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Responsive Design
One layout, every viewport — fluid grids and sane breakpoints.
Why it works
Straightforward advice on building and maintaining a website, without the jargon.
This site covers the practical side of getting a website right — from picking a colour scheme that doesn’t put visitors off, to making sure your pages actually work on a phone, to knowing when a five-year-old site needs a rebuild rather than a patch. Some of it is basic. Some of it covers things most agencies won’t bother explaining.
We write about what we’ve picked up building and maintaining sites for small businesses: what tends to go wrong, what’s worth spending money on, and what isn’t
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The latest articles
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Reasons Behind the Increased Demand for Web Programming Bedford Services
Most of Bedford is unknown to those outside the region, as a busy commercial corridor seamlessly blends light industrial estates, logistics, professional services, a growing network of independent retailers, and trades. Though not a headline city, Be…
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A good website is a valuable investment
Designing and developing a business website to maximise attracting potential clients to your business is a skilful task and although some businesses try to do this inhouse outsourcing the task can be seen as an investment. Utilising the services of a…
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Could your website colour scheme affect its appeal?
Website design has developed incredibly over the last few years and most websites have amazing graphics and page design elements aimed at attracting clients to read the content on the site and click through to sales but one thing that they all have i…
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The importance of ensuring your website is mobile compatible
With many websites receiving the majority of their traffic through mobile devices or tablets, it is vital that your site is designed and programmed in such a way that that ensures everything works and displays exactly as it should. It is not acceptab…
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The value of video advertising on websites explored
Website designers are having to make their websites all singing all dancing if they are to attract more visitors than their rivals and one of the ways they can do this is to use a wide range of visuals on their pages. Images and video footage needs t…
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Do charity websites help to raise funds?
Charities are always on the lookout for new ways to raise funds and one way they can do this is to have their own website but how can having a website increase the amount of funding that a charity receives? The first way that a charity website helps…
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Adding more graphics to your website
When designing and creating a website it is very important to get the balance right between graphics and text. Text is really useful for visitors but also for the search engines. Search engines such as Google cannot read text within flat images but i…
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Redesigning your website for Christmas
As Christmas approaches many businesses make changes to their websites to embrace the festive period. This may be changing your banner, adding an animated gif to the site or a pop up. Although you may not want to display this just yet, it is worth ge…
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How networking can help you get web development work
Networking is still a fantastic way to promote your business and make new business contacts. Historically most marketing was done through networking but since a lot of it is now done online through social media sites or websites, networking has dropp…
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Getting more quality traffic to your website
When it comes to web marketing, the more traffic your website has the more sales or enquiries you are likely to get. So therefore you may do everything possible to get visitors to your website, but you do need to bear in mind if it costs anything to…
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Make sure your website doesn’t get left behind
Although your website can be a great sales tool, it does need some TLC to ensure that it performs to its best ability and gives you the results you need. Having a website is the first step to improving your online marketing, but keeping it up to date…
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Creating a logo that fits with your business
If you have recently started out in business or have not done much marketing in the past, you may not have a logo. A logo is often an image or text or combination of that tells people a bit about what your business is. You may have your company name…
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