Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) on a Limited Budget
Companies spend thousands of £££s on search engine optimisation. Essentially it is the art of making your website and your web pages as attractive to Google as possible for the keywords you want your website to be found with. It does depend on what industry you’re in and how tough your competition are, but is […]
Why hire a professional web designer?
Before I answer this question, it might be worth defining what I think a professional website designer actually is. I see a professional web designer as someone who builds websites for a living. Knows how to create the website from start to finish, doesn’t just use templates or designs already created and customises them. The […]
10 Questions you should ask a web designer before hiring them
So you’ve either come to the conclusion that your current website is out-dated, falling behind your competitors, or you’re a new business and want a new website. Maybe you’ve used another designer in the past but you’re not 100% happy with the results, or maybe you’ve “had a go” yourself at web designing and realise […]
WordPress – love it or hate it?
When people say sweeping statements to me like, “I love WordPress, I wouldn’t use anything else”, or “I wouldn’t touch WordPress with a barge pole”, I always wonder what experiences they’ve had with WordPress in the past to have come to such a conclusion. WordPress is an open-source content management software, originally designed for blogging, […]
Website backups – who’s backing up your website?
Backing up a website is probably something you, as a website owner, would just presume happens by the web host. Well, yes and no (and you should never presume anything of course!). Let’s start with the yes first. Yes, almost all web hosts backup all their client data and their servers, as a standard procedure […]