Social Media for Business (B2B and B2C marketing) The social media industry is growing exponentially, and there are no signs of it slowing down any time soon. For businesses looking to expand, having an active social media presence is the way forward. In this article,...
GDPR Compliance for WordPress, Magento & 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...
Backlink Your Way to SEO Success: An Up-To-Date Link Building Guide
Backlinks: Let's Start With the Basics So, what are backlinks and does link building help your SEO? A backlink is a URL anchor on another website (other than your own domain) which links to a page on your site. These kinds of backlinks are sometimes also called...
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...
How to Get Your Story Seen: Acorns Children’s Hospice Web Design Case Study
There are some websites out there that offer great products and others which are for an extremely worthwhile cause, but no matter how outstanding the organisation is, without an equally outstanding website and marketing, you’re never going to be a success online. We...
Infinite Possibilities & Revolutionary Web Design with the Divi 2.4 Theme for WordPress
Not every WordPress user is a web designer or developer. With this in mind, WordPress theme development company Elegant Themes decided to create a theme that would allow web designers and even end-users to design their own site layouts inside WordPress, without...
Why 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...