Blog

Between projects, we write about the things we've been working on, developer tutorials, and occasional opinion posts. This blog isn't updated particularly often - we're developers, not bloggers - but you might find our posts to be useful or interesting if you're a developer, or if you like to follow what we're up to.

You should also join us on social media where Kate posts our micro-updates a tad more often.

Opinions

Firefox 128 and the Privacy Preserving Attribution API

On July 9th 2024, Mozilla released Firefox version 128 and, amongst various new features and changes, this release enables a new controversial setting...

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Tutorials

Installing Rackspace DriveClient and monitoring agent on Rocky 9 or Alma 9

With CentOS 7.9 hitting end of life this month, we've been setting up new servers recently and decommissioning some of the older servers that we look...

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Announcements

QWeb Ltd relaunches Youtube channel

We've been in business since 2013 and opened our Youtube channel in 2017, but we've only ever really used it as a storage dump for small videos. Somew...

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Announcements

CentOS 7 End of Life

Everybody running CentOS 7 servers should already know by now, but just in case you missed it, CentOS 7.9, which was released on 7th July 2014, will r...

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Tutorials

Update to Opayo URLs

In case you missed it, Elavon began merging Opayo, formerly Sagepay, into their brand earlier in 2023, and in November Elavon announced that the next...

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Tutorials

Submitting WordPress plugins and plugin updates

Having recently launched our first WordPress plugin, the Admin Country Allowlist, I thought it would be useful to collate my notes into a tutorial exp...

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Announcements

Price changes for Google reCAPTCHA product tiers

I received a billing notice email from Google yesterday, titled "[Billing Notice] Price changes for Google reCAPTCHA product tiers". We use various Go...

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Opinions

Firefox blocking Google Analytics

In June 2019, Mozilla released an update to their Firefox browser which enabled Enhanced Tracking Protection by default. In a nutshell, this feature a...

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Tutorials

Sourcing images for your website

Long pages of text don't make for good websites. If a visitor lands on a page and sees a huge amount of text to read, they can feel overwhelmed and le...

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Opinions

The importance of brand alignment

When a start-up business comes to us for a website design, one of my first questions is whether they have an existing logo and brand guidelines yet, a...

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Tutorials

Choosing POP3 or IMAP for your mail

As well as websites, we also host email accounts for many of our clients. Our servers support both IMAP and POP3 connections and we let individuals de...

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Announcements

QWeb Ltd launches WordPress Admin Country Allowlist plugin

We host a number of WordPress websites, and we manage servers for other agencies hosting WordPress websites too. Out of the box, WordPress isn't exact...

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