Clients
Web Design for Care Home in Poole
The Links Home, a care home based in Broadstone Poole, (a stones through from Bournemouth) got in touch with us back in the summer to look at redesigning their website. The owners (PrimeTower Properties) completely recognised that their current web presence wasn’t up to scratch and portraying their care home, which had recently been refurbished, […]
Code
How we optimised load time on an image heavy WordPress website
I’m sure most of you have experienced this before.. You visit a beautiful website with loads of nice images, only for the website to load REALLY slowly. This can be massively frustrating for both the developer and also the user, as slow websites will most definitely lead to users leaving your website prematurely. We encountered exactly this problem with one of the […]
Marketing
Why Google Plus is great for local business
A lot of local business owners that I speak to are often really sceptical about social networks. Just like you they don’t have the time, there’s other more important things they need to focus on. But Google+ is definitely the one social network that I would always recommend having a business presence on. Why is […]
Branding
Branding Design: 6 signs it’s time to redesign your brand
Firstly, let’s start by finding out exactly what “branding” is, because it’s much more than just a logo. Branding is the creation of a defined name, a distinguishing image and a promise to your customers of what they can expect from your business, your products and your services. It conveys the essence of who you […]
E-commerce
The ULTIMATE Guide to Hiring an Ecommerce Web Design Company
Ecommerce is hotter now than ever before – the number of customers going online to shop is growing and is set to continue growing year-on-year. The IMRG (a body that represents the UK’s online retailers), reported that: …Britons spent in excess of £68 billion on the internet last year, an increase of £10 billion on […]
Design
8 Web Design Techniques that Drastically Improve User Engagement
Modern web design is so much more than creating something “that looks nice”. A web design has got to be engaging and hold the user’s interest and guide them in carrying out a certain action, or series of actions for that matter. Fundamental design techniques such as balance, hierarchy, colour, contrast, form, shape, unity/harmony etc help us achieve this […]
Clients
Case Study: Web Design for Online Radio Station – Diva Radio
Today we’ve got another new project to tell you about – our recent great project for new client Diva Radio. Diva found us as they’d heard about our previously successful web design projects for LeCandyLab and Hushh Radio and were keen to work with us to see if we could refresh their website and online radio player. Website Planning/Research Our […]
General
WordPress Maintenance & Security
Firstly, why WordPress? We’re passionate about building WordPress websites, after all it’s an incredibly user-friendly and very customisable platform with very few limitations in terms of design and functionality. We’ve also got over 10 years experience using it. It’s for this reason that it’s our platform of choice and why every tailor-made website that we […]
Clients
Case Study: Ecommerce Web Design for Beauty Salon
We recently completed a large ecommerce project for Skinmaze; a traditional beauty salon and online retailer of beauty products, based in Westbourne Dorset. This is a case study about the ecommerce web design and web development that we carried out for Skinmaze, and will be perfect if you want to better understand our process when we come to […]