of the other options, with pros & cons and our advice.

In our recent post about choosing a web host I outlined the factors to consider when choosing where to build your website. In a way this is a follow on post, where I am going to give you some tips on how to make sure that your website is designed and built by the right person for you. While that post detailed the desired specs for a hosting service, this one will focus on making sure you find a web designer who you can work with easily and who will give you the results you want/need!

WordPress versus a website developed in hard code There is A LOT of debate about whether WordPress (or similar tools like Joomla, Drupal, Dragonfly) is a good way to set up your website. It is still seen as one of the best blogging platforms, but once you go beyond blogging to creating a full blown business…

To put it simply, readibility is the ease of reading a piece of text. There are a number of factors at play, but the combined effect determines how difficult a reader finds to read a piece of text.

Have you heard talk about Twitter Cards? Do you know what they are?

We’ve recently seen some significant improvements in our hosting services and as a result will be increasing our prices slightly. For existing customers, please rest assured that your annual hosting bill will remain unchanged. I want to start with a little bit of background. Coppertops came into existence because Regina and myself feel that we can provide…

Let me start by telling you a story. I’ve recently moved house, so have had to find new EVERYTHING – doctor, dentist, childcare, you name it. So I knew I needed to make a dentist appointment and I was travelling on the train for the next 40 mins or so. What would you do, would you…

If you read about web design these days you are bound to come across this term. So we’d like to help clear up the important stuff on this new trend which really is an essential in any new website these days. I’m going to try to clear up any confusion about the idea! So.. what…

One of the latest trends for websites is the one page web design. Often, the fact that a website has just one page doesn’t occur to its visitors so much as an impression of minimalism, ease of use and often subconsciously an impression of scrolling instead of clicking.

We received an advisory alert on a security issue this morning and wanted to pass the update on to you. What has happened, who is at risk? Websites based on Content Management Systems (CMS) like Drupal, Joomal and WordPress have been the subject of a new spate of attacks recently. The attacks are most commonly…

Benefits and Costs As regular readers will know, I recently wrote about the benefits of using a password manager along with a description of how to set up and use the free password manager Keepass – click here to view that article While this free option works well, is reliable and most importantly secure (and…

There are an increasing number of tools on the internet which are specifically designed to integrate. These tools don’t have a function of their own, as such, rather they serve to connect other tools to increase the functionality of many apps available online. As there are a lot of options, there can be a lot…