POPI and your website You will probably be familiar with the popups that have been appearing on websites over the past two or more years asking you to click OK to accept cookies. These were introduced in response to Europe’s GDPR, and now we need to do the same....
POPI compliance essentials for small and micro enterprises in SA Big changes are on the cards for South African businesses with the enforcement of the Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act. POPI (or POPIA) is South Africa’s equivalent of the European Union’s...
Well-known local hosting company Afrihost recently suffered a wave of hacking attacks that affected 83 domains hosted on their servers. Most, if not all, the hacked sites were built with WordPress. This highlights the fact that while WordPress is a hugely popular and...
Want to create a website on a domain name that uses your most sought-after keyword? Then be prepared to pay a pretty penny, especially if you’re aiming for a .com address. Just how much? Well, if you wanted to buy VacationRentals.com when it was on sale a few...
Electrify your text with value propositions Take a quick look at your home page text. Does it use the words “we” or “our” more than once? Does it talk all about your company and what you do? Does it say how you pride yourself in your excellent...
Getting hacked can happen to the best of us. I should know about that – because last year one of my own websites was badly hacked. As so often happens with these things, one doesn’t realise one has been compromised until days, or in my case weeks, go by. Then...
