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Deck the Digital Halls: Gearing Up Your Website for Festive Times
Blog Audio: 3 minutes Just like that, Christmas is almost upon us. If you’re planning on closing your business for Christmas (I really hope you are), there are a few things you could do to make sure your company website is all set for the holiday season. My name is Paul Edwards, I am a…
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The Three-Month Verdict: Lessons from Our WordPress Maintenance Experiment
Blog Audio: Read/listen time: 9 minutes A little over 3 months ago I set up a test website with no intention of maintaining it. I posed the question, “Will it get hacked? Will it end up selling dodgy pharmaceuticals or will it just soldier on forever?”. Now, 3 months on, I’ve got another update with…
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Two Months In: Unraveling the Mysteries of WordPress Maintenance
Blog Audio: Read/listen time: 13 minutes A little over 2 months ago I set up a test website with no intention of maintaining it. I posed the question, “Will it get hacked? Will it end up selling dodgy pharmaceuticals or will it just soldier on forever?”. Now, 2 months on, I’ve got some data and…
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Always on Call: The Perks of having a Web Designer on Retainer
Blog Audio: Read/listen time: 8 minutes If you carry out any part of your business activity online, which you probably do, a web designer is going to be an essential part of your business. A harder decision is deciding whether to keep one on retainer compared to employing directly or using a random freelancer or…
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Rethinking Your Website Portfolio: Is It Helping or Hurting Your Business?
Blog Audio: Read/listen time: 8 minutes In a departure from the regular ‘how-to’ kind of blog posts that I write, I thought that I would (for a change) cover something about website content. Do you use your website to generate sales or enquiries? Do you have a portfolio on your website? Today we discuss: Why…
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The big WordPress maintenance experiment: Let’s find out the truth
Blog Audio: Read/listen time: 7 minutes I’ve set up a test website with no intention of maintaining it. Will it get hacked? Will it end up selling dodgy pharmaceuticals or will it just soldier on forever? My name is Paul Edwards, I am a Web Consultant and Frontend Developer and I’ve been working in the…
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Crafting an Effective Web Design Brief: A Step-by-Step Guide
Blog Audio: Read/listen time: 22 minutes You may be working on an exciting new web project, an existing website, or perhaps the next iteration of the website for your business or organisation you work with. Whichever position you find yourself in, you have realised that your project has a higher probability of success if you…
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Web Design Terminology Explained: A Comprehensive Glossary
Unfortunately in the world of web design it is true that both web designers and businesses can use terms and phrases which either mean different things to each party or which are simply not understood by the clients. My name is Paul Edwards, I am a web consultant and frontend developer based in Worthing, West…
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The Double-Edged Sword: Balancing Web Design Costs and Research
Blog Audio: Read/listen time: 13 minutes I have met very few clients that ‘like’ paying for research or discovery works. Essentially this is pre-project web consultancy and many people see it as lost money, money that could be spent on building the website or delivering the digital project in some real tangible way. My name…
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The Maintenance Decalogue: Ten Commandments for a Healthy WordPress Website
Blog Audio: Read/listen time: 6 minutes You already know that it is essential to keep your website maintained so I won’t go into depth here about why website maintenance is important. What you may not know however is what kind of activities you should be carrying out when you maintain your site. My name is…
