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

Can a minimalist design really help your site?

By Edward Solomon | 7 February 2019
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‘Less is more’ is probably the best advice anyone can give when it comes to design. I’ve also heard someone say ‘websites age in dog years’. Certainly, many an online marketing agency in the UK has received a request to design the kind of minimalist website that seems to be all the rage today. There […]

How can you help your web designer to help you?

By Edward Solomon | 10 January 2019
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Hiring a website designer or getting in touch with a web design firm is just the first step in a long process to create a website, but when the time comes for the actual project, you’ll probably be asked for your ideas about what you do or don’t want from your final site design. Do […]

How to strike the right time/money balance like a boss

By Edward Solomon | 12 July 2018
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In an age in which there seem to be so many advertisements for website platforms flying around – that supposedly let you put together the perfect website in under an hour – you may understandably be wondering where the catch is. Which is the right platform for you? Wix, Weebly, Squarespace, WordPress.com or self-hosted WordPress? […]

How to build your brand identity through web design

By Kayleigh Alexandra | 20 June 2018
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Brand identity isn’t just about a catchy slogan or a marquee product. It’s about marking everything about your business in a way that makes it as easy as possible for people to tell when they’re dealing with you. That’s what makes you memorable in the long run. And while there are many ways to work […]

5 signs your business website really needs a redesign

By Audrey Robinson | 5 April 2018
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You might take the view that if something isn’t broken, you shouldn’t fix it. Unfortunately, websites don’t work that way. It may load and it may work, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that your website is great. Your website needs to change and grow with your business. If a lot has been happening in other […]

Are you making these mistakes with your website design?

By Edward Solomon | 8 March 2018
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You’d have thought that these days, pretty much anyone could spot a bad website – and they can, if the things that make that website bad are obvious. You know the things we’re talking about: the dated animations, the wacky fonts and the cluttered layouts, among so many other blatant blunders. However, the very fact […]

5 things every successful business website needs to get right

By Edward Solomon | 8 February 2018
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You might think you know what glitzy features will serve your target customers best and make your website stand out from the pack, but have you even got the basics right? Here are five of those basics that will account for the bulk of your website’s success or failure. You might want to talk them […]

3 simple reasons you should care about website buttons

By Edward Solomon | 11 January 2018
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Of all things that inform small business website design, you might not think the buttons on your website are worth much attention. Most of us can probably barely imagine a website without a button, though, so it’s something that’s well worth thinking about. Let’s face it, buttons haven’t gone out of fashion. They continue to […]

What role does colour play in the design of your website?

By Edward Solomon | 8 June 2017
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Colour isn’t an aspect of business website design that necessarily gets mentioned all that much, which might be surprising to some of us. After all, the intelligent use of the most impactful shades has long been central to marketing. The reality is that no matter how important the likes of your website’s images, body copy […]

5 characteristics of the most timeless designs

By Edward Solomon | 16 March 2017
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When you’re looking for a web design company, it’s understandable that you will want to talk to them about many of the developments most pertinent to 2017 – perhaps the emergence of ‘mobile-first’ web design, or the increasing use of rich animations and dynamic typography. However, there are also certain things that make a design […]