Great article from Web Designer Depot entitled ‘7 simple ways to build a buzz around your new website’ that makes a lot of sense if you follow their simple steps. Tell a compelling story Every business has a story. How did you get started? What do you do? What’s your value? Read more…
We all have a collection of favourite and useful websites we use for web design and development. Here are a few of mine – hope you find them useful. Design Colour Hex Colour-Hex gives information about colours including colour models (RGB,HSL, HSV and CMYK), Triadic colours, monochromatic colours and analogous Read more…
Colour is essential to a website design; getting your website colour schemes correct will really help make your website stand out. It’s not just website design – the following links could be used for almost anything requiring colour schemes. AI Colour Mudcube Colour Sphere Color Hunter Color Scheme Designer Color Read more…
Getting content displayed prominently within a Google search result is simple – it’s called search engine optimisation, or SEO for short. Google, and other search engines, are very complex in how they work and it’s impossible to fully understand the finite technical details of each one but, that said, they Read more…
In simple terms content is king and content style guides help ensure your website has the right content, in the right place, in the right format for the right audience. Get it right and you’ll keep your website visitors happy but get it wrong and you could be in a Read more…
To quote from their sales blurb, SEMRush analyses Google SERP, and provides detailed information about domains and keywords. You may use it to research your competitors strategies in search marketing. Visit the SEMRush website, enter the URL of a website you’d like to check and immerse yourself in the results.
If you’re looking for free icons then you might find the following resources useful. Flaticons Fontello Google Material Icons Icon Finder
Not just adverts, the Google Creative Sandbox showcases some of the very best and creative marketing campaigns around at the moment. Packed with useful and fascinating information that’s well worth a read. View the Google Creative Sandbox website for some digital delights.
Google Trends is a fascinating tool that allows you to view what people are, and have, been searching for on the Internet. Yes, it’s a bit geeky but very interesting nevertheless! View the Google Trends Visualised website or the Google Trends homepage
It’s fair to say that, on 1 January 2014, we might have had more than a few drops of rain. Just a few. Needless to say many rivers were overflowing and resembled a raging torrent. The River Erme, in Ivybridge (Devon) was no different. Below is a quick video and a Read more…