Forth Freshwater Fisheries is the parent site which controls two organizations:

• Forth District Salmon Fishery Board
• Forth Fishery Trust

The two organizations are working together in conserving, protecting and enhancing Atlantic Salmon in the River Forth area.

The site, www.fishforth.co.uk has only been relaunched on the 1st of May 2012.

The site, which was designed and developed by Indra-Design has just been launched today (25/4/2012). The main aim of the site is to promote and highlight the accessibility of salmon fishing in Scotland.

Indra-Design would like to thank the ASFB for the opportunity to work with them. It has been a real good experience and challenge working and developing the site.

You can see the newly launched site at:

http://fisheries.asfb.org.uk/

Formed in 2005, RAFTS is a leading independent freshwater conservation charity representing Scotland’s national network of rivers and fisheries Trusts and Foundations.

Cookie Law Site Compliance Audit

Before you take an action, you will have to find out what exactly are the cookies being used on your site. Indra-Design will be able to run a site audit for you. Not all cookies need to be compliance. Some cookies are categorized as “needed” cookies. These cookies are the ones which are necessary for the site to work, for example cookies related to login procedures or cookies which remember your shopping cart items. On the other hand, some cookies need to be compliance and declared to all your users. These cookies are not under the “needed” cookies.

Does My Website Use Cookies

Almost all modern websites use some sort of cookies in order to function. If you are not sure what cookies are, they are just some values (string of numbers or words) stored on your computer when you are browsing the internet. These cookies are used for many different reasons from remembering your shopping cart items to presenting  you with a targeted advertisement.

The new regulation states that you (website owner) have to make sure that the viewers of your website are fully aware and accept the usage of cookies on your website (assuming that your website uses cookies). This is normally done by presenting viewers with options to read all information regarding cookies which are being used and requesting the viewer to agree by ticking a small tickbox.

What Do I Have To Do?

1. Find out if your site uses cookies or not.

2. If your site does use cookies, you can either:

a. Put an additional page informing all cookies on your website. Additionally, a small tickbox is needed to show that the viewer of your website agrees the cookies being used. (See http://www.ico.gov.uk/Global/privacy_statement.aspx for an example solution. Note the box on the top of the page where you have to add a tick on the box to accept the cookies).

OR

b. Remove the cookie (might not be possible as some cookies are necessary for the website to work).

If your website contains some sort of login system or shopping cart, then it is 100% sure that your site uses some sort of cookies.

Can I Ignore This?

We hope that you will not ignore this as the fine for not complying with this new guideline is £500000.

What Would Indra-Design Do?

We would prepare an initial check to help you in terms of identifying what cookies are being used on your website.

We will then produce a complete report detailing all cookies used on your site. These report can be used in your site usage policy regarding the usage of cookies.

Additionally, depending on the result we will also advice you with the necessary actions.

Please get in touch by emailing indra@indra-design.co.uk.

More Information

• Definition of cookies (wikipedia): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie
• The new EU guidelines by ICO : New EU Cookie Law

To find out more about what you need to do pleaseget in touch with us.

Why Is It So Important To Have A Backup?

Your websites are made or constructed from a number of components, mainly files. These files are just the same as files on your computer and they can get corrupted, deleted or “lost”. Some websites would have a database which provide the sites with data stored in the database. The database are essentially files as well, stored in some location on your website server.

Now imagine if you (or someone else) managed to delete your website files on the server, or deleted the database files, which makes the whole website down. If you have a backup, you can just roll back to the previous state, before the deletion took place. But, if you do not have any back up files, you will loose all data which you have been working on. This may not sound bad, but imagine if you have all your purchase records, clients records and shop inventories which you have been building for the last few years, and having to start from scratch again?

How Do I Backup My Website?

There are a few ways to do this, from the “free” way, where you can download all the files to your computer manually, everyday, to the automated “store on backup server” which you do not have to do anything at all once the backup process has been defined.

Please get in touch with us to see what is the best solution for you.

Stewart Campbell Flooring, based in Edinburgh is a successful carpet / flooring solutions specializing in high quality products.

Indra-Design had been working closely with them in identifying their target customers, key words for the search engine optimization (SEO) and producing a clean and fresh looking website templates.

You can see their site at:

www.stewartcampbellflooring.com