Get your images working for you

Images bring website pages to life, but are yours working hard for you in the race to the top of the search engines? There are a number of places to source images: Your own pictures taken with a camera or smart phone. Images you’ve bought from one of the stock photo...

IT Basics for the confused

It’s easy for people to get confused when IT people start throwing around terms like domain name, registrant, name servers, hosting, web development (isn’t that design?) and so on.  So here’s a quick basic explanation of the terms associated with your website: Domain...

Cracking the Code

If you talk to an IT professional you’ll hear a whole host of jargon – and, whilst it’s tempting to tune it out, it’s just as well if you know roughly what they’re talking about. Here are a few terms that you’ll hear when your IT people are talking about your website....

Why do we use contact forms?

Why do we use contact forms on websites instead of just putting an email address on the Contact us page? It’s not simply to demonstrate how clever we developers are! The primary reason is so you don’t get loads of spam with people phishing. If that sounds like...

Is your website mobile friendly?

If you’ve got a website, do you know what it looks like on a smart phone?  If you haven’t got it set up to present on a mobile phone then people who use their phones to visit your website may get very frustrated scrolling to and fro to read the screen. Websites that...