TWDA Last Week in The Retailery

All good things come to an end. At the end of this week, the twda team will be moving out of The Retailery offices. We have been here from the beginning, since the offices first opened in November 2016. This Friday, we will be moving out of the Retailery and we would like to invite…

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Drupalgeddon

What is Drupalgeddon? A recent (early 2018) exploit of the Drupal CMS (Content Management System) has been confirmed as allowing hackers to inject malicious code into Drupal websites that affects all versions 6, 7 and 8.  Shortly after it was announced, it is estimated that over 80% of all not-updated Drupal websites were affected. The…

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GDPR To Be Enforced This Week

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is going to be enforced across Europe on the 25th May 2018, replacing the Data Protection Act 1988. GDPR will apply to any business that processes the personal data of EU citizens. Lots of speculation has been surrounding the GDPR act, and it has been a hot topic on…

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How to effectively utilize social media

Social media is a very big part of marketing these days, it’s free to use and highly effective in reaching out to new people when done correctly. It’s no good having thousands of followers and not engaging with them, that’s the problem a lot of businesses face with social media. A frequently asked question is…

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New Digital Marketing Apprentice

TWDA welcomes Digital Marketing Apprentice TWDA Web Design are delighted to welcome to the team as a digital marketing apprentice, working alongside Business person of the year David Hodder. I hopes to expand his knowledge and skills here at TWDA with the support of our multi-award-winning Superteam. Here’s a snippet about our new team member:…

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A Junior Developer Joins TWDA

TWDA are delighted to welcome Kiran Paul to the team as a junior developer. Kiran finished her Maths Degree at Keele University and learned her enjoyment for solving challenging problems was going to be fulfilled within the development sector. She will be involved in developing websites, maintenance and developing bespoke software and mobile applications for…

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Top 5 free caching plugins

What is caching? Caching, in its simplest form, improves your websites load speed.  In a computing context a cache is a place where data can be temporarily stored. Caching plugins will cache a large chunk of your websites data for you and store it on your browser, effectively speeding up the websites load speed on…

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Havering Business Awards Winners

Havering Business Awards – Winners On Thursday the 8th of February, the twda team attended the Havering Business Awards.  Managing Director David Hodder and Digital Marketer Ryan Barlow were nominated as finalists for the Havering Business Person of the Year and Apprentice of the Year respectively. To be finalists for the much coveted and highly competitive…

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Havering Business Awards Finalists – 2017/2018

Business Person and Apprentice of the year – Finalists TWDA are delighted to have been shortlisted for the upcoming Havering Business Awards under the following categories: Business Person of the Year Apprentice of the Year Managing director David Hodder has been named as finalist for the Business Person of the Year category and is delighted…

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TWDA Christmas Event

With Christmas and the New Year holidays fast approaching,  twda would like to thank you all of our customers and suppliers for your business in 2017 and as a show of gratitude we would be delighted if you would join us for an evening of festive cheer, on Thursday the 14th of December from 6.30pm…

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