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How to Write a Web Design Brief
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…
09/03/2021
1. Pre-Project
Web Design Glossary of Terms
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…
09/02/2021
1. Pre-Project, 2. Project Delivery, 3. Website Aftercare
Web design Projects: Why should you engage a consultant ‘pre-project’?
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…
27/03/2020
1. Pre-Project
Do you do these 10 things during website maintenance? UPDATE: Audio Added
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…
11/12/2019
3. Website Aftercare
Running websites: Why you need to routinely purge data from your website
Blog Audio: Read/listen time: 6 minutes It is easy to fall into the trap of thinking that once your website is running that there is nothing else to do… I’m sure are aware of GDPR by now and that it puts responsability upon you to responsibly ask for, store and purge personal and sensitive…
03/12/2019
3. Website Aftercare
Web Design budgets: Why does your web designer want to know how much money you have?
Blog Audio: Read/listen time: 10 minutes I’m sure you have experienced it, you approach a bunch of web designers or design agencies for quotes for a website and they want to know every detail. Then the question comes where they ask you about how much money you have. You, stall, avoid the question and…
30/10/2019
1. Pre-Project
What’s the lifespan of your new website? (and how to extend it)
Blog Audio: Read/listen time: 9 minutes So, you have a lovely new website, fantastic, but do you know how long it will be useful for? In this post we will discuss how long a website can be effective for before it needs some kind of substantial work being carried out. For those of you…
22/10/2019
3. Website Aftercare
5 Ways to keep your web designer happy (and productive)
Blog Audio: Read/listen time: 15 minutes My name is Paul Edwards, I am a Web Consultant and Frontend Developer and I’ve been working in the web industry since 2005. Every day somewhere in the web industry projects fail, clients get unhappy and web designers get mistreated. So, lets have a look at 5 ways…
19/09/2019
2. Project Delivery
Industry conferences: Why you are a fool if you don’t go (and what your missing if you don’t)
Blog Audio: Read/listen time: 8 minutes My name is Paul Edwards, I am a Web Consultant and Frontend Developer and I’ve been working in the web industry since 2005. The evening before Wordcamp Brighton 2019 I started to write this blog post to explore the reasons why YOU might want to go to a…
17/09/2019
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Website Maintenance: What does it cost to run a website?
Blog Audio: Read/listen time: 14 minutes If you run a website or are planning on bulding one, have you been asking yourself this question? How much should I budget for running my website each month? My name is Paul Edwards, I am a Web Consultant and Frontend Developer and I’ve been working in the web…
20/06/2019
3. Website Aftercare

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