It's been a busy couple of weeks with work for clients but also taking some time out (and working the weekend) to learn how to run the business better. We're big fans of lifelong learning whether that is through reading, talking to our peers or getting along to...
As a small business owner a lot of my time is spent just "doing stuff". That includes sales, staffing, writing blogs, networking, general admin and being a technician - actually doing some of the geeky stuff. All of those things are necessary and, at least in the case...
We are a small business and have limited spare funds available to support local charities but feel it is important that we do. There are an ever increasing number of people, both locally and nationally, who rely on charity as the cost of living crisis deepens which...
Technology is neutral, how it is used, owned and managed determines whether it has a positive or a negative effect on society. I believe we need to have a very different view about technology and make changes as a society that greatly reduce the hours people work as...
Over the next couple of weeks we will be releasing a series of short BIOs to gain an insight into each member of our team. First up, we sat down with our Managing Director, Ian, and asked a few questions to get to know him a little bit better. About Name: Ian Elcoate...
Over the last couple of months, Tad Web Solutions have expanded, and we recruited our Marketing Manager, Jamie. This post is going to explain in short from his point of view of what it is like to work at Tad Web Solutions. There are a lot of positives working at Tad...
This will be a short post and we do welcome comments from other web-designers and developers with their thoughts. My starting point is: I don't think Gutenberg is completely release ready I'm not saying that it doesn't work, we are using it, but I believe there are...
There is a never-ending stream of news stories about security breaches and the reality is that if dedicated groups like Anonymous can hack (usually for good reason - personal opinion) major organisations and Governmental departments with a huge security budget, then...
Gutenberg is Here Thur Dec 6th 2018 is the official release date for this new and major update to the WordPress platform. The aim is to make the platform much more user-friendly for the non-technical website owner which is a good thing. Is there a downside?...
A large part of our work is creating bespoke solutions for our clients coded in php or C# that perform some specific task to meet our partners business needs. That isn't always the case. Often we will talk to a business who need on online solution and there will be an...
You can't avoid the news and heated in/out debates (or rants) on social media channels about no deal and holding a second referendum. So here's my two-penn'orth as a business owner. Should we have a second referendum? In principle I say no, however, we should have a...
Moving Day As from today, Tad Web Solutions has officially moved into a new building! You can now find us at Commerce House; Commerce House 1 Exchange Square Middlesbrough United Kingdom TS1 1DW Located just 5 minutes away from our old residence, Boho 5. ...