Welcome to the Freetimers main Blog, which is focused on Website Design, Development and Programming and just about anything else of interest that relates to businesses and the Internet! Freetimers also has a separate SEO & Digital Marketing Blog, because it is such a huge subject in its own right, and there is a link to it at the top menu for your convenience. Both Blogs will be updated with new articles regularly, and we do hope you will find the content of interest, and more importantly, useful to you!
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Greg Poulson, Managing Director, Freetimers
29th Nov 2019
PHP have rolled out their latest offering PHP 7.4 this week inline with their original estimated release date of November 28, 2019. As well as offering outstanding performance enhancements over PHP 5.6, PHP 7+ brought with it exciting new features. Keeping in with this trend PHP 7.4 does not disappoint, offering syntactical additions, new features and bug fixes.
20th Aug 2019
Having recently watched a BBC Horizon program exploring Facebook, from the inside of the organisation, what I found particularly interesting was not their assessment of the challenges they face, but the BIG issues that were not touched on at all or very minimally, either by the program makers or Facebook itself.
AI Facebook16th Dec 2013
When a website is created, it should ideally be as easy-to-use as it possibly can be, because every business should have full control over their website content.
29th Nov 2013
Websites, for many businesses, are practically shop fronts and they’re open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. That’s why it’s important for businesses to have full control over their website, and a content management system (CMS) can allow them to do this.
5th Nov 2013
Many businesses know they require a website, perhaps they know that they need a design as well as web marketing, yet one thing which should always be acknowledged is the need for bespoke website programming.
7th Oct 2013
Behind every successful website, whether it’s a basic website or a complicated interactive website, high-quality web programming is fundamental.
27th Feb 2013
One of our Directors recently found this write up by the Information Technology Telecommunications and
Electronics Association on their website
26th Feb 2013
The following article was recently published in Business Matters online magazine.
5th Oct 2012
Hackers have targeted the online adventure game, World of Warcraft (WoW) this month. The hackers were able to create a character that could destroy all other characters- including those controlled by the game.
28th Jan 2012
Being able to compete on the Internet is tough and increasingly costly. In the history of the internet and ecommerce it used to be that having a reasonable price, a good looking site (not always the rule!), and being found on the search engines was enough to generate considerable success. Businesses who had deep pockets but were failing at search engine optimisation were able to get around the ‘getting found’ issue by using pay per click services like Google Adwords (at considerable extra cost I might add).