Two years have passed since we first wrote the blog post ‘From VR Marketing to vCommerce: What Can Virtual Reality Do For Your Business?’ In our 2018 update, we explore the future of VR and the various uses, opportunities and applications in businesses. We thought it...
GDPR Compliance for WordPress, Magento eCommerce & Joomla Web Development
If you have a WordPress, Magento, Joomla website or eCommerce store, or in fact any website, GDPR comes into force from 25th May 2018 across the EU and will forever change the way that organisations need to manage data and privacy. One aspect of GDPR compliance is...
The Lowdown from Our Virtual Reality Gurus, Rob Bryan and Adam Bullas
Two of Opace’s finest, Rob Bryan and Adam Bullas, have a huge interest in the virtual reality space and have experimented with the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Samsung Gear VR, PlayStation VR and the Google Cardboard. Rob, as the Technical Director, and Adam as the...
Has Oculus Lost the First Generation of Virtual Reality to HTC?
In our previous article, we explored the history rise and fall of VR. It was Oculus who essentially brought about the rebirth of virtual reality in recent years. We’ve already seen in our previous articles that as a concept, virtual reality could technically be dated...
How Businesses & Marketers Can Use Virtual Reality (VR Marketing)
While it can’t be denied that the primary use for virtual reality currently is for gamers, businesses are quickly coming to realise that the use of virtual reality could play a big role in the way in which they market to their customers. This article is part of...
A run down of what we’ve been working on – busy is our middle name here at Opace!
It's been a while since we last mentioned some of our recent projects, so here are four projects that we’ve been working on during the past few months: Redesign & rebuild for Justice Upheld in WordPress Following on from our successful project with Acorns...
Not understanding open source could be your most expensive mistake
Here at Opace, open source is right at the heart of everything we do. Our ethos from the beginning has been to use open source to deliver measurable results for our clients. Many business owners aren’t actually aware of open source or its considerable benefits – so...
Factors to consider when choosing an open source website
In our previous article we explain how not understanding open source could be your most expensive mistake for businesses. As many of our clients will know, we only specialise in open source web design and development here at Opace. Back when we started in 2008, we...
Infographic: How to optimise your CMS or ecommerce site for users & SEO
Are you happy with your website’s performance and/or SEO? Do you think it is meeting the needs of your visitors? If the answer is no, then it may be time to get to work on making some tweaks and improvements, or maybe even if you answered “yes”. To give you a helping...
Infographic: Responsive Web Design (RWD) and how this will impact SEO
What is Responsive Web Design (RWD)? Wikipedia Definition: Responsive Web Design (RWD) is an approach to web design aimed at crafting sites to provide an optimal viewing experience—easy reading and navigation with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrolling—across a...