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5 Reasons You Need Your Social Media and Your Website to Get Along
Developing the perfect website for your business requires proper utilisation of SEO services. Social media marketing has been described as an ideal way of bringing online traffic to your website. In addition to this, social media links also play other key roles to the development of your personal or business website, as long as it has a responsive accessible website design. Here are 5 reasons you need social media links on your website. 1. Easy... read more »
Do You Really Need a Sign Up Sheet On Your Website?
This is a question that most website owners find themselves asking. Basically, sign up sheets work to capture data from your visitors. If you have a lot of traffic to your site, then you should definitely think about putting one on there, especially if you don’t have a long list of email addresses for direct marketing purposes. Whether you choose to put a sign up sheet on a separate landing page, or on your main... read more »
The Importance Of A Responsive Website
Tablets and smartphones have transformed the typical approach towards user experience and accessible website design. Before the vast proliferation of mobile devices with sophisticated web-browsing abilities, web designers only had one main challenge to keep in mind - keeping an identical feel and look of their sites in the different desktop browsers. These days, interacting with web pages on tablets and smartphones is a whole different story. Factors like screen size, click versus touch, Adobe... read more »
Choose responsive website design, while only 11.8% of websites are using it
It seems that, these days, many people who talk about web design frequently refer to responsive website design and discuss its merits as increasing numbers of people browse online through smartphones and tablets rather than desktop computers. Given this, you could be excused for thinking that the vast majority of popular websites must now use responsive design - and, indeed, a recent Google poll suggests that the proportion could be as high as 82%.... read more »
Google is cracking down on non-responsive websites!
Find out if your website is responsive to stay in the Google rankings!Higher Google rankings mean more traffic to your website, which means more enquiries for your business. This simple equation is often overlooked by businesses. However we understand how crucial it is for your business to be easily accessed online.We received a message from Google's webmaster tools two days ago in reference to one of our older websites that predates responsive design. This... read more »
What could IBM's new Design Language mean for accessible website design?
The American multinational technology corporation IBM is undoubtedly a highly regarded company. In 2012, it was named by Fortune as one of the most successful US firms in terms of both profits and revenue and it has been responsible for many notable inventions, including the ATM, the floppy diskand Watson artificial intelligence. Hence, the world should surely take notice when the company nicknamed Big Blue announces a new product. But does its recently-revealed Design... read more »
Why not use accessible website design to mark the bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo?
What do you know about Waterloo? No, we don't mean the ABBA song or the London railway and tube station; we mean the Battle of Waterloo. This battle took place in what was then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands on 18 June 1815 and saw the Emperor of the French, Napoleon Bonaparte, militarily defeated for the final time before his empire was destroyed and he lived in exile for the rest... read more »
2015: a good year to use responsive accessible design for a website about the Magna Carta
Of course, we have no idea if you are already aware about this, but 2015 marks a crucial anniversary relating to the Magna Carta. "What anniversary? The Magna what?" Okay, so if those are the questions that passed through your head just then, there is clearly a need for some explanation. 2015 is the year of the 800th anniversary of the sealing of the Magna Carta, which is today considered one of history's most... read more »
What the iPad's history suggests about responsive website design
Five years have now passed since Steve Jobs, then the CEO of Apple, publicly unveiled an intriguing new device called the iPad. It seemed like a giant iPhone, except that it couldn't actually be used as a phone. Apple called it a "tablet". The audience at the event where Jobs showed off the iPad were apparently enthusiastic, but observers elsewhere were more skeptical. Initially, the iPad seemingly effortlessly sold in millions and critical voices... read more »
SEO Case Study - The Apple Barn, Chichester
The Apple Barn sells vintage furniture just south of Chichester. Here’s a great case study of how we got them on Google! The store is full of beautiful vintage furniture that Pam has bought in and then lovingly restored in her workshop. It is the sort of place that, once you see it, you are just struck by the quality of the furniture she has to sell. There are bookcases, desks, cupboards, ornate clocks, tables and... read more »