https://www.omic.ltd An RSS feed of biscuits shared directly from Sub@omic Limited https://www.omic.ltd/web_images/merlinWD/sub%40omic12WhiteSOLID.svg https://www.omic.ltd/biscuits en-gb (c) 2026 Steve Whiting Web Diffusion Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:36:41 GMT https://www.omic.ltd/biscuit.php?pg=213 No-one ever closed a business opportunity with the phrase and, for full terms and conditions, check out our socials. No. What people who are serious about closing business opportunities would say is: so to enter this competition (and to view our full… Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:36:41 GMT https://www.omic.ltd/biscuit.php?pg=213 https://www.omic.ltd/biscuit.php?pg=212 Telling people in business that you built your own website stopped sounding exciting somewhere back towards the turn of the century. Now, some 20 years later, it should be abundantly clear that the purpose of a website is not to show-off what you're… Mon, 25 May 2026 11:17:01 GMT https://www.omic.ltd/biscuit.php?pg=212 https://www.omic.ltd/biscuit.php?pg=193 - They: "Yeah, I've built my own website…"- Me: "Cool. I can see you cut your own hair as well!" Sun, 17 May 2026 14:00:09 GMT https://www.omic.ltd/biscuit.php?pg=193 https://www.omic.ltd/biscuit.php?pg=211 So, this evening, I asked ChatGPT "Tell me how AI would work in my web design business." It then forecasted gloom and doom, saying: "If you ignore it competitors will undercut you on speed and price." I hate to say it but they already do… Tue, 05 May 2026 19:40:53 GMT https://www.omic.ltd/biscuit.php?pg=211 https://www.omic.ltd/biscuit.php?pg=210 I have decided that I need a new website home page. The present home page was assembled to show-off all that the Web Diffusion Home Module could do. I now want something that's cleaner, less intense and far simpler. A different take on the concept of the… Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:11:56 GMT https://www.omic.ltd/biscuit.php?pg=210 https://www.omic.ltd/biscuit.php?pg=209 There's a very strong argument that goes: It's never just one website that you need. The reason being that a website has to dynamically adapt and flex according to the display screen that's being used to look at it. The collection of… Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:34:29 GMT https://www.omic.ltd/biscuit.php?pg=209 https://www.omic.ltd/biscuit.php?pg=208 But you sure as hell need a website to prove that: i) you're no longer a start-up; and ii) you take yourself seriously. Otherwise it's just shorts of cats flushing toilets for the lols, isn't it? Wed, 15 Apr 2026 07:32:27 GMT https://www.omic.ltd/biscuit.php?pg=208 https://www.omic.ltd/biscuit.php?pg=207 It's always worth remembering what a webpage for a responsive (mobile) website actually looks like. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:43:18 GMT https://www.omic.ltd/biscuit.php?pg=207 The true signal that AI has conquered humanity is when you no longer see recruitment ads on LinkedIn for Head of AI. Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:03:49 GMT https://www.omic.ltd/biscuit.php?pg=206 https://www.omic.ltd/biscuit.php?pg=205 Some years back, I wrote an original blog post on the website for The Art of Search - the post argued that new business could be found, through Search, by not writing about the thing you want to sell. Now, 2.5 years later, that strategy is still winning… Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:10:05 GMT https://www.omic.ltd/biscuit.php?pg=205 https://www.omic.ltd/biscuit.php?pg=204 A key element of our website design and build strategy is encouraging our Customers to go HUGE. Sticking rigidly to this drive for better visibility is W.H.Allsop & Sons (Builders) Ltd - beginning to grow their website just 3 months after it was… Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:33:32 GMT https://www.omic.ltd/biscuit.php?pg=204 https://www.omic.ltd/biscuit.php?pg=203 Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:24:07 GMT https://www.omic.ltd/biscuit.php?pg=203 https://www.omic.ltd/biscuit.php?pg=199 Yesterday, I watched with interest as a spambot