Website Advice

• Website Redesign by Gavin Skeels
  in Web Design, Website Advice
  4 Jan 2012  | 0 Comments
  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

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• Stock photography: Tips to help find great photography for your Website Designer using istock (PART 1) by Katie Finnegan
  in Website Advice
  21 Dec 2011  | 0 Comments
  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

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• Top 15 tips for a successful online store - Part Two by Hannah Mason
  in Building a Website, Web Design, Website Advice
  16 Dec 2011  | 0 Comments
  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

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• Utilising SEO in your Website Design Real-estate by Josh Khoddami
  in Online Marketing, Web Design, Website Advice
  14 Dec 2011  | 0 Comments
  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

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• Web Development - Spank those bots - Part 2 by Garry Viner
  in Building a Website, Website Advice, The Web Showroom
  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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• Shopping Cart Abandonment: 13 Ways To Reduce E-Commerce Abandonment Rates by James Lawrence
  in Building a Website, Website Advice
  5 Dec 2011  | 0 Comments
  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

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• Search Engine Optimisation versus Conversion Optimisation by Joel White
  in Building a Website, Search Engines, Web Design, Website Advice
  29 Nov 2011  | 0 Comments
  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

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• 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

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• Web Development - Spank those bots - Part 1 by Garry Viner
  in Building a Website, Website Advice, The Web Showroom
  28 Nov 2011  | 0 Comments
  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

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• Top 15 tips for a successful online store - Part One by Hannah Mason
  in Building a Website, Web Design, Website Advice
  20 Nov 2011  | 0 Comments
  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

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