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Text Formatting in a CMS – CSS for Clients

Posted February 23rd, 2010 by Chrisi Reid in Content Management, Usability, Web Design, Website Development

So, you’ve designed and built a visually attractive website, uploaded the client’s content and you’re about to turn it over to the client to maintain themselves. You’ve used the latest in CSS to create a fantastic look and feel for the site, and you intend to add this site to your portfolio as a showpiece. The client is thrilled with how the site looks, and can’t wait to start search engine marketing or pay-per-click campaigns to get the traffic coming in.

Hold on just one moment… how much does your client know about CSS – and how long is the site content going to retain the look and feel they’re so pleased with if they’re not confident with HTML?

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5 Tips for Converting Online Leads

Posted February 23rd, 2010 by Lisa Chirgwin in Web Design

Websites have moved on from being merely online company brochures. While your website should still be your online ’shop window’, open twenty four seven for your customers to visit – it should also be working hard for you to convert visitors into clients.
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E-Commerce Web Design 12 Quick Pointers

Posted February 2nd, 2010 by Stephen Harvey-Franklin in Web Design, Web Standards, Website Development

Here’s a quick list of pointers to consider when designing an e-commerce website

1- If it is an e-commerce website, make sure it looks like one, display credit card signs, show a basket

2- Display your main offers and products on the home page, don’t clutter the home page with your life story or mission statement.

3- Don’t waste valuable space and prime search engine optimisation with “Welcome to Our Site”

4- Always have a phone number clearly displayed so that people can contact you, don’t hide it on the contact page or in teh footer

5- Ensure that prices and offers and taxes are clear

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The Importance of Good Web Design

Posted January 13th, 2010 by Lisa Chirgwin in Web Design

Designing a website that will attract and appeal to your ideal customer requires the successful execution of several factors. You not only have to get the attention of your target audience, but you also have to grab the attention of the major search engines – or you will be missing out on a rich source of traffic.
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What Should Come First….Web Design or SEO

Posted December 29th, 2009 by Chris Mann in Online Marketing, Search Engine Optimisation, Web Design

This is a key question in the early planning stages of any website. Depending on who you ask will provide you with very different answers. A web designer will argue in the majority of cases that the design should always come first. In defence of all web designers if a website is not pleasing to the eye and does not capture the visitor’s attention then they are likely to almost instantly bounce off the website without browsing deeper into the content. However an important question to answer at this point is how did the visitor reach the website in the first place? (more…)

CSS 2: Making the Most of Web Development Tools

Posted December 23rd, 2009 by Chrisi Reid in Content Management, Miscellaneous, Web Design, Web Standards, Website Development

Some time back, my colleague Dan posted a blog about CSS 3, and all of the wonderful new ways web design will change once browsers catch up to the new standards. Many of the new techniques and tools do work in certain browsers now, but what can a web development team do to create pages that have some of the look and feel provided by CSS 3 for browsers like Internet Explorer that don’t support it?

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The Future of the Web: Brief intro to HTML 5

Posted November 27th, 2009 by Neil Stewart in Usability, Web Design, Website Development

Some designers will embrace its arrival, others will simply dismiss its existence but the fact of the matter is that new technology in the web arena is becoming ever more apparent. “It’s too far in the future” some may scream, but either way we have all heard the hype around the next best thing in web development HTML 5.

Although it’s a big leap in what many designers are used to, it is something that all designers must accept will happen in the future. So why not learn the ins and outs of mark up such as HTML 5? Knowing something of this kind will not hinder your progress as a designer, simply give you the upper hand when “d day “ does come around and XHTML is something of the past. (more…)

CSS 3: New Tools For Web Designers

Posted November 25th, 2009 by Daniel Fielding in Usability, Web Design, Web Standards, Website Development

CSS is used in web design to define the way your pages are presented. It’s a styling language first standardised in 1996 as a way to give designers more power and reduce the complexity of HTML documents. Before its creation, all aspects of page appearance such as colours, sizes, borders and spacing were part of the HTML mark-up. This meant that even simple pages quickly became a large mess of code and the same statements had to be repeated over and over throughout a website.

The idea behind CSS is that it separates the presentational code from the content, so that HTML documents can remain clean and simple with multiple documents all pulling their styles from a single CSS file. This allows pages to be built quicker, with less repetition, and makes any future maintenance or design changes much easier. (more…)

Smarter and faster web design

Posted November 18th, 2009 by Neil Stewart in Web Design, Website Development

Many designers believe the only way to reach your goals is to work harder and longer on a given project. This, to many, is paramount although to others simply working “smarter” usually has a more satisfying result in the long run, whether this is simply choosing the right tools or the best plan of attack when looking at a new project. Many designers get clouded by the curse of diving straight into a project, especially if the brief in hand is ideal to your set skills. This blog will hopefully enlighten you to the proper and decent forms of planning a successful, fast and at times enjoyable project. (more…)

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Archive for the ‘Web Design’ Category

Posted February 23rd, 2010 by Chrisi Reid in Content Management, Usability, Web Design, Website Development

Posted February 23rd, 2010 by Lisa Chirgwin in Web Design

Posted February 2nd, 2010 by Stephen Harvey-Franklin in Web Design, Web Standards, Website Development

Here’s a quick list of pointers to consider when designing an e-commerce website

Posted February 1st, 2010 by Stephen Harvey-Franklin in Internet Consultancy, Online Marketing, Search Engine Optimisation, Web Design

E-commerce Websites and Best Practice

Posted January 13th, 2010 by Lisa Chirgwin in Web Design

Posted December 29th, 2009 by Chris Mann in Online Marketing, Search Engine Optimisation, Web Design

Posted December 23rd, 2009 by Chrisi Reid in Content Management, Miscellaneous, Web Design, Web Standards, Website Development

Posted November 27th, 2009 by Neil Stewart in Usability, Web Design, Website Development

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