tried its level-best, in vain, to get past the defences put-up by a contact form of Web Diffusion - the exclusive website management system built by Sub@omic that runs our website and those of almost all… Wed, 11 Feb 2026 12:28:28 GMT https://www.omic.ltd/biscuit.php?pg=199 https://www.omic.ltd/biscuit.php?pg=198 Superintendent Forsythe: "DS Smith, I want deep background on the victim, the what, the who and the where - so we can begin to understand how, why and when." DS Smith: "Gov, I'm already ahead of you; I've taken a look at his company… Wed, 28 Jan 2026 21:50:09 GMT https://www.omic.ltd/biscuit.php?pg=198 https://www.omic.ltd/biscuit.php?pg=172 Working through the first thoughts of a design today, it's clear that what I designed and presented was good but wasn't exactly what the client had in mind. This is not a bad thing. A designer starts from a blank sheet of paper when the client… Wed, 14 Jan 2026 12:38:24 GMT https://www.omic.ltd/biscuit.php?pg=172 https://www.omic.ltd/biscuit.php?pg=197 I scheduled a post on Instagram yesterday to mention the Winter Warmers available from lunchtime today at the Marquis of Granby, Harpenden. Nothing particularly outstanding about the regular scheduling of a post on social media for a Customer, but I am… Wed, 14 Jan 2026 12:04:18 GMT https://www.omic.ltd/biscuit.php?pg=197 https://www.omic.ltd/biscuit.php?pg=196 I know I'm not alone in this. I know your inbox is routinely populated by spammers trying to make-out like they're selling professional web design services. I know you hate it and probably almost as much as I do.What immediately irks is that… Fri, 19 Dec 2025 10:44:49 GMT https://www.omic.ltd/biscuit.php?pg=196 Me, I call it nat URL selection. Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:13:31 GMT https://www.omic.ltd/biscuit.php?pg=194 https://www.omic.ltd/biscuit.php?pg=192 For the past month or so, the feeds of the socials have been full of chatter about changes made to various platforms; be that a change to the shapes of photos posted or a modification to the way search works. Search still works. It works in the way it… Wed, 19 Nov 2025 09:05:46 GMT https://www.omic.ltd/biscuit.php?pg=192 https://www.omic.ltd/biscuit.php?pg=191 This week I was asked to integrate one of our websites with the output of a third party's gallery/library system. I'm yet to see the content that we're to share but my expectation, right now, isn't very high.You see, I took a look at the… Sat, 01 Nov 2025 08:08:59 GMT https://www.omic.ltd/biscuit.php?pg=191 https://www.omic.ltd/biscuit.php?pg=190 1,000 days ago, I published the first non-test biscuit using Web Diffusion's microBlog.The development of the microBlog module of our website management system had been underway for some time and my switch to RSS was prompted by the clear message… Thu, 23 Oct 2025 09:48:30 GMT https://www.omic.ltd/biscuit.php?pg=190 https://www.omic.ltd/biscuit.php?pg=189 Yesterday evening, one of our own websites broke-through the monthly bandwidth limit that applies to its web hosting account. Once the web hosting system recognised the issue an alert was sent to us and the website automatically went offline.An instant… Thu, 04 Sep 2025 10:06:12 GMT https://www.omic.ltd/biscuit.php?pg=189 https://www.omic.ltd/biscuit.php?pg=188 Nothing says 'I don't understand the web' like download the PDF. Tue, 26 Aug 2025 13:00:33 GMT https://www.omic.ltd/biscuit.php?pg=188 https://www.omic.ltd/biscuit.php?pg=187 This quote, famously uttered by Mark Twain, seems rather apt. The cesspit of passion that is LinkedIn seems, to me, to be awash these days with bold assertions that SEO is dead. Maybe not. Maybe the cowboys have simply found something else to whoop and… Thu, 14 Aug 2025 09:46:17 GMT https://www.omic.ltd/biscuit.php?pg=187 https://www.omic.ltd/biscuit.php?pg=186 Every now and then, we're asked what bespoke web design actually is. It's a great question. There will be many web design businesses out there stating that they offer bespoke design; businesses which then go on to state that they build your website in… Wed, 02 Jul 2025 12:14:25 GMT https://www.omic.ltd/biscuit.php?pg=186