What is website hosting?
6 April 2021
As a web developer, it’s all too easy for me to assume others understand terms that are essentially industry specific technical jargon. Website hosting is one of these terms that can easily be overlooked when working on a flashy new website, but it...
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First impressions count – what does your website say about you?
19 February 2021
People make up their mind about you within minutes of meeting you, we base this judgement on many things from the type of cloths you have on to the sound of your voice. The same thing is true of a website, people will look at and evaluate the website...
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How QR codes work
10 September 2018
QR codes have taken the world by storm in the past few years, it all started with a few popping up on high tech items like phone instructions and IT product packaging but these days they are everywhere from bus stops to the fruit and veg section at y...
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Boost conversions with a landing page
10 June 2018
Landing pages are special pages on a website that have promoted a single marketing message, these landing pages let you focus your visitors attention on the message in the hopes of increasing conversions and make your website more effective. Website ...
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What is Content Strategy? and why should I care?
19 October 2017
Being a website developer I know that content is important for many different reasons, from my point of view content is important because it is fundamental to a websites success as it directly affects the SEO performance of the website. To others con...
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What is Google Analytics and how do I install it?
23 July 2017
Google Analytics is a website tracking service that you can install for free on your website, this service when installed will monitor your visitors providing you with vital information on how many visitors your website is getting. The information co...
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Reduce the cost of a new website / redesign
31 January 2017
When it comes to looking at a new website or a redesign the biggest issue is the cost of the project, but there are several things you can do to help reduce this by making it easier for your web developer to get on with the ‘real’ work. T...
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Just how easy is it to update your own WordPress website?
23 January 2017
WordPress is an open source Content Management System (CMS) that enables people who do not know how to code websites to update their own website using a simple and easy to use ‘admin’ area. This system typically lets you update the copy o...
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How to write good content
17 December 2016
Content is vital to the success of any website project no matter what topic the site is covering without good content the site will not be able to attract visitors and without visitors there is no point in having a website in the first place, the con...
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Website Design Projects – What to Expect
7 June 2016
As a business owner who is about to get a website, you would want the best features with high visibility and recognition. A professional web design and development company can help you build this quickly. Bear in mind though, that creating and design...
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The ongoing process of running a website
3 January 2016
A website project is a big undertaking no matter the size of your business it can involve allot of people both inside and outside of your business and needs to be carefully managed to ensure the website is as effective as possible. One of the f...
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The importance of personal projects
13 December 2015
I consider myself lucky in that I do a job I love, programming and working with code is something I really enjoy doing and as a website developer I get paid to do it but unfortunately I do not get to pick and choose the projects I work on – thi...
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What is a Content Management System?
30 October 2015
When building a website there are several methods we take – being a web developer part of my job is to look at the project and the client to decide which is the best way to build the website. Normally it boils down to two main options a static ...
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What is web hosting? and how to choose the right type
4 September 2015
Every website you visit while browsing the web is hosted on some form on web hosting, web servers are specialised computer systems that leverage cloud computing and are set up with one purpose in mind – to host websites. This means that all asp...
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So what these SEO keywords my website developer keeps asking me for?
18 July 2015
If you have a website or are in the process of starting a website development project you will probably of read or heard about keywords, especially when it comes to the websites SEO strategy but what are they and why are they important? Put simply ke...
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Using WordPress as a website CMS
17 July 2015
WordPress is a well known and popular CMS (content management system) for running blogs however it is also a solid CMS for running a website (even more so if it has a blog). While its true WordPress is targeted towards running a blog is more than cap...
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How to find industry news to blog about
11 June 2015
One of the hardest things to do when you run a blog or website is to think of new content to keep your website fresh and up to date, this blog post will look at ways of keeping updated with industry news to help find topics that you can blog about. T...
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What are website wireframes?
10 May 2015
Wireframes have been around for years and chances are you have been creating them for all sorts of projects – not just web / website related ones. It is essentially a name given to the process of drawing out rough sketches of what the website w...
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Optimizing images on your website for SEO
1 August 2014
Search engine optimization is an ongoing job, there is always more you can do to improve the ranking of your website in the search results. Once you have covered the basics of page title and descriptions as well as sorting out the content structure t...
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What is a bespoke website and what are the benefits?
10 July 2014
In this blog post we will be looking at a few different website design methods and exploring the benefits of each method to help you make the right decision for your next website project be it a website redesign or a new business just starting out wi...
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Social Media and Its Role in the Business World
18 June 2014
There’s a good chance that you, your partner or someone in your family is already a member of a popular social networking website. I’m talking about the giants like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Apart from using them to socialise with friends a...
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