A few months ago, Google officially announced that it would consider Secure Socket Layers – more commonly known as SSL connections – as a search signal. Such a move fit perfectly with the search engine’s known appreciation for user experience. Long used by banks and online retailers, SSL connections are fast and encrypt any transfers […]
Internet Explorer (IE) used to be the de facto browser for all PC users. Then other browsers like Firefox and eventually Chrome came into the market and that all started to change. IE was the biggest nightmare for a web design and development company like us. Until a few years ago, that is. Many developers […]
On occasion I get asked by a client if they should purchase multiple domain names. Some believe that by having multiple domain names for their one website it will help more people find their website since it is accessible in different ways and could improve their Search Engine Optimization. Unfortunately this is not the case […]
A while back Google made a call for “HTTPS everywhere”. They want the web to be a much more secure place. Anything you use on Google.com is done of HTTPS, meaning the page you are accessing is secure. Before this announcement, HTTPS (or having an SSL certificate) was used just on e-commerce sites or other […]
Your website’s CMS should not be difficult to use and you surely should not have to know a lick of HTML in order to do it. It’s our job to make managing your website as easy as every day tasks like writing an email or Word document.
The browser wars are a big deal for us web designers and developers. They determine what we can and can’t do with the websites we create. It is an accepted fact that Internet Explorer has stunted the speed at which we can push the limits of what is possible on the web. There are still […]
A lot of the online interaction is moving to mobile devices like your phone. With this big mobile push recently, some of our clients are asking us about creating a mobile version of their website. So, do you need a mobile version for your site? As with most things the answer is, “it depends.” The […]
We offer web hosting services here at AshWebStudio and along with that comes email hosting. This allows our clients to have account@yourdomain.com which looks much more professional than pinkballerina47@hotmail.com. Many people don’t realize there are two ways to access your email – and I don’t mean Outlook and Webmail. What is POP access? Accessing your […]
Backing up data is very important. Especially when you have tons of files created for paying clients. I recently had a hard drive crash and if it wasn’t for the multiple backup methods I use, we could have been in serious trouble. First, we use something called ForeverSave to ensure that we are always saving […]