Inside Design 4

So, you have a sparkly new company website with plenty of compelling content, beautiful images and fabulous design. It tells your story, showcases your services and makes your products look irresistible. That’s fantastic – now all you need is visitors and lots of them…  Read more

Branding used to be about consistency and repetition. Simple logos and taglines were all-important and companies were in control of how their message and brand was portrayed.

But these days, because there are so many platforms, so much social reach, so much more potential for brand communication from a company and its followers, there is an increased need for brand flexibility.  Read more

Finding time to stay up-to-date with current trends in web design can be a challenge, but is of utmost importance in the world of technology today.

Although technologies themselves don’t change quickly – because they take a long time to be developed and tested – the same cannot be said for the application of existing technologies, which evolve at a rapid pace in all kinds of new ways.  Read more

Landing pages are web pages designed with only one goal – to turn visitors into conversions.

Whether that conversion is a newsletter sign-up, a direct purchase or the booking of a face-to-face appointment, a landing page should focus on that task and nothing else.  Read more

With a limited amount of hours in a day, spending time on social media can be an ongoing challenge for business owners.

Here is a list of time-saving tips to help you plan, deliver and analyse your social strategy in less time.

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If your website is to be successful in terms of converting visitors into clients or customers, the need to attract the right people in the first place is crucial. If your bounce rate is high, if you have a low level of returning visitors, or if you have few goal conversions, this is probably an area that needs some attention.  Read more

It’s fair to say that Google+ didn’t start off great.

Although many people had a G+ account (after all, you need one to access Gmail and so on), very few people were active users, and nobody seemed to really understand what it could offer beyond what Facebook and Twitter were already doing. But roll on another two years and the story has changed vastly.  Read more

Whether you’re including user-generated content in your current website, or just curious as to how it might increase your visitors’ engagement and your brand recognition, there’s no doubt that innovative use of user-generated content (UGC) is an intriguing idea.

In this blog post, we focus on six facts to get you thinking about the possibilities.  Read more

In a world of high-speed internet connectivity and content overload, where information is available at the click of a mouse and users are increasingly time-pressured, designing a homepage can be daunting.

With only a few seconds to capture the attention of a visitor's instant gratification, how can you be sure of producing a homepage that users will latch onto?  Read more

As well as carrying out an audit of your own site every once in a while, it’s important to see how you’re faring against the competition. In this blog post, we explain which areas you should be looking at when carrying out a website comparison study.  Read more