With so much publicity around scams and online fraud, the general public is getting much better at taking precautions online. As a result, website owners are having to raise their game when it comes to ensuring their sites are trustworthy, knowing that failure to protect their customers can lead users to shop elsewhere. And with …
Web technologies are developing all the time, and for anyone who runs a website, it is important to keep abreast of new trends that can help keep their online business at the top of its game. In this post, we’ll look at six development trends, push notifications, progressive web apps, single page apps, chatbots, accelerated …
With Christmas around the corner, you may be busy buying presents for your family and friends. However, if you love your WordPress website, there are a few seasonal gifts that we recommend you give to it, this year. Here are our top seven picks. 1. Remote backups Remote backups top our list of Christmas gifts …
There are lots of businesses that, while providing great services, don’t get many new clients from their website. If this sounds familiar, it’s likely the problem lies not with your business but with your website. In this post, we’ll look at five tweaks you can make to improve your website and make it much more …
Although every business needs to have a unique website, there are certain expectations that they have to conform to, to meet the needs of their visitors and customers. An important part of this is having a standard set of web pages and ensuring that the content on these pages is what most searchers would expect …
Lots of people consider turning their hobbies into a business, either to bring in additional income or as a way to change their career. For many, the key to making this happen is the creation of a website that will bring their products and services to a wider audience and from where they can sell …
Blogs are a well-established feature of the online landscape enabling people and businesses to publish posts on a wide range of topics and to reach out to a broad spectrum of readers. The go-to platform for blogging is WordPress and, in this post, we’ll provide tips and advice on how to create a truly successful …
To be successful online, it’s no longer good enough just to have a web presence. Competition between companies means that the bar has been raised when it comes to website design. Today’s leading sites do more than simply look good, they are functional, optimised and interactive places that engage readers from the get-go. If you …
If you still run a non-responsive website, your online venture has a serious disadvantage. 60% of the UK’s surfing is conducted on mobile devices, mainly smartphones, where non-responsive websites are notoriously difficult to read. Mobile visitors often abandon these sites as soon as they land, which means you could be losing up to 60% of …
Joomla is a great platform for building websites. It’s free to use, well-established and can create professional sites that are highly functional. However, just like those built on other platforms, Joomla sites can be sluggish and have slow loading times. If this is happening to your site, you need to get the issue fixed before …
