It's been in the pipeline for a few months but we are excited to announce the roll out of the new Orbit interface. Over the next week or so we will be individually visiting every website in our user base to update the interface to Orbit 1.7 and link Google Analytics code for each site to the dashboard for real time reporting. The main changes, as mentioned last month, are: An Orbit CMS branded interface A clean and modern, more user...

We at Apex are huge proponents of responsive website design and never develop a website without making sure it is mobile friendly.We always considered the user in our design process and with the huge uptake in the use of mobile devices over the past couple of years we know we need to future proof our client’s sites and ensure that they are giving their site visitors the best possible experience regardless of the device they are viewing the website from.

When a visitor to your website completes your contact form, signs up to your newsletter or completes a sale through your online shop how do you thank them? Do you offer up a generic Thank You page that ‘ends the conversation’ with them or do you make them feel like you’re incredibly grateful that they’ve taken the time to visit your website and interact with you? If it’s the former then you are missing a huge opportunity for further engagement with...

Historically, HTTPS connections were associated with eCommerce websites, email platforms and websites that conducted sensitive transactions. In the last several years, however, the use of HTTPS has become prevalent across a wide variety of websites to protect page authenticity, secure accounts and keep user information private.

Are you missing out on receiving emails from particular senders? You may not have the sender added to your 'safe list'. Here, we discuss how you can add a sender to your 'safe list' so you never miss an email from them again.

Be sure to display an accurate privacy policy on your website so that visitors know exactly what to expect when it comes to the collection, storage and use of their personal information.

Apex Internet featured in the Christmas edition of the Taranaki LIVE Magazine. Here is the article which was published in the magazine.

What is Responsive Website Design? Responsive Website Design is the process of designing and building a website using techniques that allow the layout of the website to automatically adapt to fit the device it is being viewed on - be it on a desktop computer, a smartphone (such as an iPhone, Blackberry or any brand of phone using the Windows or Android operating system) or a tablet computer (such as iPad, Kindle Fire, Samsung Galaxy Tab or Google Nexus). Figure...

In our previous post SEO Considerations When Redesigning a Website we touched on how to mitigate the ill effects of changing your website domain or file names by using 301 Permanent Redirects. Here we will give you instruction on how to set up this redirect on both Apache and Microsoft IIS web servers. The “301 Permanent Redirect” is the most efficient and search engine friendly method for redirecting websites. Situations include: To redirect an old domain name to a new domain...

It's no secret that Search Engines like to return results to users that are relevant to their search query. Not only do they strive to provide the best quality results based on what a user searches for but have also begun to return results relative to the users geographic location based on both the Search Engine that they use for their query e.g. www.google.co.nz and which Country they are searching from. These quality results are what drive people to give preference...