Category: Web Design

Are free website builds on Facebook a scam?

Posted on 1 February 2022

If you’re part of local groups you may have seen a script just like this one: “Would anyone be interested in a free build and design of a professional website? We are looking to increase our portfolio within this area so you will only be required to cover your own domain and hosting. Private message …Read more.

How to start VSCode Automatically when you sign into Windows 11

Posted on 20 November 2021

Windows 11 is the operating system we currently use. VSCode or Visual Studio code is our chosen IDE. If you use VSCode often enough, you might be thinking of just setting it up to open automatically… how do you go about this in Windows 11? The Solution The easiest way is to add VSCode to …Read more.

Building your own website in Wix vs hiring a WordPress developer

Posted on 23 January 2021

With services like Wix making builidng websites easier the amount of interest in these types of services has grown massively over the years. Just how good is Wix? Can it beat WordPress for the typical small business? Would we ever build a website using Wix? Keep reading to find out more! A bit of history …Read more.

5 Reasons Why We Love WordPress

Posted on 15 December 2020

When we started building websites, we didn’t have much time for WordPress. 100% of our website builds were 100% bespoke. One problem we kept coming to was that… developing bespoke features comes at a price. Plugins There are over 50,000 plugins for WordPress. Free, paid, free with paid extras. That’s 50,000 plugins that could possibly …Read more.

How to optimise your pictures for your website

Posted on 6 August 2020

On many occasions we have seen websites with poor loading times. Sometimes this is down to poor server performance, poor and big javascript files. Other times it’s simply down to images not being optimised. There are ways of making sure your images are right for the web! Sizing If you use WordPress or a CMS …Read more.

2020 Website Features

Posted on 20 December 2019

With the new year fast approaching and all those fresh ideas coming up here and there. Here is what features we expect will come with 2020. At least what we hope we may see in the New Year. Dark and Light mode It’s getting more and more common place, form Windows to YouTube. Dark mode …Read more.

How to get your site on Google and Bing in the first place…

Posted on 31 October 2018

So you’ve just got a new website? That’s great but have you checked that your web designer/developer published your site on search engines like Google and Bing? If not, have you done this yourself yet? This be #1 on the to-do list if not. Google To get your site on Google, your best solution is …Read more.

WYSIWYG vs custom code design

Posted on 29 July 2018

For as long as web pages have been around, people have been trying to make website design easier and easier. There’s so many different IDE’s and WYSIWYG software around, it’s hard to know the right and wrong ways of building a website. Not just building a website though but building a website; that is valid …Read more.

Bespoke CMS or generic CMS

Posted on 19 February 2018

We see it a lot… follow a link and slow but why? The web page isn’t that complex, the images aren’t big and there isn’t any big full-screen video backgrounds. What could explain this bizarre situation? Poor server? Broadband provider is restricting the connection? No… it’s just another site that has unnecessarily used a heavily …Read more.

Adaptive Vs Responsive Web Design

Posted on 15 December 2017

What is adaptive design? What is responsive design? Both of these methods can be used to build a website that works on both your laptop and your smart phone. There may even be times when both can work together but either way the end result should be pretty similar. Especially as far as the end …Read more.