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Stay Ahead of the Game: Refine Your Website and Save Money

January 15, 2024November 4, 2019 by Kim

We all understand that a change is as good as a rest. It’s why we switch up our wardrobe each season, or give the garden shed a new coat of paint. Keeping things fresh helps make them better.

UX In Contact Forms: Essentials To Turn Leads Into Conversions

January 15, 2024September 19, 2019 by Kim

A contact form can seem a simple thing: a means of enabling users to send to an organisation a query or question. The truth, however, is that they are more complex than that – if their full potential is to be realised. You need to get the user experience – or UX – right. Contact … Read more

When Did You Last Ask Someone Impartial for Website Feedback?

January 15, 2024September 19, 2019 by Kim

Can you see the wood for the trees? Are you being a bit short-sighted? Perhaps you’re experiencing tunnel vision? These clichés all exist to describe the familiar scenario in which a person is too close to something to understand it fully. This is a risk in any project, and web design is no different: anyone … Read more

What are you paying for with a new website?

January 15, 2024August 20, 2019 by Kim

So you want a new website. Good choice! We think websites are good things, and new ones almost always offer a lot of opportunities to a business for improving and enhancing how they communicate with customers. The next step for our clients is almost always to figure out how much that exciting new website is … Read more

Why WordPress is great for SEO

March 12, 2024August 19, 2019 by Kim

According to W3techs, WordPress powers 60% of all the websites (with a known content management system) on the internet. A service doesn’t reach that kind of market share on usability and good advertising alone. WordPress works, and it works well. We’re going to focus on the SEO benefits that come with using WordPress, and why … Read more

How to Write a High-Quality Web Design Brief

January 15, 2024August 14, 2019 by Kim

A project is like a journey. Each has a destination, and the aim is to reach that place on time and on budget. This never happens by accident. A well written web brief is how to avoid detours, accidents and traffic jams. It will save time – and result in clearer quotes! When setting out … Read more

Why UX Is Important for Your Website

January 15, 2024August 5, 2019 by Kim

News flash for those not in the know: UX is not the latest Star Wars droid (who can improve on BB-8 anyway?). In web design, UX – or user experience – is all about usability. It provides a focus on function, not just form. How easy is your site to use? How relevant is its content? … Read more

Branding. What’s the true cost of getting it wrong?

March 12, 2024December 6, 2016 by Kim

Branding. It’s a word that all too often gets confused with things such as a logo design, colour palettes, brochure design or, well, just plain old pretty pictures. Yet branding, in actuality, is far more than any of these single elements. Sure, it can be said to involve all of them – but at its most fundamental level, branding is what … Read more

From first time blog visitor to firm fan – Seven tips

March 12, 2024November 30, 2016 by Kim

Let’s face it, driving traffic to your blog can be challenging, demanding much time, effort and, if you invest in PPC, money. Once your visitors have arrived, you’ll want to make the most out of every first-time reader and (ideally) ensure that they come back for more. Here are seven tips to ensure you achieve … Read more

Most of your website visitors don’t trust you. Here’s how to turn it around.

March 12, 2024October 14, 2016 by Kim

Website visitors are seriously tricky customers – filled with mistrust and arriving with a protective defence that’s been built from years of digital marketing messages being thrust at them from every angle. Add to this the fact that the average website visitor settles on a first impression of your company within a seemingly impossible time … Read more

Advanced UI Animations

March 12, 2024September 13, 2016 by Kim

UI Animations make the web experience more interesting, interactive and entertaining and with the use of modern web technologies are being used more and more. HTML5 has meant that animations can now be easily seen across all devices and can be scaled to any screen.

Improve your website layout!

January 15, 2024May 30, 2012 by Kim

White Space Matters! White space refers to the area within a pages layout that is left empty. It is the space between graphics, margins or text and is also referred to as negative space. White space should not be considered merely ‘blank’ space — it is an important element of design which enables the objects in it … Read more

Stay Ahead of the Game: Refine Your Website and Save Money

UX In Contact Forms: Essentials To Turn Leads Into Conversions

When Did You Last Ask Someone Impartial for Website Feedback?

What are you paying for with a new website?

Why WordPress is great for SEO

How to Write a High-Quality Web Design Brief

Why UX Is Important for Your Website

Branding. What’s the true cost of getting it wrong?

From first time blog visitor to firm fan – Seven tips

Most of your website visitors don’t trust you. Here’s how to turn it around.

Advanced UI Animations

Improve your website layout!

Straight talking designers. For no-nonsense marketers.

Birmingham HQ

Straight talking designers. For no-nonsense marketers.

Birmingham HQ

Straight talking designers. For no-nonsense marketers.

Birmingham HQ

Straight talking designers. For no-nonsense marketers.

Birmingham HQ

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