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We’ve recently completed quite a few website reviews and I wanted to share with you a serious, common issue which crops up time & time again. As you look at your website every day, you are too close to it to see…
Google Analytics can be a little bit overwhelming. Ok, by a ‘little‘ I mean a lot. In fact, it always reminds me of this scene from the classic comedy Airplane (hence the picture above!). The issue with Google Analytics is…
I had a phone call the other month from someone who said they were having problems with their site. They had fallen out with their previous supplier and were shopping around for a new ‘web designer‘. Well, aside from the fact that falling…
We do quite a bit with analytics and we were recently called in to help a client with an issue they were having with their Google Tag Manager (GTM), Google Analytics (GA) & Enhanced Ecommerce integration. Here is the official…
A PDF is a Portable Document Format. They tend to get produced when, for example, you have a brochure created; a commercial printer will need a high res file to print out, that file is typically a PDF. Many businesses are awash…
Recently I delivered a workshop for the Chamber of Commerce in La Creuse, in France. I was discussing web strategy and all the elements which go in to a successful website. La Creuse is a semi-rural area, and that was reflected in…
We are very proud to be involved with the Caerleon Arts festival committee; part of the free, community or charity based work which we like to undertake alongside our main projects. Caerleon Arts are involved with many areas; from running…
Planning a website redesign is no easy undertaking; knowing where to start is always daunting. But, don’t worry, this post is here to help. Since 2001, we’ve helped countless people & businesses with their website redesign projects and, whilst each…
I have to say, when I first heard Facebook’s announcement about ‘chat bots‘ being the Next Big Thing ™, I was a tad skeptical. However, as the dust begins to settle, I may well be changing my mind… I was cautious…
In this week’s Campfire blog post, I chat to Gavin Hill-John about ‘personal hashtags‘. What are these, you ask? Well, check this tweet out: Progress on the paperwork pile is being made but it is very slow #managethemayhem — Gavin…
It gives me great pleasure to announce the launch of a freshly redesigned website for space-lectures.com. I’m a massive NASA fan and space nut, so I was really happy when I stumbled across a UK based charity that held events where us mere…
In this week’s post, I’ve posed a couple of question to Helen Reynolds about her very successful, #HatsOffNewport social media campaign. First off, a bit about Helen… Helen started using social media in local government in 2007 with a MySpace page dedicated to getting…