Do clients have to ‘like’ their website?
When we are designing a website for a client, I try to always keep a sharp focus on the client’s target audience(s) – the people to whom the website needs to engage with – as that is the star we…
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WordPress.com v WordPress.org ?
The word ‘WordPress‘ can actually mean different things in different contexts so it’s worth spending a little time digging into that a little. WordPress WordPress itself is the open-source content management publishing platform. It is a software application written in…
Is £10 too much for a website?
How much should you spend on a website? What is good value? In this article we walk through some examples to help reframe how you approach this important question. Our ideas about quality & value are funny old things. I…
I am not a “WordPress Guru”
This may seem an odd post but I’d like to get this off my chest…. I am often invited into a conversation or asked to give a talk about WordPress and website strategy etc – giving practical tips on how…
COVID, Lockdown, and my lessons from Apollo 13
I’m an unashamed Apollo space nut and I’ve been lucky enough to meet some of the original Apollo astronauts including Jim Lovell and Fred Haise. Now Jim and Fred were on the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission that, because of an…
When is it time to redesign your WordPress site?
Entropy. That’s s a fancy word, isn’t it?! Put simply it means the ‘gradual decline into disorder‘. And websites are not immune from entropy – they, like the universe, will also gradually decline into disorder. Cheery eh? The key though…
Zoom & Video Conferencing – the new normal
Online meetings and video conference have been around for a long time. They are central to the promised land of home working & distributed teams; freeing us from the tyranny of geography – or so we were promised. Technologies like…