Clarke Website Design Articles

Cookies

Firstly, if you don’t know what a website cookie is; have a wander over to Wikipedia for a quick read

Does it affect me?

YES – If you are a person or business in the EU and have a website – it affects you. Even personal websites are affected.

This affects where the owner is based and not where the website lives, so if you are in the EU and have a .com website in America, it still applies to you. Read the rest of this article »

Here are 6 great reasons why you should put your website address on your shop.

1) Why Wouldn’t You ?

Seriously, why wouldn’t you want to advertise your website on your shop front? You’re daft not to.

We can’t think of a single reason why – if we’ve invested in premises, a beautiful shop sign and a website; that we wouldn’t want to bring them all together.

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A very worrying trend has appeared over the past few months with more and more of our customers asking us to remove their telephone number from their website.

We so very strongly advise against this · You must be contactable by telephone

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When it comes to choosing an email address for your website you have a few choices as to how to handle this.

You could use the Hotmail account you’ve had for a few years that everyone knows and is still on those old business cards you had printed way back when. You could choose to not publish your email address on your website so that you don’t get any more spam or you could choose a professional solution and demonstrate your commitment to your online visitors.

What are you going to choose? Read the rest of this article »

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is one of the many vital tasks that you must do to ensure that your website earns it worth.

You want to make sure that as well as advertising your website and promoting it at every possible opportunity (yes you must do this you know), if people use search engines to try to find you, there is some chance that your website will be ranked well for the phrases that people are typing into the major search engines.

Search engine specialists exist to help you get your website ranked better, but with so many supposed specialists out there, how can you know before you employ them, which ones might be worth giving a go and which ones you should slam the phone down on.

Here are a few hints and tips to help spot the fraudsters in the SEO world.

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Many website design companies offer Website Design Packages, where for a fixed price you’ll get a basic website design, some hosting, maybe a domain name and at the end you’ll get a website. Sounds Great.

However, whilst these packaged websites have some great advantages, they’ll also introduce some pitfalls along the way.

Here we discuss a few of the benefits and some of the pitfalls to watch out for. Read the rest of this article »