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  • GovPress: a relaunch for G Cloud 9

    Here at dxw we practice what we preach, iterating and improving the services that we offer based on our users’ needs. With the latest iteration of G-Cloud now available we’ve relaunched our GovPress secure WordPress hosting platform with new support plans that better meet our users’ needs. GovPress will continue to be available  exclusively to…

  • Silicon Milkroundabout May 2017

    Over the weekend, a few of the people here at dxw are heading to Silicon Milkroundabout which is being held at The Old Truman Brewery on Brick Lane. This is a tech-specific recruitment event that we first attended last year. We met a lot of very enthusiastic and skilled people that came along to our…

  • Patch paralysis and risk culture

    The recent ransomware attack which impacted NHS computer systems has brought into focus how much the public sector relies on outdated and poorly maintained systems. Our focus at dxw is primarily on delivering web technologies. We follow the Service Manual for guidance on the minimum supported browser, but exceptions often still need to be made…

  • That stuff in your head? It really does matter

    Hey everybody, It’s Mental Health Awareness Week so I have a confession to make to you all: I have the loathsome combination of depression and anxiety. Sometimes I find it really hard to even motivate myself out of the horizontal position I am in due to the crushing nature of it all. Yay! I live…

  • Changes to the way we charge for GovPress hosting

    From the end of this month, we’ll start generating GovPress invoices automatically, based on the usage data that your hosted service generates. This will start to affect invoices from 1st June onwards. We’ve been working on this change for a while, and are excited to tell you about the improvements this will bring. Why are we…

  • Stop. Collaborate and listen! Working with clients to find research participants

    Here at dxw we recently completed a discovery project for NHS Jobs. In this project we wanted to know how people currently used NHS Jobs and what they needed in a recruitment tool. Finding people who use NHS Jobs was simple in some cases, and tricky in others. We identified three main user groups: job…