filed in Google, Website Design on Aug.04, 2010
While I was checking a few search terms, I found Google ranking on page 4 for ‘Web Design Slough’. I’m pretty sure they’re not getting into the web design business in Slough, but it’s a peculiar search result all the same…
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filed in Website Design on Aug.03, 2010
Many of our new clients, when we’re discussing various styles of websites like to point to other websites that they like the look of. Often the sites are all fairly similar – clean, fresh designs but they never have the ‘wow’ factor. However, it’s possible to have a clean, fresh design that puts a professional [...]
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filed in Marketing, Website Design on Nov.17, 2009
One of my favourite blogs is Red Cardinal and they have written a great study into how to request car insurance quotes online. With some great screenshots, they’ve shown just how awful some of the major websites make the user experience. Check it out over here: http://www.redcardinal.ie/conversion-optimisation/31-08-2009/how-to-smother-your-prospects-and-kill-your-leads
filed in SEO, Website Design on Sep.23, 2009
One of the things we’ve seen time and again is when someone has an old website that hasn’t been updated for months or even years. Â They get a new website with wonderful SEO, they put it live fully expecting it to hit page 1 and it ends up lower down than it was originally! Cue [...]
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filed in Website Design on Aug.04, 2009
This is part of an occasional series looking at some of the poorer websites found on the web today. For the previous post, click here. Today we’re looking at the visual crime that is http://www.msy.com.au/ – “The Name You Can Trust”. I’m not too sure where to start with this one.  It’s a sort of minimalist [...]
filed in Website Design on Jul.06, 2009
This is part of an occasional series looking at some of the poorer websites found on the web today. For the first post, click here. Today, we’re going to look at the navigational nightmare that is http://www.1001pens.com/ OK, it’s not as offensively bright as the last site we looked at but it’s still so bad [...]
filed in Misc, Website Design on Jun.24, 2009
I was speaking with my good friend yesterday, the marketing guru Jim Connolly and we got onto the topic of affiliate programmes. Â Jim was telling me that while affiliate programmes are very common online, they also work just as well offline. Â In fact, they can be even more powerful offline simply because personal recommendations between [...]
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filed in Misc, Website Design on Jun.23, 2009
I’ve been on the web since 1995 and have seen websites evolve from when the default background colour was grey through to today where anything goes. Â My very first website had a highly classy ‘repeating cloud’ background which I thought was fantastic at the time. Â However, looking back, this may not have been the case! [...]
filed in Marketing, Website Design on May.12, 2009
Recently, I was asked if adding a ‘presenter’ would be a good thing to have on a website. For those of you that don’t know what a presenter is (and I must admit, I didn’t know that that’s what they were called!), here’s a link to the company selling them:Â www.mywebpresenters.com. My personal opinion was that [...]
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filed in Google, SEO, Website Design on Jan.23, 2009
One of the first recommendations I’ll make to businesses looking to increase traffic to their website is that they set up a blog. There are a number of reasons for this – it allows you to capture “long tail” searches for a start. Â But (assuming you are diligent enough) it also gives you a way [...]