Posted by mariam.shariff on October 9th, 2009
Your website should be one of your most powerful tools for profitably building your business. With an increasing number of people turning to Internet shopping, it is crucial that your website design translates your business objectives and captures your target audience. Here are some tips to guide you when redesigning an existing website with the [...]
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Posted by mariam.shariff on October 5th, 2009
Guide to setting up a Web Design Project: Some points to consider: Choose: A professional Website Design Company who will spend time understanding your needs – very important! A good copywriter who can appreciate your company ethos and your target audience to turn your website visitors into customers A visually powerful website design that reflects [...]
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Posted by admin on September 30th, 2009
To frame or not to frame? That is the question During the web design process of a new website or ecommerce website, one important design element to decide on is whether or not to use frames. Using frames is displaying two or more HTML pages within a single browser window at one time. If you [...]
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Posted by mariam.shariff on September 7th, 2009
The real benefit of a website is that it’s available to anyone at anytime! In fact it never ceases to amaze me how many people are still browsing in the wee small hours, and how many make purchases even on Christmas Day. Remember that most people use the web to look for information before they [...]
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Posted by dani cass on September 4th, 2009
Navigation: When Hansel and Grethel got lost in the forest, the clever little people had left behind a trail of breadcrumbs to find their way back to where they wanted to be. Like Hansel and Grethel, visitors need to be able to easily find their way through your website to get to the products or information [...]
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Posted by mariam.shariff on July 30th, 2009
So what’s a bounce rate? Many of you will be familiar with this term if you receive any sort of analytics report on your website. Bounce rate is expressed as a percentage, so if your bounce rate is 50% it means that 2 out of every 4 visitors to your site left immediately i.e. your website didn’t give them what [...]
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Posted by mariam.shariff on June 22nd, 2009
As a web design agency based in Leicester we deal with the design and the development of websites as well as promoting these websites online. Websites are a great way to market your business online. Statistics show that more and more people have begun to shop on the Internet these days. So if your business [...]
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Posted by mariam.shariff on April 3rd, 2009
Dynamic URLs vs Static URLs It is almost pointless trying to optimise a website that is predominantly built using Dynamic URLs. URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) are the individual addresses for each web page of your website. Dynamic URLs have all sorts of symbols included in the address, for example: &, ? , / , $ and [...]
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Posted by mariam.shariff on March 30th, 2009
301 Redirect: Oh no, not another Diversion You know how it is when you’re sitting in traffic and you see a diversion sign. It’s not good news is it? Will you still be able to get to your intended destination? How much longer will it take to get there? Redirects are the online equivalent of diversions and [...]
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