The Fife IT Support Blog

Those of you that know me will know that I HATE sales by scare stories. A lot of the questions I've been getting recently is in regards to GDPR - the General Data Protection Regulation which is coming into force on the 25th May 2018. My simple advice that I've been giving my business clients is to simply use some common sense, treat any data in your control with the same standards as you'd wish your data to be treated in the hands of another. As an example: It is not up to

First, lets start with what is a domain name? A domain name is the second part of an internet address - the part which identifies your company for example: @fifeitsupport.co.uk Using a branded domain name for email is more professional than a free e-mail service for example @hotmail.com and you can use your domain name for your website, holding page or to link to your Facebook business page. There a lot of different providers of free email addresses that you can choose fro

I set out this morning to create a Pro and Con list on Facebook business pages for a short blog post and I have failed. After a good few hours of researching, I have been drawn to the conclusion there are no cons. Well none that I think are relevant to us as users of a Facebook business page. So, I am going to go ahead and detail below my PRO list for Facebook business pages: Facebook is one of largest social media platforms with 'As of the first quarter of 2017, Facebook h

Interested in WEBSITES?! Great! Businesses want or need a website for different reasons! You might be looking to sell something, in which case your website would be an ‘ecommerce’ website. You might want to have it for sending customers to so that they can get more information on your product or service. No matter what you need a website for, there are 4 elements that stay the same, heres 1 of them: 1 - A domain name (www.yourbusiness.co.uk & info@yourbusiness.co.uk) What