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8 Tips for Better Wesbite Usability

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:05:45 +0000

Good website design is not just about the looks, nor is it just about the techie stuff. Making your website clear and usable is arguably as important as anything else. Here are 8 ways you can make your website more usable. 1. Consistent Navigation Menu I’ll start off with my pet hate. It’s surprising the [...]

10 places to shout about your site

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:25:50 +0000

In the effort to drive more traffic to your website, it’s so easy to get absorbed in the world of online marketing, and completely forget about the opportunities you have in the ‘real world’! As a general rule, wherever you have information about your company, your website address should be there too. That way, if [...]

5 Ways To Analyze Your Current Site

admin — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:07:20 +0000

Picture this. I meet someone who I find has an appallingly bad website. It looks unprofessional, it’s cluttered, there’s no clear sense of purpose, the list goes on. In other words, a perfect opportunity for us as a website design studio. We have one slight problem though. I discover that this appallingly [...]

How much time is this going to take?

admin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:37:58 +0000

Download Blog Planning Template here (MS Excel file) So you’ve decided to start blogging. Or you’ve been told that Google likes regularly updated content on your website. Tis true, and what’s more, users like it too. But before you launch into the blogosphere, do me a favour and stop to think awhile. For this [...]

What are your users looking for?

admin — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:30:18 +0000

I don’t know about you, but I find it frustrating when Google returns a site in the search engine results which looks promising in relation to what I’m searching for – only to find when I get there that it’s not at all what I was looking for. Grrr! Obviously, despite the amazing technological feat [...]

Website Planning: Who are your users?

admin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:01:50 +0000

It is often far too easy, when planning a website, to spend hours and hours thinking about portraying who you are, what you do, what the design should look like… And then forget the people that are going to decide whether your website is a success or not – your users! Two groups of users If you [...]

Website Planning: What’s your goal?

admin — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:11:06 +0000

This is the first of a series of posts based around the idea that before you launch into getting a new website created, it’s a good idea to plan This is often done in conjunction with a website designer, but I thought it wouldn’t go amiss to share some of the tips I use with [...]

Local Customers: Get more of them…

admin — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:10:12 +0000

Google Local Business Listings are relied upon by many businesses as a way of generating more traffic to their website and thereby more enquiries and more business from local customers. For any unfamiliar with the term, Local Business Listings are the search results you see next to a local map when you type in a localised [...]

Are users really lazy?

admin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:02:04 +0000

I’ve said it myself so many times – people browsing the web are lazy; they have short attention spans; don’t you dare give them huge chunks of content without breaking up with headings, bullet points and the like – you’ll scare them off! But something got me thinking. I recently read a recommendation that ‘you [...]

5 key tips for writing website copy

admin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:20:57 +0000

Have you ever had the pleasure of someone coming up to you at a networking event & spending ten minutes boring you to tears with the different services their company provides, telling you how many years experience they have, how many awards they’ve won….? I’m guessing it didn’t enamour them to you. And yet that’s [...]