Over the last month or so, I’ve written about the emergence and use of QR codes more than once or twice and today’s post is another about their uses as a marketing tool.

Last year, I wrote a couple of web design posts on the growing number of QR codes and said that creative marketers would probably come up with interesting and innovative ideas for their use other than just being a quick link to websites, and since then one such idea to emerge is as an aid [...]

It’s the end of another year and typically a time when we look back at what has happened during the past twelve months. This blog like many others has looked at various areas of general web design and has endeavoured to keep abreast of both developing and outgoing trends.

In the first post of this three-parter, I started out by saying that even though more and more websites are now being accessed via mobile devices and businesses should have a mobile-optimised version of their website, they shouldn’t make the mistake of overlooking the continued importance of their main website and offered what I hope [...]

In this second of three posts regarding maintaining your main website, we look at copy. Your website copy is one of the most important elements of your site and arguably the most powerful because it’s what tells visitors what they want to know. Like any other part of your site the copy must be kept [...]

With the insatiable appetite for smartphones and the need for businesses to have a mobile-optimised website, it would be easy to forget that in the clamour to capture mobile visitors your main website still needs to be properly maintained. It’s true that more and more visitors are using mobile devices for online activities like shopping, [...]

A couple of days ago I happened across a website that left me quite amazed. It wasn’t because it had an outstanding design or stunning graphics. It wasn’t interactive and nor did it have any fancy Flash animation. What amazed me was the fact that the only way of contacting the owner was through a [...]

Before writing this, the last post before Christmas, I went to my local supermarket to get some last minute bits and pieces, and you’d expect, the place was extremely busy despite the early hour but I quickly got what I needed anyway and headed for the checkout. I didn’t actually reach the checkout for another [...]