Technology, church music, bicycles, and life in Ireland
I got a notification today that SiteGround, the web hosting company that I use to host all my sites, are having a Black Friday sale with discounts of up to 75% off their hosting plans. The discounts apply to their shared hosting plans, and are available from Friday 23rd to Monday 26th November 2018 inclusive, […]
When designing a blog it’s easy to think only about how the site looks on the big monitor attached to your desktop computer. After all that’s the tool we use to maintain our blogs. But if ever you needed evidence that you need to prioritise mobile devices, take a look at these statistics from another […]
How fast does your WordPress blog load? Have you tested performance on mobile as well as desktop? Did you know that performance is one of metrics that Google uses to rank sites? When talking about performance its important to remember that around half of all traffic these days comes from mobile devices, and these devices […]
While many online portals are embracing two-factor authentication and other security best practice, our telecoms utility eir seems determined to stop us using good quality passwords. As you can see from the screenshot below, the self-service portal my.eir.ie doesn’t allow users to set passwords longer than 10 characters. The error message on screen also notifies […]
I've been going along to some of the Dublin WordPress meetups in the last couple of months, and one of the things they suggested is for people to attend the WordCamp conference in Belfast. It takes place over the UK bank holiday weekend of 25th-27th May 2018, in the Queen's University, and is for anyone […]
I was looking around for a different web hosting company, and decided to give SiteGround a try, because they seem to have a good quality service at a reasonable price. I signed up for their GrowBig hosting plan that allows you to host multiple domains/sites on one account, and also fully supports the Let's Encrypt […]
