Of course nearly all businesses these days have a web site, but does it do anything?

In the early days, companies decided to have a web site because they felt they needed one and they filled it with as much information as possible. Truth is most people won’t bother to read it all.

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6. Check Spelling.
Again this may seem like an obvious point but it is vital you get a second pair of eyes to read over copy and check it reads well and is spelt correctly. Spelling mistakes give bad first impressions of a company so simply take care check, recheck and recheck again.
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Every so often a new buzz word comes along. Some arrive then quickly disappear, but blogging is one that began to gain momentum at the end of the 90’s and has continued to grow ever since. Surprisingly though, there are still many people who are unfamiliar with the term and not taking advantage of the benefits it can bring to your business.

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The job of building a website can be vast and complex and in learning new things it is easy to forget the core principles which make a website effective. Maybe this isn’t quite a blueprint for the perfect website but if you follow these steps you wont go far wrong. Oh and if you feel there’s anything I’ve missed please feel free to post a comment. Such is the pace the web changes I’m sure these rules will change to but for now here are the first 5 things you must do in order to have a great website:
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There are many elements of which a good website should consist of and one of these not often spoken about is the humble favicon. Sitting in your browsers address bar as a 16 x 16 pixel image the favicon is often the first impression a user gets of your sites brand. (more…)

Do you feel that you could have moved your hands, keystroke by keystroke, across the globe twice every day? Interested in finding out just how much you type a day?

Probably not, but if you are WhatPulse is the must-have tool! It just sits in your system tray, counting your keystrokes, mouse clicks, and how far your mouse moves.

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If you use the wrong type of bait for fishing you won’t catch many fish….this same analogy applies to your landing page. The landing page essentially needs to be a choicy piece of bait in order to reel in users. An impressive landing page should build anticipation for when the site finally arrives and give the user a reason to come back. Recently we have dealt with several landing pages on sites like appointmentrooms.com and have developed a set of rules to give your site the best chance of success when it goes live. Another thing you should try to avoid is the clichéd under construction title accompanied by builder hat and construction sign imagery…this impresses no one.

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Well it seems that Microsoft has done it again. They have released another new piece of software meaning us developers have to rethink how we do things. They did it with Windows Vista, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Server 2008 and now Internet Explorer 8 joins the crew.

I remember when Mozilla overtook Microsoft in usage statistics with the release of Firefox 2.0. Faster browsing, a nicer user interface, a cool name, the works. Firefox 2.0 did everything you wished Internet Explorer (version 6 at the time) did and more. As Firefox grew bigger and bigger, Microsoft frantically began working on Internet Explorer 7 in an attempt to catch up. (more…)