Web Design for Bognor Regis Carpentry & Joinery company.
Affordable website for Bognor Regis. Matt from MJ Carpentry & Joinery approached us looking for an affordable way to promote his Bognor Regis based carpentry business. MJ Carpentry already...
View ArticleRedirect non-admin users from wp-admin.
This simple function will redirect any logged in users (apart from admins) back to the homepage if they try to access the wp-admin folder directly. Add the following code your theme’s functions.php...
View ArticleHow to Create a Client Area in WordPress.
Adding a secure area for clients to log in to your wordpress website and access specific pages and/or categories. Increasingly companies are dedicating special areas of their websites specifically for...
View ArticleNew hosting packages available.
We’ve used a lot of different hosting companies over the last couple of years, some by choice, and some because they seem like a match for the new website. Every website has different needs, simple...
View ArticleResponsive wordpress website design.
We’re choosing to use WordPress for more and more clients websites these days. The good thing is that we can rely on wordpress to handle all the dull routine which leaves us more time to concentrate on...
View ArticleBasic Website Usability Guide
Website usability – basic guidelines. It might sound like common sense really; I mean every website needs to be usable right? But there are still a lot of websites that fail basic usability guidelines...
View ArticleWeb Design for Lettings Agents
Chloe from Country and Coastal Lettings approached us looking to get more from her website. The business is solely internet based – so the website really needed to working as hard as possible in...
View ArticleMarketing Driven Web Design
So what do we mean by Marketing Driven? Many websites fail to deliver on their owners’ expectations simply because they’ve been designed without considering their business objectives, their markets and...
View ArticleOn site SEO checklist
On site or on page optimisation is the foundation of any SEO strategy. Just like the foundations of your home it’s important to have a solid base from which to start. On site SEO covers basic elements...
View ArticleSupport area released for our clients
We’ve just released a new area of this website dedicated to providing support articles and advice to our clients. To use the new area scroll to the bottom of the page and click the support link in the...
View ArticleTips for improving your small business website
Consider your small business website. There’s an awful lot of small business websites that are failing to deliver on their owners expectations due to some basic problems. Does your website represent...
View ArticleBasic photo optimisation for websites – Resizing and Cropping
Everyone loves seeing nice photographs on websites. Photographs can help illustrate what your business does, and when it comes to selling products from your website then good quality images are...
View ArticleTest drive a CMS
We love using open source content management systems, the good ones are well documented, pretty secure, flexible and scalable. WordPress has definitely come out on top as our favourite, but we thought...
View ArticleSite Speed and Search Engine Optimisation
Since the beginning Google has been trying to return the most relevant websites to its users. In the spring of 2010 Google announced that it would take a websites’ speed into consideration when...
View ArticleHappy Birthday WordPress
It’s hard to believe that WordPress is ten years old today. WordPress originally started life as a simple blogging platform – but has grown to become the worlds most popular open source content...
View ArticleWhat is an RSS feed?
We’ve been asked this question a couple of times lately, mostly from clients getting onto the web for the first time, so here’s our definition. RSS stands for ‘Rich Site Summary’. An RSS feed delivers...
View ArticleA Brief History of the Golden Ratio
Line segments in the golden ratio What is the Golden Ratio? The Golden Ratio is a ratio which describes a rectangle, whereby the rectangle’s length is approximately one and a half times its width. In...
View ArticleWhy is my website a certain width?
At least once during a website build I usually get asked the question ‘Why is my website a certain width?”. It’s a fair question, and to be honest there are a few reasons why I usually like to set a...
View ArticleMaking custom post types and custom taxonomies in WordPress
By default WordPress comes with a few post types already defined. But the two most obvious ones being pages and posts. The biggest difference between these two post types is down to how they are...
View ArticleContent management systems, open source v bespoke
We’re agnostic when it comes to choosing between open source and bespoke content management systems; both have their strengths and weaknesses. Over the past couple of years we’ve favoured the open...
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