Roofing website launched.

New Bristol Roofing Company web site has been launched today.
Under instruction from the client Steve Pillinger Roofing, we have created a website along traditional design concepts. The site is informational and aimed at domestic and commercial customers in the Bristol, Bath and South West. The site contains some interesting images of their work and [...]

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Where do you start planning a new web site?

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.

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Link Building

I make efforts to get relevant and established sites to link to me, and I approach some that I think my visitors may be interested in.
Why then do I receive so many pointless mass emails asking imaker to link to them in return for a very poor reciprocal link. Always on the look-out for [...]

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Web design article writing.

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.

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Web Hosting

The web design business is such that I’m being asked more often to recommend web hosting. It’s an area I’ve always stayed away from, partly because it is a very crowded market and partly because I felt my area of expertise lay elsewhere. However, a host I had been with for some years began [...]

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Round up

Another month slipped by and no posts. We at iMaker have been busy over the period since last posting, with new websites ordered, built and launched. We have certainly seen an increase in the number of enquiries coming through so have high hopes for the future. Thanks to all those involved and [...]

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More on spam, or should that be moron spam?

Back in May I posted about the amount of spam I was receiving. Like everyone else I know, they’re receiving an absolute deluge of the stuff particularly over the last couple of months and any defence has become very valuable. My inbox is pretty well taken care of, but the amount of “comment” [...]

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Design, content management and blogging news

The end of November is here already, can’t believe it. It has been an exceptionally busy couple of months. Good number of websites ordered, designed and completed with more coming through regularly and lots of quotes out.

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CSS and new sites

I launched a new site over the weekend for a Florida Villa Rental for a client. Really went back to basics with the layout design using a two column standard layout. This layout has been quite effective in achieving the client’s requirements. There is more work to be done on the overall [...]

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FrontPage and FrontPage Extensions

I posted before about Microsoft withdrawing FrontPage from their product range in this post. You can probably guage from that post that I’m not a great fan of this particular piece of software, but a lot of people are and there are a lot of FrontPage built websites in existence.

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