I used to work for a BIG company that had far too many meetings. So, to pass the time, we used to play a game called buzzword bingo. While writing my post on the death of the meta tag, I was struck by just how many buzzwords there are in SEO (search engine optimization). I [...]
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It’s an exciting time here at Midphase. First, we rolled out our new vastly improved website design, then we launched a massive 50% off server promotion. Now, we are very proud to announce that we have launched our new Hosted Exchange email hosting product! Midphase Hosted Exchange is quite an exciting concept. Businesses large and [...]
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I spotted on twitter last night an official announcement from Google that people in the SEO community had long suspected: Google no longer use the meta keywords tag in web search. Sounds fun, but what are meta tags? A meta tag is a line of HTML code that sits in the <header> section of your [...]
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I got linked to an interesting article on Typophile.com today and thought it’d be good to share In the article Miha shows off his use of ninja skills and false color to improve the readability of favicons, if you’re into design or typography you can check out the full article at: http://typophile.com/node/60577 What is a [...]
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The nerds have been busy at Midphase towers. Not only have we updated our range of server hosting and server management upgrades, but we’re also running a massive 50% off promotion to celebrate. The 50% off offer is really simple and there are no hidden costs, minimum contracts, or strings attached. Simply put we’re offering [...]
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Malware sounds a bit like an illness. It’s associated with hackers and general Internet bad guys and seems undecipherable to all but the geekiest of computer nerds. In this guest blog post, Midphase customer and Malware expert Bev Robb explains the basics of Malware and gives 9 simple steps that can help protect you from [...]
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Creating an effective promotion is one of the most difficult things to master in the world of online marketing. Now, I’m not talking about the actual creation of the graphics that will be used – on a purely technical level, it’s not too difficult. What I’m talking about is the actual thought process that goes [...]
Filed under: Promotions, Tips and Tutorials, Web Design by Noah
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Over 3000 Midphase customers responded to our web hosting survey, the results are in and I?m pleased to announce the winner of our prize-draw is www.downtownmontessori.com I caught up with Virginia Flynn, Head of School at Downtown Montessori to find out a little more about the Academy and their website. Congratulations on winning the Dell [...]
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On the back of recent news that Google Chrome is the now default browser on Sony vaio laptops, I felt inspired to check our analytics data and see what the take up is amongst Midphase customers. As anyone who’s been making websites for 5 years or more will testify (remember Netscape & MacOS IE?), creating [...]
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You might have noticed that we’ve recently updated the midphase.com website, and as part of this we also added a new site map. Lots of sites have site maps, so this in itself is nothing special. But ours is powered by SlickMap CSS? – a really sweet graphical site map that? quickly illustrates the hierarchical [...]
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