After lunch today we found a young swan in our car park which had clearly lost it’s way! Although we are pretty near to the River Colne it would have had to have strolled down one of the busiest streets in Colchester and then work it’s way round a few buildings to find us. We [...]

Slowly but surely WDL are taking steps towards a greener business. We think getting ‘green bins’ for the office is a good place to start (we got ours from Nigel’s Eco Store). It might not seem like a big step, but it is a step in the right direction. As far as we’re concerned it’s [...]

What makes us tick at work? Why do we get up in the morning? How can we keep motivated in a work environment? These, and many other related questions are ones we all ask ourselves from time to time. At WDL we believe having strong business values, a mission, a vision and instilling a company [...]

Your choice of hosting for your website is arguably the most important decision you’ll make in the lifetime of the site. The quality and features of your chosen hosting service will directly influence the performance and availability of your site for you and your customers. A good hosting package will give you the services you [...]

You’ve gone to the trouble of setting up your business on various social networks because you know you need to. You’re still not quite sure why it’s important, and you find it hard to measure it’s success, but you regularly post updates because you know you should. And you tell yourself, “What’s the point in [...]

A few months ago WDL posted a small article outlining our Twitter and Facebook Setup service. Since then we have developed the service beyond the setup stage to include posting and following. Details can be seen below: Twitter and Facebook -  Setup To setup accounts with Twitter and Facebook using your business branding and company [...]

I have wanted us, as a company, to get more involved in community and charity work for a while now. We are doing our bit for the community by setting up Colchester Digital, which is now 80 members strong after only 4 months, and now we are getting started with the charity side of things. [...]

  When WDL were contacted with regards to building a website for Colchester Executive Job Club we understood the thinking behind it and what they were trying to achieve. Losing your job can happen to any of us at any time and as such we felt compelled to help with the project. We offered our [...]

Unless you have been in hiding without access to any kind of media whatsoever it would have been hard to miss a QR code over the last few years. You will no doubt be aware of the strange looking little collection of black and white squares that adorn advertisements on bus shelters in magazines, shops [...]

What are you doing with your marketing? Have you done any recently? If you are struggling with where to start, or even if you already have a marketing department, the best place to focus your attention with any online business is with SEO. If you can pull together a well thought out and implemented SEO [...]