5 Secrets to Creating an Effective Homepage Design

When it comes to website design, the homepage is often the first impression a user has of your company. As such, it's essential that your homepage is designed in a way that reflects your mission and values, while also being engaging and easy to navigate. Here are five...

Keyphrase Order

When you are trying to get a website to rank in the search engines one of the first tasks you need to perform is keyword research, this is where you decide what words or phrases you want your website to rank for. The natural order of language will most likely define...

3 simple ways to promote your website.

A conversation I regularly have with business owners is how they can promote their business online, and while SEO and PPC are fantastic they come at a cost, so here are three simple ways to promote your business today for free. Google My Business (or Google Maps)...

What is scope creep?

Sometimes developers (and others for that matter) will use the phrase scope creep, by this what we mean is that what is being requested has changed significantly from what has been agreed. For example. Lets say we have agreed to build a 5 page website, and the client...

Broken CSS

Following this tweet I thought I would collate these examples of how the same code (CSS) can render completely differently on different browsers.  A problem people often face when building a website.  While usually its a case of items not lining up or not...

10 Favourite Free WordPress Plugins

Here you will find 10 plugins I use frequently when building sites for clients, or when delivering training. Updraft Plus https://wordpress.org/plugins/updraftplus/ WordPress SEO by Yoast https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/ Akismet...

GDPR Cookie Consent

Since GDPR came into force a few weeks ago I've noticed a lot of sites are using the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, which appears at the bottom of this site as well as many others. By default the free version of the plugin does not offer any the ability to customise...