Can a new website really bring instant results?

The Ultimate Home Improvements website was so out of date that it now didn’t just not bring him business, it lost it for him: when people looked him up on his website they turned away because they wanted a proper builder, not a window fitter. It was desperately in need of a revamp, and what a success it was!

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Migrating a site from Squarespace to WordPress

Squarespace is a great platform if you’re just starting out on your website life, but it has its limitations and sooner or later many Squarespace users start looking for a more flexible and powerful option, and WordPress fits this bill perfectly.

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How big does a website need to be to bring results?

Websites don’t always have to be big to be successful. This is an example of a site with just two pages, but which has all the information prospective clients need, and which has brought the owner the return on her investment many times over.

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Cost effective web design

If you need a big website but you can’t afford big prices, why not give me a call and see if we can collaborate? With Positively Pets, I built the skeleton, and, with a little bit of guidance from me, Jenny added the content.

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Can bookbinding be a fine art?

When I was asked to build this site for a local bookbinder, she was adamant that she was more than just a bookbinder: she was a fine artist.  Her books are truly beautiful, so if we were to reflect the passion she has for books and the written word, then this site needed to be all about the books.

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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.

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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…

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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…

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