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Relax with your beverage of choice and pick up some creative inspiration for your business website.

How does a website affect brand reputation?

By Lisa Penn | 11 February 2021
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It’s very easy, especially for businesses and organisations that haven’t focused much on their online presence until recently, to regard issues like branding and reputation as almost entirely separate to the matter of website design. But in truth, these aspects of your brand’s promotional efforts are finely intertwined with each other. Let’s focus specifically on […]

3 simple ways to clean up your website

By Edward Solomon | 17 December 2020
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Cleaning up: something many of us have had plenty of time for in 2020, often being confined to our homes week after week. However, you might not have realised how easily you can apply your decluttering efforts to your website, too – or at least, how you can do it. Here are just a few […]

Top 5 branding rules to get right

By Edward Solomon | 5 November 2020
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Do you already have a good idea of what you want your organisation’s brand to look and feel like, or does the branding or rebranding process feel like witchcraft to you? Whichever category of the above you might be in, it’s instructive to consider some of the qualities possessed by brands that have already achieved […]

4 things every good small business website has

By Edward Solomon | 22 October 2020
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One thing about business website design that small and ambitious firms often don’t appreciate as much as they should, is that you can’t simply throw anything and everything at it to make it a success. Triumph or failure with your business website is subject to a formula, with rules. While a Pablo Picasso or Jackson […]

Does your small business actually need a website?

By Edward Solomon | 20 August 2020
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Even in the post-Coronavirus world, in which we’ve seen dramatic scenes of high-street stores temporarily or permanently closed due to lockdown restrictions – all while online shopping via ecommerce websites has largely flourished, the title of this blog post is a fair question. After all, your business may be a very locally oriented one, with […]

3 simple mistakes to avoid on your new website

By Edward Solomon | 11 June 2020
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Even the most popular and longest established website was at one point just a glint in its creator’s eye. All businesses and charitable organisations have to start somewhere when setting up a website, but even if they take a cautious approach, mistakes can still happen. Here are just three cardinal mistakes to avoid. 1. Not […]

Maximise lockdown time now by checking your website

By Edward Solomon | 28 May 2020
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Although we may now finally be reaching the point where some aspects of COVID-19 lockdowns around the world are starting to be lifted, this is all the more reason for you to check on your website because you may soon lack the time for any behind-the-scenes housekeeping. Your business or organisation may have traditionally been […]

The basics of adaptive vs responsive website design

By Edward Solomon | 23 April 2020
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One of the first questions that brands looking to design or redesign their website need to answer these days, is whether they would prefer an adaptive or responsive design. This has only become an even more pertinent question as the use of mobile devices to access the web has boomed, meaning that any new or […]

Personalising website content for first-time visitors

By Edward Solomon | 26 March 2020
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You might understandably imagine that the idea of personalising the content on your website for people who are only visiting for the first time can’t possibly be a ‘thing’. After all, what is there to know about someone who has landed on your site right now, who has no prior history with you? As it […]

3 effective ways to keep people on your website

By Edward Solomon | 27 February 2020
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Actually keeping visitors on your website instead of hitting the browser ‘back’ button might not be your number one priority when talking to digital marketing and website design companies in the UK (such as our own). What if you can get people who land on your site’s pages to stick around, though? If you do, […]