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Here’s a spot far from the madding crowd where you can gather your thoughts and take a look at some of our ideas.

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

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 […]

Does your website have that ‘human’ touch?

By Edward Solomon | 20 December 2018
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You might wonder why you have to go out of your way to make your site seem more ‘human’. After all, hasn’t your site been designed and developed by human beings? That’s true, but the fact that we engage with companies so much via a screen today – rather than necessarily pop into brick-and-mortar premises […]

How to speed up your WordPress site painlessly

By Edward Solomon | 31 October 2018
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Did you know that a website that takes longer than three seconds to load often loses half its visitors as a result? That’s probably not a great surprise. After all, we’ve probably all clicked that browser ‘back’ button from time to time due to a website not loading quickly enough. You wouldn’t want one of […]

Building a website for the first time? Here are the basics

By Edward Solomon | 23 August 2018
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It’s easy to underestimate or forget just what a vital frontier of digital marketing for small business a website is. Even companies that don’t do much business through digital media still need an attractive and accessible website with which to engage potential customers or clients. The bad news is that most of us don’t have […]

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? […]

The top 5 things to get right on your SMB website

By Lisa Penn | 26 June 2018
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Thank you for joining me to find out what it takes to build a successful website in a world of 1.5 billion of them. Limiting it to five has been a challenge and you may not agree with the five I have chosen, but they’re my 5 and I’m sticking to them! With each rip, […]

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 […]

Here’s how you can turn the tables to boost organic traffic

By Edward Solomon | 14 June 2018
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The amount of organic traffic your site receives fluctuates all the time. That’s just the nature of the game of search engine optimisation (SEO). If your site has seen a noticeable decline in search traffic over a prolonged period, or for that matter, if it has suddenly dropped dramatically, you have good reason to be […]

Does your website comply with the new GDPR rules?

By Edward Solomon | 25 May 2018
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The chances are that you have been seeing a lot of mentions of the General Data Protection Regulation – or GDPR – in your email inbox and on news sites in recent weeks and months. It was adopted by the European Parliament and Council in April 2016 as a means of better protecting European citizens’ […]

3 reasons not to self-manage your WordPress website

By Edward Solomon | 19 April 2018
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You might have thought a major benefit of having a self-hosted WordPress website is being able to manage much of it yourself. WordPress is certainly a great platform for carrying out your own updates to your site, without the need to contact an external professional for even the smallest alterations. However, it does also help […]