We went along to a presentation by Nation1 a few weeks ago and something that was mentioned has made me think about writing this post since then.

The speaker was discussing the pros and cons of a bespoke Content Management System (CMS). Now, in the past using an off the shelf, open source CMS was something that might have tried to be hidden from clients for fear or being asked how we justify costs on ‘free’ software (we never hid it at PoLR I might add!).

Open Source can be seen as cheating by some as the software itself is free but the benefits of using this are what makes it worthwhile and the cheaper option for the client in the long run.

Read More about Bespoke and Open Source CMS

Web Design

I have just completed two websites for two of the most organised customers I have ever had. I don’t quite know what’s happened to make them both come along at once – maybe I’m being more effective or maybe I was just lucky but whatever it is I thought I would compose a wee post with why they were such successful (and by that I mean fast) builds. Read more…

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It never ceases to amaze me sometimes at the sheer lack of thinking outside the box from some people. A lot of the time it isn’t even outside the box, it’s in the box… common sense. I have actually spoken to other business owners, who when I asked whether they had a website, the reply comes:Read more…

Web Design

Every website we build at PoLR follows a certain ‘critical path’ to completion. A Critical Path is terminology that sets out the key milestones and points of a project that must be adhered to, in terms of time and build, in order for all other facets of the project to be able to work and be competed successfully.Read more…

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A friend was looking at the Learn Direct site the other day and found a web design course for £50.00, on the same note I was flicking through a well known web design magazine a few weeks ago when I spied an advert for a ’Professionally designed website for £35 a year’. I read it, then read it again and thought WHAT? £35.00 a YEAR for a “professionally designed website?”Read more…

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Is it just me, or does anybody else find that CAPTCHA’s (in Layman’s terms – the squiggly words you need to type in when signing up to a Social Media website, or something, to prove you’re a human) are getting more and more illegible?

Now, my issue isn’t with the CAPTCHA’s themselves, these are a necessary and useful element. My problem lies with the fact that you now need a degree in Hieroglyphics to be able to decipher them!Read more…

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