DIY Website or Hire a Professional?
It’s a question that at one time or another we’ve all asked ourselves. Should I go with a DIY website (“they make it look really easy on the demos”) or should I bite the bullet and hire a professional web designer? There are pros and cons to each approach. The first website I ever built […]
Help! There’s a bug in my site!
Every now and then you might look at your business website and realise that something has changed – not a change that you asked your web developer for – but it has changed. What happened? Have you been hacked? What makes a website work Most sites are built using packaged software of one sort or […]
Why Blogging is Good for any Business
If you are a small or medium size business there is no reason why you can’t have great brand recognition and wide brand awareness. One of the most effective ways to build brand awareness, communicate what values your business stands for and who you serve is to provide relevant and useful content to your target […]
Planning for your New Website: 7 steps from conception to completion
While you’re thinking about your new website, what content you will include, where you will source photos (I wrote a helpful post about that here), and how much you need to budget (find out how much it will cost here), trying to work out where to find a good web designer that isn’t going to take your […]
Google – So Much More than Just a Search Engine
If you’ve been on the internet for more than 30 seconds you will know that Google rules the search engine space – their total remit in life is to provide outstanding content for people looking for information. One thing – just one thing: give the people information that is relevant to them. And yes they […]
The One Thing to Do
I don’t know about you but I have been overwhelmed this week by the number of offers of help coming from all corners of this pandemic-ridden world of ours. It’s almost too much to cope with, along with everything else going on around us. I love learning but I can only take on so much […]
Do you need a care plan for your website?
So you’ve spent a good portion of your marketing budget on getting your website done, or updated and now your designer is offering you a maintenance plan, or a care plan or something similar. You thought all the hard work was done and the spending was finished. Are we there yet? Can’t you just set […]