Archives by Robin Scott

It is getting to that time of year, again, when the roads around the Dales (and further afield) will begin to be filled by pony and trap as visitors and traders convene upon Appleby for the annual horse fair. As a lot of people access this, the Silicon Dales blog, for information about local events, [...]

Our 2013 Agricultural Show calendar tells us it is Otley Show tomorrow – Saturday 18th May 2013. Otley Show will take place at The Show Ground, Bridge End, West Yorkshire. Tickets will be available at the gate. You can find out more information at the Otley Show website. We hope you have a great day [...]

With every web development project, we now have to test new sites (and alterations) on a huge range of handheld devices and browsers. It was great to see, last week, when we launched our new look for the summer last week, the Silicon Dales website looking really good in a variety of devices. However, an [...]

If you have recently setup an Amazon EC2 instance and would like to configure access to Port 443 (HTTPS:// traffic) on your new instance, there are a few things you should do. First Step – Allow Port 443 in your Security Group Firstly, you need to tell your EC2 instance that it is allowed to [...]

Hilary Jones, the ISO Certification Consultant operating as H Jones Associates, asked Silicon Dales to complete a redesign of her website in the early part of 2013. Like a number of clients, Hilary Jones had found an off-the-shelf web creation service (in this case 1&1′s sitebuilder product) to be too cumbersome and unresponsive to deliver [...]

We like innovative ideas, at Silicon Dales, so when Scyways Ltd, the company with ambitious plans to create raised cycleways and modular bridges out of fibre reinforced plastics (FRPs), came to us looking to create a new web presence, we were delighted to be able to assist. Following an initial meeting, Silicon Dales were able [...]

We passed the one year since launch anniversary at the end of March 2013, and, as we were so busy with our clients’ projects, we didn’t mark the occasion. However, to celebrate Silicon Dales’ 1st birthday, we have now created a new website (right here, at SiliconDales.com) and logo to take us into year 2 [...]

At Silicon Dales, we love agricultural shows (none more so than our local show, the Wensleydale Show, for which we are delighted to have produced the show website) so, because a lot of our traffic is from rural people, and people who like the countryside, we’ve decided to help you out with a big list [...]

Over the past few months, we’ve recommended using Facebook advertising to grow a business or event Facebook page to a number of clients. When we’ve done this, our clients have usually said “How do we achieve this?”. Because it isn’t as intuitive as it perhaps might be, and because Facebook has tinkered a little with [...]

Our business is called Silicon Dales, and has been since we launched this web design, web development and app development brand in March 2012, but, often our new business comes to us from referrals – and this can sometimes take the form of good old fashioned word-of-mouth. But it is 2013 now, and word of [...]