Urban Haze Blog
How to Fix “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute”
When WordPress shows this error message, it usually replaces your entire site, which isn't a great impression to give to your customers. It's one of the most common error messages that trips people up. The message itself is caused when WordPress is trying to update...
When companies become too big
The nature of most businesses is to grow. Urban Haze itself has grown from a small one-man self-employed sole trader to a limited company, now with 2 full-time employees and wealth of carefully chosen contractors, partners and suppliers. As things grow, there's a need...
WiFi’s Dirty Little UK Secret
Did you know that WiFi in the UK is different from that in other countries? As far as usage goes once you're connected, you'd hardly notice the difference from one country to another but there's one really important issue that affects us alone in the UK and that issue...
Gear4Music Studio Rack Cabinet Review
Introduction Gear4Music's Studio Rack Cabinet has the potential to be a really great item that's very desirable for a select audience. It's both a presentable "wooden" piece of furniture as well as having the perfect internal width of 19 inches and includes rackmount...
Public WiFi for Businesses
If you're wanting to put Public WiFi into your business, it's something that needs to be done carefully. First and most importantly, you don't want your WiFi guests to have access to your private business systems and business data! Secondly, you want to make sure that...
Red Flags for Dodgy Texts and Emails
I seem to be getting asked quite a lot about whether certain emails and messages are scams. Recently I came across this fantastic video of Frank Abagnale. An American Con Artist who was so good at his trade, when he was eventually caught, he worked with the FBI to...
Be Adaptable and Welcome Change
Five years ago, my family’s first thought when they needed something from the shops, was not to surf the internet. They would have planned a trip to a town centre or shopping complex and dressed specially for the occasion. It would have been more a day out than a...
How to Spot a Scam from its Links
As the Internet becomes more and more accepted as the defecto place to find information, fraudsters will use this to try and take advantage. One of the things that’s on the rise at the moment are scam text messages where the sender pretends to be a trusted...
Interacting with your Customers Online
It's usually a given that any business wants to offer their products and services online to their customers. What's not so well known is that for every 100 customers that visit your website, on average only 1 of them completes any business online business goal. This...