Insights

Designing for everyone: the critical importance of accessible web design
It is widely accepted that websites are as important as an organisation’s bricks-and-mortar premises, if not more so. However, not everyone can access and use websites with the same ease.

Upgrading PHP: the benefits for WordPress stability and security
This is a technical one, so we'll try to keep it digestible... From time to time, we have to alert our clients to the need to upgrade the version of PHP used by their website. As this is a recurring necessity, to keep your website operational, we wanted to explain it...

Email security: new requirements from Google and Yahoo
From 1 February 2024, new authentication requirements started to roll out for email marketing platforms. These new requirements only affect bulk mail senders - organisations who send more than 5000 emails in a single day to addresses hosted by Google or Yahoo - but...

Website healthchecks: 10 reasons why your site needs one
Throughout the year, we recommend a variety of website audits to ensure your website is compliant and gives your users the best experience possible. What better way to start the year than a website healthcheck? Or, more specifically, an on-page technical audit. To...

Sustainable web design
One source of carbon emissions that is often overlooked is the internet and the systems around it. Despite the limited attention it gets, the size of the problem is significant.

Square Eye & Cornerstone Barristers win Outstanding Website at the WebAwards 2023
The Square Eye and Cornerstone Barristers teams are delighted to be awarded Outstanding Website at the 2023 WebAwards (Legal category) for their work on the Cornerstone website. The site is the result of a six-month project in 2022 which saw a redesign and rebuild of...

Avoid costly fines: a guide to image licensing and ownership documentation
Ensure every image on your website is properly licensed, to avoid the risk of hefty fines from stock image libraries and their lawyers.

Sunsetting Universal Analytics
You may be aware that something is going on with Google Analytics. You may have been alerted to this by the banner messages running along the top of your account screen for the past year, or maybe, it was the obnoxious countdown clock that now greets you when you log...

A guide to Google Business Profile
Google My Business (GMB) sounds like a request or a command rather than the name of a product. As such, it seems to have eluded many an organisation as to what it is about and how it relates to the suite of Google products. In even more unsettling news, it isn’t...

Restricting access by IP address
Restricting access by IP address is a service we offer as part of our suite of security services. Clients on our Standard support package and above are entitled to this as part of their retainer services, but any of our clients can request the increased security...