As a web development company, a large portion of the work we do is the redesigning and redevelopment of a business' existing website. There may be a number of reasons that you've arrived at to think about a website redesign, but generally they can be narrowed down to these key areas: 1.) Metrics...Read More
Professionally shot photographs and considered cropping, dramatically enhance the appearance of a website, therefore lifting both the credibility and quality of the company in the site visitor’s eyes. It’s for this reason I encourage my clients to organise a professional photo shoot...Read More
8. Clear lines of contact - build credibility Gaining trust and building credibility quickly are an important part of online shopping. If people can see phone numbers, email addresses and/or a physical address they will feel more confident that you are a real business. Having your phone number...Read More
Chances are if you are reading this blog you are a small or medium business owner looking for search engine marketing (SEM) advice. In this case this simple rule applies to you, if Google can read it, it can rank you for it, if it can’t, then it can’t. This simple concept has been a...Read More
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
Shopping cart abandonment occurs when a website visitor arrives at an online store, adds goods to a shopping cart with the intention of purchasing and then fails to checkout for a particular reason(s). This posting looks at practical steps that a website owner can take to reduce the percentage of...Read More
Most people when looking for a website design firm, or evaluating a Web Site Design have a basic understanding of search engine optimisation and know that it is important. Most commercial projects won’t even consider getting off the ground without first getting input from their SEO Company....Read More
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
As our business has grown over the past few years we have seen the expected and welcome result of increased traffic to our sites. The downside to all this activity is the extra pressure it puts on our application, both in terms of increased load on the database, and increased bandwidth. Now this is ...Read More
In the current economic climate many people think they should open an online store or close their physical store to get online. In theory this makes sense and should cost less than bricks and mortar but it is very easy to sink $10-$20K into an online store without much thought and not sell a thing! ...Read More
"My online store with The Web Showroom makes more sales, ranks higher in Google and is easier to update than my old site. I haven’t looked back and can confidently recommend them to build your website."
Peter Boyce, Owner PC Dictation
"I just wanted to touch base and let you know how happy I am with the progress of my website, search engine optimisation and Adwords. Its really kicking into gear now and I'm starting to dominate the market and its all thanks to you guys."
Andrew Wiseman Wiseman Lawyers
“The Web Showroom transformed my website into a lead generating machine. My conversions have gone up by 300% thanks to my customers being able to contact me easily, no matter what page they are on.”