I’m really proud of this online fashion shop.  It has taken a while to get there but finally launched last week.   Get over there and buy, buy buy!  Good luck Amanda.

We launched a new website yesterday for a charming couple, John and Carole, who breed alpacas at their farm in Siston in Bristol.  The site is not yet completed, changes are still ongoing and more content is coming in.  We are all hoping that given the impetus of a new site we can speed up [...]

When I design a new site that has a content management system (cms), the owners seem to have most trouble with images. The problems they have are:

The images are straight from their camera so are too big to fit the desired format and/or eat away at their bandwidth.
The image needs cropping.
The image needs some other [...]

For a recent web design project I was looking for a list of UK counties. No problem, I thought, the internet is a wonderful place, bound to find something.
How wrong can you be? Lots of lists, but none of them complete and most out of date. Spent far too long looking and eventually had to [...]

Techniques to follow for on page search engine optimisation
Domain names:

It seems that having a domain name with a keyword may have a benefit.

File Names / File Paths / URLs:

As with Domain name used with keywords may have a benefit.

Header tags:

Page titles are one of the more influential things to use for SEO and should contain [...]

We are delighted to offer a new service, an extremely cost effective and affordable web design service utilising Wordpress as a cms.
Our new dedicated website www.webdesignfirst.co.uk will offer the service with an introductory offer of a site + .co.uk domain name + a years hosting.
This new service will provide a “cheaper” way of getting on [...]

I must have had my head in the sand to have missed a great post on this subject from Megan McDermott.
For a while I’ve been looking at my blog title tags and thinking there must be a better way. Then Megan’s post just explained it all simply and elegantly.
Thanks very much!

Just a quick heads up that we now have a web jargon buster / glossary of web design terms page now on the main site. Inevitably it’ll be added to, these things are never finished. Hope it proves useful.

Some of my web design clients ask this question when they are thinking about the content that will go into their pages.
A little while back I wrote a 6 step guide titled “The First 6 Steps Towards Designing A Web Site” which ezinearticles.com published.
Hope it helps anyone facing a similar problem.

I have been writing the odd article about subjects that don’t really fit anywhere into this blog, yet still web design related. These articles have received reasonable circulation and seem to have an affect on this websites overall ranking, however, that wasn’t really the point.