Anyone looking at the BBC website today cannot fail to see the news story ‘Government to axe hundreds of ‘unnecessary’ websites‘. It refers to the fact that the Government are going to review all of their 820 existing websites and retire a portion of them in a bid to cut costs and save £100m.

When I was reading through the article a few figures jumped out at me (not least the £4m cost to build the UK Trade and Investment website!) If you look through the article and do the sums you’ll see that in 2009 – 2010: Read more…

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Recently I have been wanting to visit several restaurants or tourist attractions and have looked them up on my smartphone. Maybe I have been unlucky but approximately 50% of these searches have resulted in being unable to progress with either a visit, a booking or me getting my dinner! Why? Read more…

Web Design

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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