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We were proud to be featured in the Western Mail this week in association with the company who we lease our offices from. The Western Mail is a great Welsh newspaper based like us, in Cardiff. Nice publicity for our Cardiff Web Design business :-) ...
Inward Links Google counts inward links to your website and classes them as votes. It then takes the number of links in to your site from the number of links you have on your site to another site. This leaves you with a net score. There is additional complexity as the vote you receive or vote you cast is not worth the same in all cases. Google takes the net score of your site to weight the votes you cast and takes the net score of the site linking to you...
Choosing the right company to take forward your website can be a daunting task. There are so many different options and this can be very confusing especially if this is the first time you have ever had a website designed. To help you through this minefield we have put together a short guide with some helpful tips. Things you should expect: >You should expect to pay a fee for building the site if it is a bespoke design >You should expect to pay a fee for the hosting of your website >Normally it will...
We've just completed our move to our new offices in the old Malting building just outside Cardiff city centre. We'd love to invite you to come and visit us for a nice cup of tea or coffee to catch up on how things are going with your website or see how we can help you with something new. If you would like to come down just drop us a line and we can book you in. ...
Having built hundreds of websites for clients it seems surprising that despite trying to overcome common issues which arise over and over, they still seem to pop up. Here are some of the common mistakes when getting a website designed and how you can help avoid them. Problem Briefs Before any website can be built your web designer will need to know what you are looking for, the objectives of the site and an idea of your tastes. One of the most common issues that we encounter is clients not provided a...
With more and more business moving onto the web, search engine optimisation or SEO is become increasingly important. A fantastic site is worth nothing if no one ever sees it. SEO is the art of making your site friendly to search engines like Google and Yahoo to achieve the best ranking for the keywords that your business is targeting. So, what’s the golden rule to achieving that number one page rank? Well no one really knows exactly how the search engines rank pages apart from the search engines themselves. What we...
As a business we are often asked at what point should I get my website started. Often people feel they are not quite ready with all their content and so they decide to delay getting their website built. We believe that the best time to get your website started is now. Why should I get my website started now? >Your website is actually not just about your website site, it’s also about all the things which come with it such as your email accounts and your web address. You may not be...
The nightmare scenario for any business is their web designer going bust. In today’s economy it’s not easy to guarantee your web designer won’t go under but if the worst does happens here is some guidance which may help: >1.Your web address – Your web address can usually be recovered. When you appoint a new company to take over your website they should be able to recover control of your address and move it from the old company to them. It’s worth noting that just because your designer has gone bust, your...
