I always prided myself on being able to see where my industry (design/web) was going. Then over a period of about six months, I became confused and decided I needed out of owning a business in the sector. Two years later – they are doing fine without me with a more defined business strategy and [...]
Continue Reading →Checking your online processes
When’s the last time you tried to complete the call-to-action on your website? Last week, I put my new beauty shop website live which carries direct integration into Worldpay and Paypal. It worked when testing so why try again when it goes live right? Wrong. The Paypal was fine, the Worldpay was broken. I only [...]
Continue Reading →Treating your website like an asset
I’ve often sat and watched one of the Sarah Beeny style shows on TV where she tries to guide a person through a property development project. Ultimately, it’s about turning a profit, but, more often than not, one of the participants will get emotionally involved in a detail such as fixtures and fittings. They forget [...]
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The changing landscape of the web design industry
I’ve been involved with playing on the web since my first 9,600 modem connection back in 1995. Over the subsequent 14 years I have seen a massive shift in the way websites are created and what a client perceives as important when they spend their marketing budget. In the early days, it was a case [...]
Continue Reading →Broken Website Creating Enquiries
I’m in two minds about this one – a website with a broken quote engine. The fact that it doesn’t work is actually creating sales opportunities and the guys that own it, are happy to keep it like this for the time being. A huge factor, it’s worth pointing out, is the audience for the [...]
Continue Reading →2009 – The year of rapid deployment
I have been in the design industry (in one way or another) for 20 years in 2009 and I have obviously noticed massive change in the way stuff is produced and the type of work clients ask for. Nine times out of ten, projects took (and still take) much longer than they needed too, based [...]
Continue Reading →PDFs and lazy web authors
Have you ever being looking for some information on a website, you click and link and your PDF open dialogue comes up? No word of a warning, just a simple link like most of the other links of the site but it links to a PDF document instead of another web page. This really annoys [...]
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Basingstoke Business update
I may have mentioned before that I run a local Basingstoke Business News website. Well, thanks to some wicked colleagues, this has been upgraded to be a more generic Basingstoke Business website on a new domain. It’s a really good website, if I do say myself, and I am looking forward to adding more generic [...]
Continue Reading →Trading websites in Basingstoke
Just finished a small project for a local fencing company in Basingstoke. He is doing me some work, I did him a website. I say I did it, my friend Steve Clark designed and built it from my strategy document. Now it’s live, I am now going in and tidying up the content, adding some [...]
Continue Reading →Deal making websites
I am currently in Cyprus at the villa and while discussing how I go about selling rental weeks through my website with my mother-in-law, we got to talking about deal making information and why it is important to optimize accordingly. Imagine that moment, when a person (or a couple) is looking at the choices available [...]
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