Seven steps to successful website design
Building a successful website is both an art and a science. And, like other sorts of design, it needs cooperation and understanding between me, the designer, and you, the client. No matter how sleek and powerful your new website is, it is a failure if you don’t like it or it doesn’t meet your requirements.
Accelerated Mobile Pages – why speed matters
If (like me) you’re obsessed with understanding search engine rankings, you may have heard about Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP). But what is this mysterious AMP? In a nutshell, it’s a way of writing a web page using a slightly modified version of HTML and CSS – HTML-lite, if you will – that is designed to…
Responsive web design
WHAT IS RESPONSIVE WEB DESIGN? Responsive Web Design is a collection of techniques that allow a website to flex and adapt to the size of screen it’s being viewed on. Someone opening your site on a small smartphone will be shown the same site as the person opening it on their laptop but the site…
PayPal announces changes to website integration security
Last year PayPal announced changes to the way that its Instant Payment Notification (IPN) would work. As of 30 September this year (2016) they will no longer accept HTTP for postbacks – they will only accept HTTPS.
Shiremoor Dental Practice – the value of a good content management system
Shiremoor Dental Practice was a full site rewrite. They had had a site for many years but it was written in html and so was very difficult for them to maintain, as well as not being mobile friendly. For example, the dentist featured on the Home page photo of the old site had retired five…
Web hosting and web design questions
I’ve had a couple of customers approach me recently who have been having problems with their sites. In one case, the original designer is no longer in business. In the other, the customer bought the website from a company which is actually just letting the customer rent the website. This company has included items in…
Can you ever ‘stick it’ to Google?
I had a consultation with a new client yesterday who is herself a very creative type, so she has very clear ideas about how she wants her website to look. The site will eventually be used for online selling, so she wants it to be product-led: lots of lovely glossy photos showcasing her products.
Building a maintainable website, or how to destroy the heart of WordPress
I was asked to look at an existing WP website this week (I won’t say which one) with a view to bringing it up to date and improving its SEO. On the face of it, it actually didn’t need much doing to it – one or two tweaks with internal links, maybe add a few…
Monkseaton Dog Spa – your business, your website
How to be a good web designer, tip #1 Last week saw the launch of my latest website, monkseatondogspa.co.uk. Like all my sites, it started with a design consultation between myself and the business owner, Michelle. I showed her a selection of my favourite themes and together we chose one which most closely fitted her…
WordPress security
One of the downsides of WordPress is that, because it’s so popular as a site building tool, it’s also a really popular target for hackers and spammers. It’s never possible to keep a site perfectly secure (let’s face it – if NASA can’t keep their computers secure, what chance do we mortals stand?) but by…
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