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Web Design Articles – Explanations, Tips and Checklists
I have written a number of articles on web design to help you understand some of the issues and make the right decisions for your own website. There are explanations, some tips and some checklists plus some FAQs.
10 Common Image Mistakes: Tips for a More Successful website
Images help understanding, break up the text and make it easier for the reader. All excellent reasons for using images BUT they slow websites down and page download speed matters. Understanding how to use images properly will stop you ruining your website with common image mistakes.
What is changing in the crowded world of websites?
Websites are changing rapidly. Are you aware of the changes that have gone on recently and how they affect your website? Is your site keeping up?
New Website Launched: essential things to do next
New website launched: Here is a list of essential post-launch activities that will help make your new website a success.
101 Essential Website Design Checklist: for planning a new site
This website checklist is to help you plan your new site. It will help you prepare the structure and content of your website. It gives you a thorough basis for preparing your thoughts and ideas so you can brief a web designer or build your own site.
What is the Best Choice for DIY Website Builder?
There are many DIY website builders available. This article is to give the inexperienced website DIYer some guidance on making the right choice for their website project.
Image Optimization: how to speed-up sluggish websites?
Unnecessarily large images are often the reason a website is slow. Typically photos are far too large (in terms of height and width) and also too big (in terms of file sizes) to use directly on a website. They need to be optimised.
A Quick DIY Review of Your Website
If you are not sure your website is any good. Here are some things you can look as a basic review of your own site to give you a better idea.
What is responsive design and why do we need it?
Responsive design means the web page responds to the device screen size. Resulting in dynamic layout and appearance changes to suit the screen size of the device viewing the website. So you might get different layouts on each of a desktop, tablet and mobile.
Online shop? Here is an essential Ecommerce Checklist
Thinking of setting up an ecommerce on-line shop then here is an extensive checklist of things you will need to think about.
Tips for Building Trust: Testimonals are powerful and other pointers
Testimonials are powerful tools in building trust plus other tips on trust building on your website
Web Designer Hints and Tips – Make it easy for people to contact you
Build trust – Make it easy for people to contact you. So many sites only post limited contact information – what does this imply to you – perhaps they do not want you to contact them? Why?
Email signatures are marketing opportunities? What is on yours?
Every time you send out an email perhaps that is an opportunity to do some subtle marketing within your email signature.
What could you do with a website? Useful cost/benefit analysis suggestions
A web site is essential to any serious business these days but it is a significant cost so how do you get the maximum benefit out of your investment? For some companies the cost/benefit analysis is clear. For others it is more difficult to find enough tangible benefits to offset the cost.
Thinking about your Branding? – Here are implications of Web Design
A graphic designer has millions of options with print – almost unlimited variations in fonts, colours and layout options. Unfortunately only a tiny fraction of these options are available to web designers – so the web severely restricts your creativity.
Web Design FAQs
Here are some web design questions and answers. They tend to be brief and specific. In some cases they have been extracted from longer articles or pages and where relevant I have referred back to the original article at the end in case you would like to know more. There is a WordPress FAQ which has a long list of Q&As in the one article. There are also FAQ’s about WORKING WITH US mixed in. These tend to answer a long list of questions in the one article covering things like timescales, costs, support and so on.
Poster Images: How to add posters to websites correctly
So what do I mean by Poster Images? Basically any image containing lots of text. Think about typical social media images, infographics, posters, wordclouds… For example, an image advertising an event So an image where all the information required such…
Pop-ups: Why you should avoid them?
Pop-ups are becoming ubiquitous. They are universally hated by users because they are intrusive so what is going on?
Is it easy to add a blog to my website? What are the benefits?
A Blog is an excellent way of improving your website by easily adding extra content. If your website is WordPress, then it is very straight-forward to add a blog as WordPress already has everything built in.
Why Can’t I See the Latest Website Update? Probably Caching
It is most likely a caching issue and will resolve itself very quickly. Cache is a process of saving copies of files with the purpose of speeding up web page response times.
Paste these Google Tags in WordPress: Beware complications to simple requests!
You have a WordPress website. You employ a marketing company to run an AdWords campaign to boast your leads. Back comes the request: “Paste these Google Tags in your website” Beware!
Click Here: Don’t Do It! Why not?
Here is why you should not use just “Click Here” as link text in your web page content: Links should have descriptive content to help everyone understand what comes next when they follow your link.
What do you need to takeover management of a website?
To takeover management of a website user access permissions need to be provided: Domain and Hosting, WordPress Dashboard, Google Analytics and Search Console
Useful to know about WordPress FAQs
Here are a list of questions and answers that are specific to WordPress websites that might help you decide if you want a wordpress site.
Useful to know about eCommerce web design services – FAQs
Here are a variety of common question and answers we get asked related to working with us to create an ecommerce website.
Useful to know about web design services – FAQs
Here are a variety of common question and answers we get asked related to working with us to create a website.
Useful to know about our website hosting – FAQs
We can provide hosting and this FAQ provides a number of questions and answers related to this hosting and related issues.
How much text do I really need on my web pages?
In specific cases it depends on the subject and the competition. As a general guide no less than 300 words but ideally over 500.
Do I need an app for my website?
For most small businesses they are not appropriate. Just ask yourself – why would people download and use my app rather than my website?
How to test if my website is mobile friendly?
These days it is vital for all websites to be mobile friendly (works reasonably on a mobile) or better still mobile optimised (designed for the mobile user first). Do you know how your websites rates?
Where can I get good quality Photos for my website?
Copyright issues mean you cannot use photos and artwork without permission. Searching for “Free images” on google can be rather misleading. Royalty-Free does not mean free to use. There are some sources of images that really are free to use, or free to use subject to certain restrictions but be careful.