There are a number of reasons why every business owner should invest in web design and online branding for their business. Good online design can add real value to an organisation and actually generate revenue for those who invest.
When we are sent a branded email from an organisation we have not dealt with before and we see that the design is very poor with blurred images and errors on their website due to the browser we are using what isRead More…
September 17th, 2009
September 9th, 2009
Developing a business website can be a challenging process even for experienced individuals. There are a number of factors that can prevent people from considering development a website, all of these can be overcome with the right blend of planning and research.
The top ten barriers preventing development are:
Time – even though it can feel difficult to take time out of working ‘in’ your business, unless you work ‘on’ your business you may not achieve the long-term success you want.Read More…
August 17th, 2009
Having built a number of sites in Wordpress I recently decided to take the plunge with Drupal in order to see how it stood up to the excellent Wordpress platform.
Expecting Drupal to be more advanced that Wordpress I was quite surprised to find that it wasn’t particularly straight forward to set up. I thought it would be worthwhile posting this guide to some of the key areas I had identified as either being confusing or not what I expected.
I haveRead More…
August 14th, 2009
Interesting to read that W3C the body who set web standards have decided to move back to HTML:
http://www.w3.org/News/2009#item119
August 14th, 2009
Sad to read that Microsoft is to support the Internet Explorer 6 browser until 2014. For those reading this who have had some involvement in web design you will know that this browser is far from popular amongst developers and designers due to the high number of well documented bugs it contains.
I am pleased to read that a group of developers has decided to form an action group:
http://www.ie6nomore.com/
Show your support people!
August 13th, 2009
A question asked by many small and medium sized business owners is: “do I need a business website to market my company?”.
A website is not right for every business, although it is recommended that every commercial business should undertake some form of marketing that doesn’t always include the development of a website. However, for the majority of businesses, success on the web can often mean the difference between profit and loss or success and failure.
Important points to consider when assessingRead More…