You know that you need your website to work on a mobile phone right? If you’ve been doing some research you may have come across the term “responsive design”. Now the questions are: What is Responsive Design? And how is it different from a mobile website? And which one is best? The first two question I will try… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Web design
Finding legal images for your website or Blog
I was talking with a client the other day who was asking how to get images for their new website , how big to get them etc. She said I should make the conversation into a blog so.. well… I am. Firstly where NOT to get web images. Google images or just “off the web”. You need to have… Continue Reading
Webdesign, Mobile design, Facebook and Print package: Case study
I thought it might be interesting to show you a real life case study of a branding and marketing package we’ve just done. It includes a main website a mobile website, facebook cover image and profile image as well as some print media. Steph is launching her new business (a Reiki Practice) . She… Continue Reading
7 Key features of a Mobile Web Design
Designing a mobile website has quite different needs to a traditional website that will be viewed on a computer. Just letting your customers smart phones try and handle your normal website leads to frustration and lost opportunities. Here are 6 key features of Web Design for mobile: 1. Big buttons/ Icons and Navigation: When… Continue Reading
Web Design Inspiration – 2 concepts, 85 examples
You need a website, but you don’t know what you want it to look like. SO… for your viewing pleasure a round up of inspiration for different styles of sites curated from around the web. Minimalist Website Design A minimalist design is lots of white space or minimal colours and “flashy things” . Often a lot of white and… Continue Reading
Case Study – Web template and Mobile website
The case of the unfinished website. The Background: Tim & Lilly from Actif bookkeeping came to us stalled on their website. They were working with someone, and liked the design but were having trouble communicating with them, getting anything finalised, and the changes they wanted made. They was pretty disappointed in them to put it mildly. This… Continue Reading
Mobile Marketing – 5 Ways To Reach Your Customers
Your customers are constantly changing how they connect and using new technology. Using technology to reach your customers where they are (on their mobile phone or tablet) is becoming more important by the day. But how? And what do all these new fangled terms even mean? 1. SMS and MMS Marketing. SMS or text marketing has evolved… Continue Reading
5 Ways You Can Help Your Web Designer Work Faster
Have you ever wondered “What can i do to speed up the web building process?” 1. Fill out any briefing forms and give as much information as you can. You probably have a pretty clear idea about how your website should look. Your web designer needs to know exactly what you’re thinking. Even if you’ve… Continue Reading
Website Re-design Case Study
PJ Maynard came to me wanting website re-design for the PJ Maynard Consulting website. What we did to plan PJ’s website re-design: We talked about the aims and objectives. The main things she wanted were: 1. To be able to make updates herself. 2. To refine the job vacancies page and add a carousel 3.… Continue Reading
“Free” websites that cost a bundle. Bad deals and how to spot them.
One of the services I’ve found myself doing a bit of lately is getting people out of tricky situations and bad deals. So here is a quick blog to help spot the bad deal before you get stuck. Dollar a day hosting isn’t “cheap” Think about it, a dollar a day is $365 a year.… Continue Reading