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What is Viewability? A “viewable impression” is a term used to describe ads that have had the opportunity to be viewed by the digital user. A “non-viewable” impression on the other hand is an impression that a digital user would have potentially seen if site design, layout, or scroll depth had been different. For example, […]

Security can often be a scary word when tossed around online. All sorts of associations come to mind when you think of cyber security nowadays; breaches, hacking and exploitation to name a few. For the most part though, a reasonable degree of security for your website is not too difficult to achieve and is something […]

We are proud to support a number of clients from the charity sector at Coast Digital (and we often hold our own fundraising events and coffee mornings, it’s ok to eat mounds of cake when it’s for charity, right?), so we like to keep abreast of developments in digital, that are relevant to charities and […]

I took a break from my desk and spent yesterday morning networking at the Business East event. Held at the Weston Homes Stadium in Colchester, it’s a popular business to business show attracting 700 visitors. Aside from the networking opportunity, I was interested to hear Mandie Holgate’s seminar, ‘I Hate Phoning People.’ (Just as a […]

Over a year ago, Matt Mullenweg (co-founder of the WordPress project) told the community of WordPress developers to ‘learn JavaScript deeply’. Since then, a new feature project was created with the aim of improving the way people create content on WordPress. For many years, TinyMCE (Tiny Moxiecode Content Editor) has been the face of content […]

Nearly three years ago the social media giant Facebook sealed the deal on a $2 billion buyout of the virtual reality company Oculus. Many people are still unsure why exactly they’d want to buy into such an industry. Although this sort of thing happens a lot within Silicon Valley and the tech industry in general. […]

So we’ve managed to survive another eventful Christmas. Where the cats managed to kidnap the three bird roast whilst it was defrosting on the kitchen top, leaving us with microwavable southern fried chicken for our main – and our Christmas tree failed to fit into the same box it arrived in, so it is now […]

I don’t remember exactly when I first started developing websites, although it was over ten years ago and I was still in school; just to give a rough indication of my age now! When I started, I didn’t know anything about the industry and what it was really like to code as a career. My […]

Last month, WordPress 4.9 was released to the public after roughly three to four months of constant hard work in making sure that all of the planned features and outstanding bug reports were closed and ready to be shipped, in a stable product for the world to use. It was made possible by the four […]

In today’s digital age, it’s nearly impossible to not hear about the constant attacks that computer systems face each and every day. Only last May did we see news about several businesses which include the NHS being hit by cyber attacks on a huge scale. So it’s no wonder that in this day and age, […]