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20 things about Google - Thing 04 Do you like your Local? Google does!

How far would you travel to meet a customer? 5 miles? 10 miles? 100 miles? How about if the local ones could come and see you instead? People like to deal with local businesses, they tend to get a better, more individual service. Google understand this and introduced Google My Business a few years ago. It is a free service so, if you have... read more »

20 things about Google - Thing 03 - Watch Your Language!

In my last blog, I talked about the need to make sure your website is worked well for people with different accessibility needs, as Google has been considering this as a very important ranking factor for at least 3½ years. Another way to look at this would be to think of Google as a person. This person has the power to put you in... read more »

20 things about Google - Thing 02 - Google is blind

Says it all really. We invest thousands of pounds in marketing and promoting our businesses, we will have a gorgeous website built full of stunning images and wait for the business to roll in. We've spent 3k / 5k / 10k / 20k (delete as appropriate), we've paid for a photographer, we're blogging regularly, uploading beautiful / interesting / stunning (delete as appropriate) images... read more »

20 things about Google - Thing 01 - Responsive Design

I’m sure the vast majority of people reading this will know what this is but, even if you do, read on and you might learn something new anyway. In the early days of the Internet, websites tended to be designed to fit on a standard monitor but pretty much nothing else. As mobile technology improved, everyone wanted to use their mobile phones to access the... read more »

20 things about your website and Google in 2017!

I am currently doing a round of speaking engagements about your website and Google in 2017, covering Hampshire, East and West Sussex over the coming months, full details of which can be seen by following this link. It is jam-packed with information: 20 things in under 20 minutes and not a second is wasted! Anyway, I appreciate that not everyone will be able to... read more »

And here are the upcoming dates for the new Google Tour!

The new tour is underway! 3 down, 11 dates to go! Google 2017 – 20 Things You Need To Know! Bring a pen, you will need it, I don't hang about because I have got so much to fit in! You will probably know some of these tips but I guarantee you won't know all of them! DO your buisness a favour and find out... read more »

Last Personal Tour Date this coming Wednesday....

So my personal Tour, talking about the ups and downs over the last 30 years comes to an end this Wednesday 26th April, at the Princess Royal, Farnham, 0800-1000. It's been well received, I do not pull any punches and you would be most welcome to come along and hear it, please follow this link to get yourself booked in. The meeting itself... read more »

Google 2017 – 20 Things You Need To Know Tour

New tour kicks off this week! I’m putting together the final touches for my new tour. My last series of presentations were looking at the last 30 years of my life, a few highs, a few lows and I have been really blessed to have such a good reception each time. People buy from people at the end of the day and I believed that... read more »

Clive Loseby on the radio

Clive Loseby, MD of Access by Design and Access by Design will be interviewed on Express FM at 7pm tonight. They've got an easy player on their website: http://www.expressfm.com/player/ which works great on mobiles as well as on computers.read more »

Grants available to West Sussex businesses right now!

Following my recent blog about this, here are some more links for District Councils in West Sussex and the funding opportunities: Chichester District Council http://ow.ly/EEkT306TVsh (up to £2500) Arun District Council http://ow.ly/WLUy306TUgz (up to £2000) Mid Sussex District Council http://ow.ly/8rd3306TU45 (up to £2000) More will be added as they become available. Access by Design. Award winning web design. Chichester based. Serving Hampshire, West and East Sussex and... read more »

Would you like a grant of up to £2500 towards a new website?

If this sounds too good to be true, it isn't. Chichester District Council are opening their Enabling Grant again. It is a match-funded grant of up to £2500 towards the cost of a new website (or other capital projects) and up to £1500 towards the cost of an apprentice. Applications are open from this Thursday (Dec 1st). Once the budget has gone, that will... read more »

Clive Loseby on Tour!

Well, it's not exactly the legendary tour with my heavy metal band Wraith that I dreamed off when I was 14 but I have started giving a series of presentations called "You always have a choice". I look back over the last 30 years and some of the choices I have made, not all of them good ones! I've done it twice now and... read more »

New case study - Premier Motorhomes

Premier Motor Homes are a completely independent motorhome dealer, based near Chichester, West Sussex. We built a new site for them recently, please follow this link to read the case study!read more »

Two new case studies just published!

We have got two great new Case Stuides on the website. We have always built bespoke sites for our clients and we have never used templates bought from another supplier. Everything we do is in house, to ensure top quality at every stage of the process and we are proud to maintain consistent high standards each time! Lock Stock Inventories is a new client based... read more »

Access by Design on the radio!

Clive Loseby, Managing Director of Access by Design, was interviewed on a local radio station recently. In the interview, Clive explains Access by Design's philosophy and why their websites perform so well with Google. He also explains in some detail why Access by Design's latest offering, Run Your Own Website, is such a ground-breaking product and how it can help small business really grow on... read more »

Bespoke or Off the Shelf?

Our main focus has always been designing and building websites. We have never bought a template, we have always built our own. This ensure robust build quality, top-end accessibility and a website that Google loves. We do not cut corners, we just do it properly, time after time. We developed Run Your Own Website as a... read more »