The Hug

Cutting Back on the Cookies?

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 11:03:15 +0100

Well the day has come and gone and the ICO seems to have blinked and effectively delayed by a year the date at which the changes to the new EU Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations become mandatory on web site owners. I can't say I'm surprised.

On SEO (and SEO Spam)

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:00:01 +0100

"Search Engine Optimisation" or SEO for short is a regular topic raised when we talk to people about web sites. SEO is the art of getting your web site high in the rankings of the major search engines like Bing, Yahoo! and, especially, Google so that when potential visitors make searches appropriate to your site your site appears on the first page, ideally as the first hit.

Mapping on the Web

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:00:01 +0100

Here at The Hug we're great enthusiasts for maps as we like to walk and to sail. Ordnance Survey maps hold a particular fascination for us (and we're not alone there's even a recent book about it, Mike Parker's Map Addict: A Tale of Obsession, Fudge & the Ordnance Survey).

Sometimes You Have to be Quick

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000

We've had an exciting week here at The Hug. You may have been following the controversy about the Government's "sacking" of Professor David Nutt, chair of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. They did this as a result of a lecture Professor Nutt had given at King's College London last July at the invitation of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies (CCJS), who are one of our clients.

Some Thoughts on Hosting Video

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:01 +0100

We're getting a lot of enquiries now from customers who want to put video on their sites. Unsurprising really as we are finally getting to the point where video over the Net is starting to live up to the promises we were hearing in the early days of broadband.