12 November 2007 : Get Safe Online Awareness Week

Get Safe Online is sponsored by the British government, SOCA and leading businesses such as Microsoft and the HSBC. It's objective is to inform businesses and individuals of online risks and the steps that can be taken to ensure a safer online experience. Their site is written in plain, simple English and as well as containing advice also includes updates of the latest risks such as viruses and online crime.

13 April 2007 : Google Checkout launched in UK

Google have launched their online payment system 'Checkout' in the UK. Checkout is for processing credit and debit card payments for online transactions. Having debuted in the US nine months ago, it will allow UK merchants to process payments fee-free until the end of 2007. Thereafter, the fee will be 15p + 1.5% of each transaction. Google Adwords customers, however, will get £10 worth of payment processing free for every £1 spent on advertising with Google. This compares very favourably with Checkout’s main competitor, Ebay’s Paypal payment system - their fee per transaction being 20p + 3.4% (on sales of < £1,500/month).

For more information or to sign up for Checkout go to http://checkout.google.co.uk.

13 April 2007 : Sage Line 50 v8 and v9 being retired

Sage are in the process of withdrawing support on the following products: Sage Line 50 version 8 (with SageCover); Sage Line 50 version 9; Sage Instant Accounts version 8 (with SageCover). Until 30th June 2007 we can offer up to 20% discount on upgrade prices. Contact us for more information or to order your upgrade.

1 March 2007 : Brown RS Leaflet

Please download a copy of our current leaflet which contains a summary of our services.

Download Brown RS leaflet (168k PDF file)

19 February 2007 : Moving Problems?? Part 2

The Brown RS Web Site Migration Service takes the risk and the pain out of moving your web site to a new hosting provider. It is included in our hosting packages and is also available to customers taking hosting elsewhere. Read more...

19 February 2007 : Moving Problems?? Part 1

Ofcom has introduced new regulations to make switching broadband suppliers an easier process. Read more...

19 February 2007 : Sage Line 50 2007 Update 4

Sage have released an update to the latest version of their accounting software. This update fixes several issues and all customers are urged to upgrade. Download Sage Line 50 2007 Update 4

13 February 2007 : Company Information on Websites and Emails

Following changes to the Companies Act every company should include their company registration number, place of registration and registered address on their web site, all email transmissions and order forms. For further details see the article on Out-Law.

15 November 2006 : .eu and .mobi domain names now available

There are 2 new domain name suffixes now available through Brown RS. .eu is intended for businesses trading within the European Union and is predicted to become the European equivalent of the .com domains. To mark the expansion of the mobile internet .mobi domain names are reserved for sites specifically designed to work on mobile devices such as phones and PDAs. Please see our domain name pricing.

17 February 2006 : Promoting your website

As you have spent time and money creating a web site to promote your business it is now important to advertise in order to attract visitors. This article details several simple steps you can take.

31 October 2005 : Web Hosting FAQs

We have produced some online documentation to help our clients with the operation of their web hosting. This will be a continually evolving document and customer input is very much appreciated.