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Tips for making your website's design more environmentally friendly
We reckon that everyone should be encouraged to be more green in their everyday lives. No, wait, put that tin of green paint back where you found it - we meant 'green' in the sense of 'environmentally friendly'. There are several obvious eco-friendly habits that you can get into, like recycling rubbish, switching off lights when they aren't needed and not leaving televisions on standby. However, you might not have realised that there is... read more »
Website Templates - The Most Well Kept Secret of Web Designers
What are you really paying for? When you look for a website designer you probably look at two main things, the quality of their previous work and the reasonableness of their costs. You might be very impressed with both, their designs look contemporary and visually appealing and they seem to charge a fair rate. But how much did that company really have to do with the design itself? We have the answer for you – very... read more »
Why a responsive website can help people who travel around the world
For many people, travelling to various countries around the globe can be a lot of fun. However, it can also be very demanding. It can be demanding in, for example, how financially expensive – obviously – it is and how much thorough reading and research is necessary, both before and during travel.Naturally, many travellers will look for information that they need by using the Internet – commonly through Internet-ready smartphones rather than relying on... read more »
Access by Design are offering you a free website review!
Why your website may need reviewing… You might be thinking about your marketing strategy for 2015 and we want to take the opportunity to offer you a free website review. We will check firstly if your website is responsive – meaning it is optimised for any screen it is being viewed on – then we will check its accessibility and social media presence. Why is Accessibility important? The Disability Discrimination Act has widely believed to be applicable... read more »
Tips for helping to shorten your website's loading times
Do you have a need for speed? Actually, you probably do even if you don’t currently realise it. That’s because, if you have set up a website for your business in order for it to better compete with other businesses in the same sector, the appeal of that website – and, by extension, the business – could be unnecessarily compromised if it does not load sufficiently quickly.From the web design Sussex-based company Access by... read more »
The frustrations of using a non-responsive website
It is astonishing to think that we are now in 2015, in an age of digital revolution where over 50% of people browsing the web are on a mobile device, yet most websites out there are still do not incorporate responsive design.Smart phones are becoming more and more affordable, with approximately 70% of people in the UK now using one on a daily basis. If people require a service, they no longer have to... read more »
How online health businesses can keep their customers beyond January
January has always seemed a very peculiar month. Coming so soon after the excitement of Christmas, it seems to be a month when not much is particularly happening, but many of us rush to boost our health and fitness. It’s got to be due to all the chocolate we have been eating, right? Whatever the actual reasons, many health businesses with their own websites can unsurprisingly see rises in their hits and business during... read more »
Access by Design is moving to the Cloud!
Why? Our company is growing and the Cloud can provide more security, reliability and more processor power to meet our needs. We have been running our own exclusive, dedicated server for many years and we do not share it with anyone who is not one of our clients. To run dynamic websites requires a lot of power and we have always strived to ensure that our clients’ websites perform well at all times and, with... read more »
Web design trends that we expect to become more popular in 2015
It seems like a good time to judge how the general nature of web design could change in the approaching few months. We should emphasise that we can’t state as fact what will happen in the future; Access by Design is a Chichester web design company, not a team of psychics. Still, we can use what we do know about web design to judge what trends seem especially likely to blossom in popularity in... read more »
Crucial web design tips for breaking into the Japanese market
Japan has often seemed like a bizarre country to many of us in the western world. This is undoubtedly encouraged by the many apparent contradictions of Japan. Is the country wealthy or bankrupt? Embracing the past or the future? The initially difficult-to-understand character of Japan can extend to the manner in which many of it’s citizens perceive websites. This is important to remember if you want to use a website to break into the... read more »