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 →]
There are many reasons why you shouldn’t use Javascript by itself for your site’s navigation.
Firstly, if your customers don’t have javascript enabled in their browsers, they can’t use your site!
It’s as simple as that! Straight away you have lost 7-10 % of your potential sales! (The latest surveys suggest this percentage of people don’t have javascript enabled) [Read more →]
Your brother has told you that he can do websites. How did you learn that? you ask, bewildered. ‘Well’, he says, ‘I got this copy of Dreamweaver from a bloke down the pub last Saturday and I’ve been teaching myself all week! It does it all for you, you just drag and drop the stuff where you want it!’ [Read more →]
For those of you that don’t know what Flash is (you’re in a minority), I shall try and describe to you in laymans terms.
If you’ve ever seen a website that has lots of super-cool animation, almost as if you’re watching a movie, has scenes play out in front of you every time you click a button or, as you load the website, you get a little bar that slowly fills up and says ‘loading’, you’ve witnessed Flash. [Read more →]