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David Lawrence

David Lawrence is the Managing Director and one of the founders of The Web Showroom. He has been planning and building effective websites since 1997. During this time David has managed teams that have built literally hundreds of websites. In this time he has seen it all, from spectacular online successes to missed opportunities. Experience has taught him that planning and understanding where it is you are going is vital when it comes to creating a website.

  • Is your web design right for your business? by David Lawrence
    in Building a Website, Web Design, Website Advice
     15 May 2012  | 0 Comments
    I often write about the small things that can be done within a website to ensure that it turns the highest number of site visitors into customers (i.e. the conversion rate). In today’s post I thought I would talk about something a lot more general. What happens if your website designer comes...Read More
  • Meet Bronte, the office dog (and trainee website designer). by David Lawrence
    in Web Design, Website Advice, The Web Showroom
     4 May 2012  | 0 Comments
    A few months ago I started bringing my now 12 month old Staffy puppy into the office a couple of times a week. This started as a way of keeping her busy so her natural enthusiasm for life (i.e. destroying my house) would be slightly reduced! Like all puppies she had a tendency to cause havoc when...Read More
  • Website Design: How to Make a Great Sitemap by David Lawrence
    in Search Engines, Web Design, The Web Showroom
     1 May 2012  | 0 Comments
    A sitemap has been an important part of a website for many years now. However, we still find that many clients are confused about exactly what a sitemap is and what it needs to contain to do the best possible job for your site visitors as well as the requirements of your SEO Company. Firstly it is...Read More
  • Why we decided to move our CMS and website hosting to a private cloud by David Lawrence
    in The Web Showroom
     8 Mar 2012  | 0 Comments
    As a website design company, the hardware and software that our content management system (CMS) and website hosting resides on forms a critical part of our business. Up until recently we had a traditional approach to our hosting. Each of our servers represented a dedicated hardware device, we had a ...Read More
  • Making things simpler with our internal IT by David Lawrence
    in The Web Showroom
     1 Mar 2012  | 0 Comments
    We have been operating as a web design and SEO company since 2007. During this time we have experienced significant growth both in terms of the size of the business but also in terms of the number of people sitting in our office making use of our internal IT. As part of our 2011 end of year...Read More
  • Web Design: What do the big sites do really well? by David Lawrence
    in Web Design, Authors
     2 Dec 2011  | 0 Comments
    I want to make a distinction here between the work website designers are doing for big companies and the web design that is being done for the big and successful websites dominating their particular industries. Excuse me… but did your website designer have to make things so busy? In truth...Read More
  • What Can Steve Jobs teach us about web design and creating a successful website? by David Lawrence
    in Building a Website, Web Design, Website Advice
     29 Nov 2011  | 0 Comments
    As a highly successful and creative CEO, Steve Jobs set the benchmark for others to follow throughout his brilliant career. As someone who operates a website design company, the many articles I have read of late had got me thinking. What can website designers learn from Steve Jobs? Being first is...Read More
  • Web Design and Browser Support for Troubleshooting Issues by David Lawrence
    in Building a Website, Web Design, Authors
     30 Oct 2011  | 0 Comments
    As a web design, website design and online marketing company we have solved all manner of strange problems with client websites over the years. We never expect our clients to be I.T. experts but there is a certain amount of information we require when providing support to clients experiencing...Read More
  • Web Design Advice: Building a Great Contact Page by David Lawrence
    in Building a Website, Web Design, Website Advice
     27 Oct 2011  | 0 Comments
    For the majority of our web design projects we stress to our clients that every page on their website should be a contact page. Their phone number, address and often email address should feature on each page. Typically this means showing the phone number towards the top of each page and the address ...Read More
  • The Web Showroom Ranks 30th in 2011 Smart50 by David Lawrence
    in The Web Showroom
     5 Oct 2011  | 1 Comment
    In exciting news, it has just been announced that The Web Showroom has placed 30th in the 2011 Smart50, a list that ranks the fastest growing small medium enterprises (SMEs) in Australia. We travelled down to the award ceremony which was held last Wednesday in Melbourne where a great night was had...Read More
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