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  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

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  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

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  2012 BRW Fast Starters - The Web Showroom wins a place! by James Lawrence
  in Online Marketing, Web Design, The Web Showroom
  26 Apr 2012  | 0 Comments
  We are excited to announce that The Web Showroom has won a place in the 2012 BRW Fast Starters list released today. The BRW Fast Starters is a prestigious annual list from Fairfax media, published by BRW in partnership with the School of Management at RMIT. We placed 56th out of 100. To have just...Read More

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  The importance of communication in a growing company by Hannah Mason
  in The Web Showroom
  28 Mar 2012  | 0 Comments
  Last weekend was my four year anniversary working for The Web Showroom. As one of the first employees in early 2008 I have seen the Web Design business grow from a handful of people to over 25 staff and the Online Marketing department grow from one in 2010 to over 20 with more predicted to join us...Read More

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  Conversion Rate Optimisation by James Lawrence
  in Online Marketing, Building a Website, Web Design, Website Advice, The Web Showroom, Web Development
  23 Mar 2012  | 0 Comments
  8 Ways To Increase Leads From Your Website This article looks at conversion rate optimisation techniques that all brochure ware website owners (eg non-ecommerce) should consider deploying on their website if they wish to improve their conversion rate. These are just some of the methods that our...Read More

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  Meet our Designers by Katie Finnegan
  in The Web Showroom
  15 Mar 2012  | 0 Comments
  The Website Consultants at TWS frequently get asked questions about the experience, design style and personality of the Web Site Designer they may be working with on their project. We are very fortunate that TWS has a strong design team made up of 10 designers from around the world whom have each...Read More

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• What is a prototype? by Gavin Skeels
  in Building a Website, The Web Showroom
  12 Mar 2012  | 0 Comments
  A prototype is a working website that establishes functionality without any design. They are simple black and white website outlines that allow clients to understand functionality before design. Our research shows that having clients approve functionality before design, allow The Web...Read More

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  Why we decided to move our CMS and website hosting to a private cloud by David Lawrence
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  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

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  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

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  Web Development - Spank those bots - Part 2 by Garry Viner
  in Building a Website, Website Advice, The Web Showroom, Web Development
  12 Dec 2011  | 0 Comments
  Last time I talked about how a website development company should attempt to reduce the frequency of unwelcome bots crawling their sites, and explained how in our case we are using Project Honeypot to blacklist suspect IP addresses. So what does it mean for us to mark an IP address as blacklisted?...Read More

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