Elan Web Design

You might be wondering what the real benefits of a website are for your business.

Admittedly, in the past, a poorly designed website which was never updated was unlikely to generate much, if any, extra interest in your small business.

These days however, the internet represents a fantastic opportunity for your company. You don’t need to sell directly online to make it worth your while; thousands of service orientated businesses have an online presence too. [Read more →]

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This week, I have just finished working on a site for a not-for-profit organisation, Abilities First. It is the first time that I have done any work for a charity/organisation like this and I found myself really enjoying it.

I haven’t been paid anything, I’ve been working late at night to get it finished and I’ve had to put other things off until I got it completed but I still enjoyed it.

In fact, I would encourage all small business owners to consider this type of work. Why? [Read more →]

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The purpose of these tutorials is to help people who are curious about the whole aspect of building their own website. I’ll do this by walking you through how I built ‘Ben Hall Garden Services’.

While giving away free tutorials may seem to contradict the whole idea of my business, I find that there are lots of people who contact me for advice on web design/development in general and this is my way of hopefully answering some of the more common questions that I’m asked. [Read more →]

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People aren’t going to come to your site if they don’t know it exists!

This doesn’t necessarily mean that you have to spend a fortune on advertising (although this helps!) Below are my top 5 tips to get your site seen for free.

1. Participate in forums. Forums are a great way to make people aware of your business. They give you the opportunity to show your knowledge in a particular field and at the very least, you might make some good business contacts. [Read more →]

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One of the few things that is guaranteed to put me off a website is poor spelling and grammar.

Your website is often the first impression that a potential customer has of your business and it is crucial to appear professional.  Personally, I don’t trust a business that doesn’t bother to check their site’s copy.  What else have they overlooked? [Read more →]

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