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Welcome, friends, to the shiny new version of Bookswarm's website - the fourth major iteration of our web presence in our 11 years of operation. I decided it really was time for an upgrade, and used WordPress, the Divi theme and the Divi Builder to create an entirely...

Bookswarm is teaming up with the wonderful Byte The Book to do a FREE webinar about website content for authors. If authors and publishers want to engage audiences it’s important that you don’t just ask people to buy the book. You need to create exciting, exclusive...

If you've ever struggled with the etiquette of 'meeting' new people via e-mail, and the phrase 'nice to e-meet you' makes you want to weep, here's the ideal solution, courtesy of the sublime webcomic XKCD. XKCD is always guaranteed to brighten our day - and for added...

A new ruling by the European Court of Justice has a potentially big impact on websites that deploy Facebook's Like button. There are actually several kinds of 'Like' button - they can allow the user to Like the page or product they're looking at, or to Like the...

Today sees the publication of Tim Hain's unique photographic tome Lap of Honour. When we designed and built the Lap of Honour site for Tim, he and his agent were working on finding a home for it, and we're pleased that it's now been brought to market by sports...

It's been several years since we stepped in to help Barrington Stoke with hosting, support and maintenance of their existing WordPress- and WooCommerce-based website - but behind the scenes we have been working with them on a major design and content update to the...

Yale Representation provides a managed sales representation service in the UK for a number of prestigious publishers, including Verso, Saqi and of course Yale University Press. Bookswarm recently created a new website for them, to replace their old Drupal-based site....

Simon's made another foray in to the world of podcasting, this time joining Mark Stay over at The Bestseller Experiment. The Bestseller Experiment is a weekly podcast presented by Mark Stay and Mark Desvaux, in which they talk with leading lights from the publishing...

Last year we were asked by renowned UK-based editorial consultancy service The Literary Consultancy (TLC) to come and work with them to help them streamline their website offering and assist their users to navigate more easily to the services and content relevant to...

Did we mention we're at London Book Fair for the next three days? OK, we did, repeatedly - but we're mentioning it again, because now we can show you what our sexy stand looks like. Isn't it marvellous? Do come and say hi to us and all the other IPAC companies we're...

Tim Hain’s Lap of Honour is a pictorial journey back to the golden age of motor racing, in which a 60s schoolboy photographer revisits his favourite haunts and heroes, and hitches a ride with the legendary Stirling Moss, whose foreword kickstarts the journey. We...

London Book Fair is next week! Eeek! If you'd like to talk about how Bookswarm can help you with your website design, build or management needs, it's not too late - just drop us a line. We will be on stand 2C60 if you want to come and say hello, but please bear in...

London Book Fair is fast approaching in its new, earlier, March time-slot, and Bookswarm will once again be in attendance. We will be there for all three days (12th to 14th March) so if you would like to meet up and chat about how our website services can help you,...

Created by John Pettigrew, Talking Through My Hat explores bookish businesses and the fantastic people who create them, looking at why business are started, how they keep going and where we can take them in the future. This week, the guest is Bookswarm's very own...

Yes, the day has arrived. The General Data Protection Regulation is being enforced from today, Friday 25th May. If you have taken the first steps on your compliance journey, well done! If you haven't - DON'T PANIC! The Information Commissioner has been doing the media...

We've helped two clients deal with hacked WordPress sites this week. We won't say who they were, but they both had fairly nasty infections which meant that when visitors accessed their sites, new browser tabs would open with spammy content. In one instance, the...

It's been ten years since I started Bookswarm. In that time, we have designed and built a lot of websites. We have made a lot of mistakes. And we have learned a lot of lessons. I sat down to reflect on all of our experiences, and to try and and identify some of the...