Facebook allows businesses to create a presence on their site, this can be used to share information about the company, its products and services. It enables the company to interact with customers and other users. Facebook company pages can be customized with features such as photos, videos, and a company description. Users can follow or like a company page to receive updates from that page in their news feed, and companies can also use paid advertising to promote their page and reach a wider audience.

Sounds ideal?

It is possible to use a Facebook company page in place of a website, but it is not recommended for several reasons.

First, a website typically provides a more comprehensive and centralized source of information about a business or organization, whereas a Facebook company page is just one aspect of a business’s online presence. Websites can also provide more flexibility in terms of design and functionality.

Second, a website gives you control over the look, feel and functionality of your business’s online presence, while a Facebook company page is limited to the features offered by Facebook.

Third, a website can be indexed by search engines, which allows people to find your website when they perform a search for relevant keywords. A Facebook company page is not indexed by search engines, which means that it may not appear in search results for your business or organization.

Fourth, a website can be accessed by anyone with an internet connection, while a Facebook company page can only be accessed by users who have a Facebook account and are logged in.

And finally, limiting your prescence to Facebook makes a company completely dependent on Facebook. Any change in the Facebook algorithm could impact your online presence and Facebook has been built to make Facebook money, not your company!

Overall, while a Facebook company page can be a useful tool for businesses, it is not a substitute for a website, and having a website is still important for a business to establish its online presence.

As a small software development company, Covid-19 doesn’t have a great impact on us. Computer programmers have naturally been practising social distancing for years! It’s an occupation that requires intense concentration with hours spent staring at obscure looking computer code. A lot of the kinds of technology that people may be using for the first time to allow them to work remotely, programmers have been using for a long time. So if you need any advice on the technology side of things do get in touch.

We have had to temporarily put up shutters on some of our clients’ websites and we can only earnestly hope that they can make it through this crisis. These are strange times.

With a potential drop off in new work, it would be a good idea to look at some of the in house software projects that we have had sitting on the backburner and to take the opportunity to skill up our team.

Stay safe and remember to keep washing those hands!

Here is a snapshot showing a small fraction of the spam that has been coming through on a daily basis:

It was a simple process to plug Google’s reCaptcha into the website and already it has had a transformative effect.

The office will be closed between Christmas and New Year. There will be someone monitoring email in case anything requires immediate attention.

This has been the company logo for the last 8 years. The new WordPress themes require a squared logo and our current logo doesn’t really work very well when squared.

These initial attempts involved adapting the current logo, the idea being that we would keep the current logo, but also have a complementary icon. I wasn’t best pleased with any of them.

So here’s the new logo. I can’t make up my mind which version I prefer though. The mountains reflect our location in Cumbria, only a few miles away from one of the most spectacular views in the whole country: