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The Importance Of Colour Schemes On Business Websites
November 30, 2011 at 2:34 pm
During the web design process, one of the most important aspects to consider is the colour scheme which will run throughout your business website. Colour scheme is one of the strongest aspects of your website’s branding and as such it is of paramount importance that you get it right.
A colour scheme is the bare bones of your web design. Every other aspect of your branding will be built around the colours you choose to form your design. Thus, it is important that you choose colours that complement each other, rather than simply picking two or three colours at random. (Read more…)
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Why A WordPress Blog Is Good For Your Business Website
October 28, 2011 at 7:24 pm
It is no longer enough for a business to simply sell products to its customers. If a customer visits your business website once, that simply isn’t enough. It is imperative that you have some kind of hook that can bring customers back to your website for a return visit. This hook can also help with the search engine optimisation of your business website.
Both visitors to your business website and search engine crawlers like Googlebot love it when you have regularly updated content. The most beneficial way to keep a regular stream of content on your website is to write a blog related to the business you are in and a WordPress system can make this task easy. (Read more…)
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Ecommerce: Moving Your Sales To The Online Marketplace
October 23, 2011 at 8:46 pm
A recent survey by the Office For National Statistics (ONS) showed that approximately £1 in every £10 spent in this country is spent online.1 Increasingly, Britons are choosing to spend their money buying the products and services they need from the internet rather than braving the ice cold free-for-all of high street shopping.
This evolution of retail raises a conundrum for small businesses. They now have to decide whether they want to splash the cash on a costly high street outlet or simply to run their sales via ecommerce solutions on their business website. (Read more…)
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Steve Jobs: The Man Behind The Macs
October 7, 2011 at 5:06 pm
On Wednesday 5th October 2011, the world lost one of its most iconic figures as the Apple co-founder Steve Jobs died of pancreatic cancer at the age of only 56 years old. Steve Jobs’ death leaves a massive void in the technology landscape and his entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation will be sorely missed. (Read more…)
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Why A Business Website Is Essential For Young Firms
September 29, 2011 at 9:02 am
Imagine you’ve just started a business. You’ve got an excellent range of products and you’re ready to start selling them to the masses. However, you need to publicise your new business to customers before you can start making money. There is no need to shell out vast sums of money on advertising campaigns, when all you need to bring in the customers is a strong business website. (Read more…)
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10 Very Useful CSS Snippets for Developers and Designers
September 26, 2011 at 1:40 pm
When it comes to website design, there is no doubt that CSS is one of the most potent languages about. As we discussed in our post on semantic coding practises, HTML provides structure to a page, whereas Cascading Style Scripts should be the force behind appearance and aesthetics.
Today we list 10 of our top CSS Snippets, useful for web designers and developers alike. (Read more…)
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Our Three Favourite Web Development Tools
September 19, 2011 at 12:38 pm
Just as sure as the iconic doctor would be incomplete without a stethoscope across their shoulders, no professional web developer is without their own box of tools and tricks. In this article we’ll tell you a little about 3 of our all-time favourite tools, available to anyone. (Read more…)
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Tagged: adobe business websites content css firebug firefox graphics jquery kuler software web design web development
Kitchen Kapers Case Study Online Now
September 13, 2011 at 4:14 pm
Recently we have been working with one of Coventry’s biggest professional catering firms, Kitchen Kapers. The website we have developed for them not only brings about significant improvements to their online presence, but it has also allowed them streamline a number of processes behind the scenes in their offices. Clients can now interact with the company online, from ordering stock menus to completely designing their own and seeing prices update on the fly. So go on, take a look at the work we’ve done with Kitchen Kapers and their reactions to the new system: (Read more…)
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New Graphics for Our Home Page and Studio
September 13, 2011 at 10:05 am
We’ve been making some updates to the design of the Ormo Media site, most noticable amongst which is the new slideshow on the homepage showcasing some of our excellent offers and professional services. Also in the list of improvements and additions is the brand new Ormo Media Studio banner, which you can see above this article. Have a look at our new homepage images below and let us know what you think. (Read more…)
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Why Search Engine Optimisation Is Important For Your Site
September 8, 2011 at 4:30 pm
Most people access the internet via search engines. Google, Bing, Yahoo and the hundreds of other alternatives are a portal for users to locate the websites that they want and searches can often throw up millions of results, so it is imperative that you can ensure your website appears as close to the top of these lists as possible. (Read more…)
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Should Online Newspaper Content Be Free?
