Do what I do...
I have been so busy that I haven't been posting which is exactly the excuse my clients give me for not posting. So maybe I should be saying 'do what I say, not what I haven't been doing.
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Watch out for the 'Sign up with Facebook' button
It would be hard to miss the press coverage of the Cambridge Analytica story and how they used Facebook apps to get into your data. Well to varying degrees there are many other organisations trying a similar thing on.
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Is the price right?
That thorny subject of pricing and being a mind reader. I like to compare with the difference between making a movie on a mobile phone to that made with the full film crew.
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Are you a designer?
Are you a designer or someone who knows exactly what they want? Have you noticed how many web developers have a tendency to tell you what you can and can't have?
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Do artists enjoy colouring books?
Consider, if you were an artist would you pop down to the stationers to get the latest colouring book for your next masterpiece?
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Do you know what you want to say?
When someone asks 'What do you want for your birthday?', do you always know? When you know you need a website, do you know what it's going to say?
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Does your website follow your brand guidelines?
You may have spent a fortune developing your company brand. You have gone to some trouble to ensure your communications are correctly branded to form that continuity.
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Updates, updates, updates... boring
I assume when your computer software needs updating your probably excited to discover what new features might have been included. On some systems you don't get the choice.
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Should I have a single page website?
There are definitely advantages to have everything on one easy to access single page. But what are the implications of using this style of presentation?
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Knowing the cost before you start
If you use a lawyer, the garage, even an accountant you generally don't discover the cost until you see the bill. Wouldn't be nice to know the cost before you hire?
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Does my website look big in this?
The question is more likley, 'is my website out of date?'. If it's more than six months old maybe. But that is no reason to worry, really.
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Be afraid, be very afraid, they are trying to steal your domain name.
I would be surprised if as the owner of a domain you hadn't received a few of these. Emails purporting that your domain renewal is overdue.
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Why use us when you could do it yourself?
There are loads of cool website builders out there. You can sign up and you could have a fully functioning website by the end of the day. So why would I want to hire a website designer to do it for me?
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The rules are changing
There was a time you could add a contact form to your website, people would use it to respond and you would contact them back, easy! Things are changing...
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Google wants everybody secure
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Do you really need a new website?
I was speaking to a company that had been referred to me yesterday. They were not happy with their website. Not a new issue as you can imagine...
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"What am I going to say?"
The biggest hold up on just about any website is the content. Assuming the business owners are experts in what they do, then they are the best people to create the content for the website.
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Do websites get holidays?
Christmas is almost upon us, again, and most people are planning on a few days of relaxing and getting away from the day to day stress of running a business. Brilliant isn't it?
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Unlimited bandwidth, really?
Many hosting packages now seem to feature unlimited bandwith. First do you know what it means and second how honest are they being.
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GDPR, or the General Data Protection Regulation
Should you be worried about how GDPR will effect your website? Probably not for the average brochure type website because it's all about the data you collect and what you do with it.
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Your emails, as secure as a holiday postcard
Shock, surprise, horror your emails are not secure, not even particularly private. A lot of people have legitimate access to your emails.
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