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…
I was reading an article the other week that gave advice on designing websites for women. It claimed that a pink, pretty site with lots of images and obvious calls to actions were what was required to keep women amused online. I found the article quite condescending, I’m female and have never been into anything girlie and pink and kind of resent the stereotype (and hate even more that it was written by a woman).Read more…
We recently carried out some research for PoLR regarding the PoLR website and this blog. We noticed a theme of questioning kept coming up that reiterated to us just how important simple, straightforward wording is on a website and how clearly identifying navigation is.
The theme throughout the focus group was that the group were confused by what our blog was and what it was for. This suprised us as we’ve never had any problem explaining to customers etc what a blog is and so assumed the case would be the same online. Read more…
We have blogged before on this site about why a validated* website is important. I’m not going to go over the post again but I was looking over it the other day and it made me want to to find out some stats on how many websites are validated. We all know about it and talk about it but do we all do it? While researching, I came across a survey from late last year that had just what I was looking for.Read more…
I’m a massive fan of the Apprentice and Sr’Allan and I watch with glee every week to see whether the contestants will attempt to sell cheese to France or E-numbered up lollies to kids or anything else that would be deemed car-crash TV. It’s fun to watch and to imagine you’d do it differently.
This week however, took the biscuit.Read more…
Over the years we have been asked many a time to create a few mock-up/speculative website designs to present during sale time (and pre sign-up). In the past (and previous positions) we were always made to do it, being told that it could be the deal clincher. I have always had a problem with these for reasons I will go into in a minute but first let me reinforce that when I say mock-ups I actually mean non-charged for/free work (an important point in my argument).Read more…
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