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18 Mar

Adding Interactive Games to Your Website

Think about it, there are games everywhere, on all devices and people love them. The best reason to embed an interactive game on your website is that it encourages customers to linger and interact with your site. Your visitors are getting rewarded with a game enticing them to attain levels and or points. The interactive…

17 Oct

Small Business – Get Your Website Right First Time

Your website is the first place many potential customers go when they are researching products and services. An effective, properly planned website is essential. A well designed website increases traffic and turns inquiries into sales at a fraction of the cost of traditional marketing campaigns. If you want to push the right buttons with your…

03 Oct

Tips for Writing a Case Study

Why do you need Case Studies on your site? Assume the client does not have any intuition about your processes Case Studies are designed to win the confidence of a prospective client. They need to see that you are capable of designing, developing and promoting their business through web development. Its as simple as a…

30 Sep

What is a Content Management System (CMS)?

A CMS is basically a software system that facilitates administration, authoring and collaborative content creation for web users who are not experienced with web programming languages. The three most popular CMS WordPress, Drupal and Joomla are easy to use and are often favoured by small businesses, individual bloggers and not-for-profit organisations. The benefits of a…

12 Sep

Matterport is a great 3D Walkthrough Feature on your website

We have been approached by clients to embed Matterport walk throughs into their website allowing visitors to explore architectural spaces in a virtual 3D format. Matterport is a great digital solution for architects, real estate agents, and builders to showcase internal and external spaces to potential clients. It allows clients to navigate their way around a virtual interior and get a…

22 May

Why You Need a Professional Photographer

Three good reasons a professional photographer will add value to your website: If you want to stand out in the digital space and make a statement about your company vision and values, strong, original images that add to your business story are the best option for your website. A professional photographer will take the time…

18 May

Five Beautiful Web Designs for the Health Care Sector

Websites dedicated to health care need not be sanitised digital spaces that remind your clients of a hospital. There is plenty of scope for creating inviting, responsive digital spaces that encourage your customers to engage and discover more about the health care options you have to offer. We have done some digging and found five…

17 Apr

Visual Communication and Design

Logos, Branding and Web Design As a communication designer, I particularly love the way that the internet has enhanced, nurtured and developed communication design for all kinds of businesses and organisations. It is my job to ensure that our clients are being heard and remembered, among the cacophony of competing messages everywhere on the Net. Many…

18 Jan

Your Small Business & the Web Design Process

What you need to know before contacting a web designer Your website is the first place many potential customers go when they are researching products and services so an effective, properly planned website is essential. A well designed website increases traffic and turns enquiries into sales at a fraction of the cost of traditional marketing…

22 Oct

Goodreads vs. Booktopia

Goodreads vs. Booktopia: What’s the difference? Goodreads and Booktopia are all about books and reading, but that’s where the similarity ends. One site is dedicated to reader interactivity while the other is a dedicated online bookstore. If you’re wondering which site to join, read on! Goodreads Goodreads is a seriously interactive, reader-orientated site, and it…

10 Nov

WordPress now powers 25% of the worlds websites!

Other web developers often ask why we chose to develop most of our sites in Wordpress. Often it is with an elitist edge wondering why we would lower downground our skills to develop on Wordpress. The thing is we can develop a site for 1/3 of the price of a Drupal or Magento site and…

15 Aug

eCommerce discussed Part #2: Processing Payments

Processing Payments & your eCommerce store: Processing payment programs are the least understood part of running an eCommerce store- solely for the reason it is completely bewildering! Most people turn to the old faithful Paypal, but people that use Paypal as their processing program will tell you its neither faithful nor inexpensive. This is one area…

12 Aug

Thinking of an Online eCommerce Store? Part #1: Freight Costs

Freight Costs & your eCommerce store:As with everything in business you need to make sure you have planned properly and researched thoroughly, as a wrong decision in the design stage will cost you thousands and will lead to dozens of hours a week in maintenance, inventory control and double handling.Determine freight & postage fees early onSetting…

09 Jun

Considering an E-Commerce site?

11 things to consider when developing an E-commerce site E-commerce. It’s been a buzz-word of the retail industry for the last decade or so. It seems so easy to get an online store and start making money. Customers come to you, via your website. What's not to like? Every retailers dream, right? In reality it’s…

08 Jun

QR Codes: Are they suitable for your business?

What is a QR Code? QR Codes, in a nut shell, are new age bar codes. QR stands for Quick Response. To access the information embedded in the QR code, scan the QR bar code with your smartphone. Once scanned, QR Codes send the information contained in the code to your phone. It's a quick an…

09 Oct

JQuery Explained

Thinking of using JQuery for your next Web Design? JavaScript is a programming language that enables web pages to be more dynamic or interactive. It’s development has seen web pages go from simple static pages of text and images to useful applications and interesting graphics. JQuery is a library of JavaScipt functions collected to make…

05 Oct

The world is running out of website addresses!

Stop Press! I'm sure you've read the headlines- great headline, but slightly mistaken. The world is running out of IP Addresses but not domain names so you can relax. But why did so many media outlets run stories on the web running out of space? Here's a simplified explanation of IPv6 and the issue with…

08 Sep

What is HTML5?

Is HTML5 worth your while? HTML is the code used to program what you see on the screen when you view a website in a browser. HTML5 is the latest incarnation of this language, which has been in it’s previous form since 1997. With such an increase in the use of video, audio, graphics and…

16 Aug

What is Responsive Design?

Mobile Responsive Design Designing sites for various screen resolutions used to be based on the most popular screen sizes. As years went by and screens got larger, this meant fixing the site’s content width and redesigning the site periodically – or leaving the width and having subsequently larger background border space around the central content…

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