Linda Scott

Linda is the Director responsible for content & compliance at Silicon Dales. With 14 years experience working on content strategy for clients, Linda understands the needs and goals of high quality brands and publications.

Linda also oversees the policies, procedures and compliance work at Silicon Dales. For a consult on GDPR or web regulations, or for content related to your B2B compliance responsibilities, get in touch.
A brief history
Linda has a BA in Politics from Newcastle University. This included studying European Union law, the structures of UK legislation and statistical analysis.

Linda joined the business that became Silicon Dales in 2007. Linda became a company director when Silicon Dales incorporated in 2010. Read more about the company history here.
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Summit Retreats Website Nominated for AWWWARDS

The fresh new website for Summit Retreats (luxury alpine getaways) has been nominated for an AWWWARDS. Created by Silicon Dales, the responsive, full-screen design took 2 months to build owing to thousands of high-res chalet images and data points needed to feed the new website. The AWWWARDS prize aims to “discover, recognize, and promote the …

Silicon Dales are now official affiliated WooWorkers. What does that mean? It means we’re experienced at integrating WooCommerce with WordPress and customising WooThemes to work well with your product range. What does that mean? We can make you an online shop which looks great and has been tested by millions of users around the world. …

Amazon Cloudfront – More Bang for your Buck!

Silicon Dales’ hosting clients can get a dedicated IP address and Cloudfront hosting by Amazon. Speed up your website and increase your search rankings! How Does It Work? Amazon CloudFront takes static content from your website (the stuff that doesn’t change much) and hosts it in the cloud – all around the world. So, when …

Akismet Spam Protection

All Silicon Dales’ Web Maintenance customers are now benefiting from the Silicon Dales Enterprise Licence for Akismet spam protection. Akismet is a smart algorithm for spam protection, which “gets smarter while you sleep”. Existing pricing plans are not affected by this upgrade. If you would like to get Akismet protection for your website as part of a …

18th Century Web Fonts

We have been looking for some really fancy 19th Century web fonts as part of a project to put some information from 1800’s history books onto the internet. Here are a couple we found: Unifraktur Maguntia This is a fancy poster display font inspired by German 19th Century foundries who originally made fonts for paper …

Add RSS to a Mailchimp Newsletter

Email is a really great way to stay in touch with your customers and all the statistics point to it being a major driver of new business. That’s why we’ve included some tips for getting the most out of your email newsletter below: RSS into Mailchimp Aside from RSS-driven campaigns, Mailchimp also allows you to …

A Fresh Look for Silicon Dales

A new look Silicon Dales website has just launched. If you like the new website and would like something similar for your own website, simply get in touch to discuss your ideas. Update – March 2018 To keep you posted on this, since going live on this version we have: Restructured our URLs Updated the …

How to Scrub HTML from OpenOffice.org Calc

If you’re importing and exporting content from websites via CSV it can be useful to scrub the HTML or formatting from descriptions and product details. On OpenOffice.org Calc you can do this by going to Edit > Find & Replace Search for <.*> Replace with: nothing Your content will be scrubbed of HTML formatting – at …

Getting Started with the Enfold Advanced Layout Editor – Video Tutorial

Enfold is a popular theme option for our smaller “DIY” clients. The results are immensely professional and there are some really exciting features such as the masonry gallery. For those looking to get started with Enfold, the developers behind this theme, Kriesi, provide really top class support and heaps of information in the forms of walk-throughs and demonstrations.

Silicon Dales Now an Official Google Apps Reseller

Silicon Dales is now an official reseller for Google’s Gmail for Domains – AKA Google Workspace. This gives our clients access to a world beating cloud-based email service as well as online document sharing tools. Google Workspace Package Gmail for Domains includes: up to 30 GB of storage custom email addresses email groups multiple domains routing …