Year on year website design is increasing in intelligence, functionality and aesthetics. Recent developments have seen the inclusion of chatbots on websites and the emergence of responsive web design. But what will 2019 bring? Here are the top five web design trends to look out for. Thumb-centric design A recent book by Josh Clark, Designing […]
The importance of SEO in web design
If you own a business and your website isn’t SEO optimised then you could be seriously missing out on additional revenue. SEO is one of the most crucial investments that you can make as a business as the investment will produce long-term value for your website that will make your company and brand more visible. […]
How to reduce the bounce rate?
Have you been struggling to get more visitors, improve email signups or get more leads? One reason could be a higher bounce rate. In other words, visitors on your landing page that ‘bounce off’ before you get a chance to convert them. When you see a high bounce rate, it probably means your website needs […]
The Role of a Digital Agency
In the past, people working within the marketing profession would be divided into distinct categories. Now with the emergence of the digital agency, skill sets often crossover between designers and those with technical web-based skills. This allows digital agencies to be able to provide marketing strategy, inspirational and effective design and web-based development for business. […]
The Importance of Great Web Design
I’ve been running a number of pizza shops in the Birmingham and Solihull area for the last 20 years. Over time, my chain of stores has built a reputation for great quality pizzas and fantastic homemade coleslaw, but recently a large national pizza chain had opened nearby that dramatically affected the number of delivery orders […]
Why a Mobile App is necessary for your eCommerce website?
Online shopping is a booming industry and eCommerce sales are at an all time high. Is your eCommerce website bringing you in record sales too, is your website responsive – don’t forget most traffic to an eCommerce site comes from mobile devices. Mobile apps offer more convenience and allow consumers to shop on the go. […]
The Designer’s essential guide to a WordPress website
WordPress has become the most popular and user-friendly CMS available when compared to other content management platforms. However, its popularity does make it a target for hackers and spammers. Most people across the industry know how to secure a page but forget to focus on providing limited files and folder access too. Securing a page […]
Google & Facebook – Artificial Intelligence is changing the digital search experience
Search engines have become an integral part of almost every day life and giants like Google & Microsoft are continuously investing in their search engines to make search results more accurate and convenient for users. Google in particular is continuously adding new features and improving the search algorithms. When filtering results across this wide network, […]
Some free extensions that WooCommerce comes with
We all are aware of the phenomenal growth of eCommerce businesses in the past few years. The open source e-commerce plugin WooCommerce is popular among retail giants and is a free plugin in WordPress. Launched in 2011, thousands of businesses in the UK and throughout the World prefer this plugin over others options because of […]
How to verify Google Apps domain?
We all know that Google Apps are a set of web applications provided by Google that have a package of cloud-based services / collaboration software tools. All of these web applications offer an online alternative to traditional office suites. To use the service provided by Google Apps all we need to have is an internet […]