Business Tips

In spite of best efforts, sometimes unforeseen issues arise with hosting and email. To improve communications with you, we have set up a system status page. Please bookmark it so you can check the page, for any known email or hosting issues. We will post status updates here: https://cmswebsolutions.statuspage.io/ and will share whatever information we …

Wasn’t that a historic couple of years! At CMS Web Solutions, we’ve been so impressed by our clients’ creativity and responses during this pandemic. Many didn’t change what they did, they changed how they did it. That opened new opportunities, new markets, new ways of running their organization. Big round of applause from us all …

As a digital business, we’ve had the luxury of having an office in Port Perry and the ability to work from home or anywhere Internet access is available. But, in order to do that, we’ve had to put processes and systems in place to support that work option. Infrastructure VOIP (Voice Over IP) Phones: We …

Don’t be fooled by domain renewal scams which you may receive by postal letter as a “Domain Name Expiration Notice”or by email. By mail they come from iDNS Canada, which has also been known as Domain Registry of Canada (DROC). These notices look very legitimate and even provide a return envelope and you can actually …

Important Reminder from Google: Review your Data Retention Settings before they take affect on May 25th, 2018! Effective May 25th, 2018 Google is changing the data retention controls of your Google Analytics. If Google Analytics is set up on your own account (as is the case with most of our clients) then you would have …

Question: how often do you experience Microsoft, Apple or other apps sending you updates? They do it because of security patches, upgrades and improvements. So, who’s doing that for your company website?  In the last few years web designers have gravitated towards purchasing themes. These are pre-made templates often loaded with small scripts of codes called plug-ins. Buying and customizing themed websites …

There is a saying: “before climbing a ladder, make sure the ground is solid and that you’re climbing the right wall.”  It seems straightforward, but many companies start climbing without asking the right question. They end up going down a path that is more complex than required. They also waste time and money. And worst of all, …

I sat across from my accountant, who is also a web client, and asked her “Do you think your website is important to your business?” She answered “Oh yes. I even got a nice client yesterday who picked us over the competition because of our website.” Next I asked, “So what percentage of your business do you believe you get …

The iPhone launched in 2007. Since then it’s incredible how quickly mobile phones have become a part of our lives. So what’s next?  In the last year, technology related to speech recognition has had major breakthroughs. The accuracy keeps getting better and it will only improve. And as it does, more people will stop typing …

The call or email goes something like this:  “Help!  I’ve been hacked. My website has been down for over a day now. We are losing business!” We are starting to see what we predict will be a very bad trend that will affect a large number of the organizations that are buying WordPress websites. And those organizations have …