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“I can’t be bothered having a website for my business”

August 31st, 2009

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…

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The stages of a website design and build

August 19th, 2009

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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Website design? – I’ll do it myself.

August 18th, 2009

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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CAPTCHA’s are only meant to fool Robots, not Ryans!

July 15th, 2009

captchaIs 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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Proxy Servers : When they work and when they fail!

June 8th, 2009

surfing in disguiseWe were looking over analytics today and were amused by a few surprises it threw up. First were the ‘Nasty Chewbacca’ and ‘using term loosely’ searches that led people to our website and the second was the unwavering insistence from a company to use hidemyass to access our website. Read more…

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Graphic and Web Designers – working in harmony!

June 4th, 2009

I saw a comment on Twitter the other day and it made me think ‘Wow, that’s a great blog idea and it’d be easy to do too’. After I started writing it I was still thinking ‘Wow, that’s a great blog idea’ but I was also thinking ‘this is actually a bit of a bugger to do’.

(un)Fortunately(for me) I had already messaged the Twitter’er and well, committed to writing it. So here’s my effort and his Tweet that made me do it! Read more…

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