About 3 months ago we made the switch to WHMCS as our billing system. It is heralded as one of the best billing systems for web professionals, with a particular emphasis on web hosting. As a company that’s main form of business is designing and developing websites, but does some hosting, we wondered if this [...]
Continue Reading...In my last post, I talked about choosing the right hosting, I also briefly mentioned about a little scheme we are offering right now – free charity hosting. I would like to spend some time today explaining why I think this is a good idea, not just for the charities, but how it benefits us [...]
Continue Reading...You might not know this, but there are plenty of things to consider when hosting your website. I suspect that most people consider price as the primary factor, and although it is certainly a consideration, here are some important factors to bare in mind: Location If you are a UK based company as we [...]
Continue Reading...It seems that with inflation growing and allegedly set to rise dramatically over the next financial year along with VAT at an all time high, many companies are increasing their rates in an effort to make ends meet. Our overheads including costs for phone, hosting and internet services have gone up considerably over the last [...]
Continue Reading...We were recently interview by Advanced Photoshop Magazine for an article about creative self promotion. The article talks about various creative ways of promoting your work including our chilli sauce which we sent out to many people including the editors at Imagine Publishing. There is a nice big photo of our sauce in the article [...]
Continue Reading...Every web designer that I know (and I know quite a few) is frequently asked “how much does a website cost?”. The question is a complicated one since it depends on many factors. I like the analogous question “how much does a car cost?”. The answer depends on whether the vehicle you want is a [...]
Continue Reading...This year Voodoochilli turns ten years old which is a long time for such a new industry. Ten years ago I vividly remember working on a September morning on a personal project. I stopped putting together the table infested HTML document with Adobe GoLive to run and see what the commotion was next door. My [...]
Continue Reading...Wow. We have literally been rushed off our feet the last month or so. At one point, we even had a sign on our website telling visitors that we were no longer taking on work! Drastic action indeed. Luckily though we have have made some major progress with our existing workload as well as taking [...]
Continue Reading...Last Thursday was a very stressful day for many web designers in the UK, and we were no exception. In fact, I would argue that we had a worst time than most. Bluesquare, based in Maidenhead, is one of the UK’s largest datacenters. For those that don’t know a datacenter is a large complex of [...]
Continue Reading...Here at Voodoochilli we build websites. Telling people not have a website built is akin to ordering a taxi only to be told by the driver that the exercise may well do you some good. However, the truth remains that often we are put in the position of telling our potential clients that a website [...]
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