News & Insights
Tips, updates and insights on software development, web design, branding and automation from the Bollabo team.
Most goal apps are good at collecting intentions and bad at telling you where you stand. Here is what changes when the whole product is built to answer one honest question.
Almost every goal you set has a clock on it. A revenue target for the quarter, a 5k race in the spring, a book by the end of the year, lose 6kg of body weight before a wedding. The date is doing quiet work in the background, and it is the one thing most tracking tools...
Stop Asking Sponsors for Money. Start Using Their Expertise.
Grassroots football clubs work incredibly hard to survive. Behind every training session, every fixture and every tournament are volunteers giving up evenings and weekends to keep everything running. The reality is that most clubs simply don’t have enough hours in the...
Talking Careers with the Next Generation at Hillside Primary School
Last Wednesday, 1st July, the Bollabo team headed over to Hillside Primary School in Skelmersdale for their Year 5 and 6 careers day. It was a brilliant morning spent chatting with curious, sharp young minds about what we actually do all day, why we love it, and how a...
Building Digital Infrastructure for China
When a client wants to establish an online presence in China, it’s rarely as simple as copying a website from one server to another. Recently, we helped support the launch of lisconn.com.cn by setting up and configuring infrastructure within Alibaba Cloud, one of...
Supporting Inclusive Football at Burscough FC
At Bollabo, we’re passionate about supporting our local community, and one of the projects we’re particularly proud to be involved with is the SEN football programme at Burscough FC. The sessions bring together around 30 children with a wide range of additional needs,...
Introducing Guardian: Because Your Website Shouldn’t Be the Last to Know
If you run a business with a WordPress website, you probably don’t spend your days thinking about plugin updates, PHP versions, or whether your contact form is actually sending emails. And why would you? You’ve got a business to run. But here’s the...
From Soggy Notebooks to Semi-Automated Referee Reports
Anyone who’s done referee match day coaching will know the routine. You turn up with a notebook and a pencil, find a quiet spot on the touchline, and start observing the game. The aim is simple: watch the referee, capture key moments, and use those notes to have a...
When Websites Were Fun (and Why We Still Like Building Cool Stuff)
There was a time when websites could be genuinely unique. Back then, design wasn’t dictated by SEO checklists, Core Web Vitals, or “best practice layouts”. You could open a site and immediately feel like someone had designed it – not just...