PCI DSS stands for the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. It is a set of standards and guidelines put together by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) in order to protect sensitive customer data.
It sets out practices for businesses that process or require payment card information (or other sensitive personal information) to follow.
Website maintenance is used to describe any actions that may be needed to keep a website running reliably and working correctly. To this end, periodically checking that your website is delivering the expected outputs at each stage of the user or customer journey is strongly recommended. For a simple website, this might just involve submitting contact forms to ensure those are all received, or dialling phone numbers to ensure those come through to the correct company or contact.
Low-carbon websites are websites that do not generate significant carbon dioxide emissions when they are viewed.
Why do websites generate carbon dioxide emissions? That is a longer story – basically, it is because of the energy that is used by the data centres that host a website, by the interconnected systems that make up the internet and that allow the data making up that website to be transmitted to the computer or other device on which you are viewing the site, and also by that computer or device in itself, which will likewise be using energy.
The first in our series of articles looking at Social Media of Today
The photo sharing app Instagram was first launched for Apple's iOS in October 2010 by computer programmer Kevin Systrom and software engineer Mike Krieger. The name Instagram comes from merging ‘instant camera’ and ‘telegram’, and as a brand that is now well-known globally.
WooCommerce is a popular extension to the most common website content management system in the world, WordPress. It transforms your WordPress site into a capable ecommerce system. Developed and launched in 2011, this easy-to-install plug-in is free if you don't need the extra features provided by paid add-ons. It is used by businesses and not-for-profits to manage online shops of widely-differing sizes, giving them the ability to sell products online.
In this overview, we will discuss some basic SEO methods and best practices for updating content on your website in 2025. If you have a requirement for additional support, please get in touch.
After the initial introduction of AI large-language models in 2022, ChatGPT was launched by OpenAI in November of the same year, and other advanced AI chat bots have since followed. Gemini, formerly known as Bard, was launched by Google in March 2023; Claude from Anthropic also appeared that month; and Ernie from Baidu was unveiled in August 2023. Take-up was rapid, with huge growth in user numbers over 2023.
Like many festivals and holidays throughout the calendar, the run-up to Christmas is a time when consumer-oriented retail and service businesses tend to ramp up their marketing efforts in order to capture seasonal spending and present purchases. How this is best achieved will depend on the type of business; many use their websites to spread some festive cheer and tempt in customers with Christmas on their mind.
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The team at GWS Media has over two decades of experience in all areas of online marketing work, from logo design and website design and development through to copywriting, content marketing, SEO and App development. Creating successful online platforms that work for your business is our core activity, so why not contact us today for a chat about your project.