September 1, 2011 at 3:16 pm
There is a debate raging in the media at the moment about whether newspapers should have their content online and whether readers should have to pay in order to access the content. Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper The Times has already hidden its content behind a paywall and it is expected that his other UK paper The Sun will follow soon. But are they right to do this? (Read more…)
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Is Twitter an Important and Credible News Source?
August 26, 2011 at 9:58 am
In the wake of the recent UK riots and the conflict in Libya, Twitter is rapidly emerging as a genuine source of real-time information and, as such, the mainstream media is turning to the social network as a funnel of news taken right from the scene. But of course, we can’t always rely on the Average Joe at street level to provide us with the whole truth. So, how far can Twitter be trusted? (Read more…)
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Effective Content Writing: Striking the Balance
August 12, 2011 at 7:14 am
A solid and interesting design is the foundation stone of any website. With a top-draw design, a website has the perfect platform to build a site that perfectly fits a purpose. However, there is still a lot of work to do at this stage in order to make your website exactly what you need. One of these aspects is your actual written copy, and in some ways, it is the most important part of any webpage. (Read more…)
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Keep ‘Em Wanting More
July 21, 2011 at 11:30 am
One of the big conundrums faced by a web developer is how to make visitors return to their website after their first visit. Unless there is an incentive for the visitor to return, they are unlikely to visit the website more than once. From the point of view of a webmaster selling products, it is important to get the customer to return to the website as many times as possible in order to have the opportunity to sell them more of your products. (Read more…)
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Five Cardinal Sins of Web Design
July 8, 2011 at 12:57 pm
Website design is a difficult art to master. A good design needs to be aesthetically pleasing, but also not take attention from the main content of the site. There are many facets to the process and, as such, there are many ways in which it can go wrong. Here are five of the worst possible things you can do, almost certainly resulting in a poor website design. (Read more…)
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A New Look for Google’s Homepage
June 29, 2011 at 10:50 am
Over the last few days, Google have been rolling out a sleek new look for their homepage that can also be seen on a number of other Google products and services. The changes to their (already minimalistic) style have helped to bring the page up to date, after remaining reasonably static over recently. (Read more…)
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Social Media: Get it Right for Your Business
June 17, 2011 at 8:36 am
Facebook and Twitter are very popular tools nowadays. Businesses are very quickly flocking to these websites in order to promote their products. Some of them get it right and see their profits soar through the roof due to their social media usage. But it is very easy to get it wrong and alienate your entire prospective customer base. So what can you do to ensure that you stay on the right side of the potentially huge social media customer base? (Read more…)
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Branding – Stand Out From the Crowd
June 13, 2011 at 12:39 pm
It’s difficult for a new business to stand out. Often, a new company will be plunging into the midst of a highly saturated market and so something is needed to make sure that they stand out from the crowd as a business worth the money of its prospective customers. What they need to achieve in order to help themselves get noticed is a strong brand image. (Read more…)
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The Main Reasons You Need a CMS – Time & Money
June 2, 2011 at 4:36 pm
In the modern era, everybody has a website. For businesses especially, it is now essential to have an online presence to bring in your customers. But the problem is that not everyone has the expertise to make a website. This has a fairly simple solution: you contact a website development company and they build a web presence for you. (Read more…)
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Five Ecommerce Myths That Just Aren’t True
May 23, 2011 at 9:48 am
There’s no doubt that ecommerce is a simply massive revenue stream for countless businesses the world over. As a powerful entity, ecommerce has proved to be quite literally game-changing in an incredibly diversified range of industries.
So why are a lot of companies hesitant to open the digital doors online sales? We look at five of the biggest myths that tend to make business owners shy away from ecommerce options. (Read more…)
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