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Posted: Tuesday, 6th September, 2011, Category: Tips and advice
 If you don’t own a tablet yet, you probably have a friend or acquaintance who does. If you have an Apple store nearby, you can always drop in to your local Apple store and test your website yourself. Alternatively, your web designer should be able to do this for you.
What to check for?
Does your page present correctly?
Of course, of immediate concern is to check the obvious; do your pages show any design/layout faults when viewed on a tablet? Depending on the age of your website, there are potential problems.
Posted: Tuesday, 6th September, 2011, Category: Tech News
 Back in time…
Back in 1997, we designed websites for Internet Explorer 3, setting page widths to match the smaller 800 x 600 screen resolution popular at that time (resulting in narrow websites compared with today). We restricted ourselves to 216 colours which were considered as “web safe” (reliable on both a Windows PC and an Apple computer).
The computers viewing our websites were often beige coloured monsters lurking in the corners of living rooms, with space hogging CRT monitors.
The rise of the laptop
Then, very gradually, laptops tumbled in price… Originally costing £2,000 upwards (twice the price of a desktop PC), laptop prices have fallen to only a few hundred pounds. Coupled with their comparatively discrete footprint, laptops have long since usurped desktop PCs from most homes.
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Posted: Wednesday, 10th August, 2011, Category: Site Launches
The Joinery Workshop supply quality joinery throughout North Norfolk & North West Norfolk to local developers, builders, homeowners, local authorities, architects etc.
Posted: Thursday, 4th August, 2011, Category: Site Launches
The Nelson Country Inn and Dining – Superb drink, food and accommodation, set in the Heart of Burnham Market, on North Norfolk’s beautiful coast.
Posted: Saturday, 16th July, 2011, Category: Tips and advice
 Dropbox isn’t new. It’s been around for quite a while now. But if you haven’t discovered it yet, it’s certainly worth taking a closer look.
It only takes a moment to register a free account with Dropbox, requiring little more than an email address and password from you. Once downloaded and installed, a “Dropbox” folder appears within your Documents folder on your PC. This folder behaves in much the same as any other folder, except the contents can also be accessed on other PCs, as well as smartphones and tablets.
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Posted: Tuesday, 12th July, 2011, Category: Site Launches
Broadland Products Ltd is a steel fabrication company based near Norwich, in Norfolk. With over 20 years experience of Commercial and Domestic steelwork, Broadland has the expertise and equipment to meet all steel supply and steelworking requirements.
Posted: Thursday, 7th July, 2011, Category: Better Design
 Don’t make the mistake of spending your entire budget on the design of your website only to forget about the text. Even on a fantastic looking website badly written web copy will turn off customers and lose you business.
It’s not just the more common spelling mistakes and errors in grammar you need to be aware of:
- Is your written content talking to YOUR customers?
- Is it TAILORED to the demographic you’re aiming for?
- Does it tell your customers WHAT THEY WANT TO HEAR or only what you think they want to know?
- Overall is it: CLEAR? CONCISE? CREATIVE? CUSTOMISED?
Copywriters can supply effective website text which, as well as getting your key messages across, is keyword rich to help with that all important Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
To see more and learn about copywriting services visit the website of one of our favourite copywriters, Nigel Woollsey:
www.nigelwoollsey.co.uk
Posted: Thursday, 23rd June, 2011, Category: Site Launches
This month saw the launch of the Cley Parish Council website, designed to assist the council to disseminate information (meeting minutes, accounts and similar) and to offer general information for residents and visitors to the village of Cley in Norfolk.
The website is powered by our favourite content management system, WordPress which allows the client to update their web pages very easily and also provides a simple but effective blogging/news system. As with all packages of this nature, the client receives full training on the operation of the website, has our own support website to consult when required and has a hosting contract which ensures that WordPress is continually up-to-date (and backed up). We’ve tried to cover every angle!
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Posted: Wednesday, 22nd June, 2011, Category: Tips and advice
 One question which comes up frequently is how website owners can protect their images from being stolen. One of the first things to realise is that almost any information, be it text or images, placed online is in the public domain and therefore vulnerable to thieves. One simple rule to follow is therefore not to put anything online which you would not like to be stolen.
However, one of the primary reasons for operating a website is to display your products and if your products happen to be images (e.g. artwork or photography), it’s difficult to advertise these without placing them online. So, a catch 22 situation arises, where on the one hand you wish to represent your work in the best way possible, but at the same time, you don’t want your work to be ripped off.
Another important point to understand from the beginning regards the enforceability of copyright. As we‘ve said in a previous blog post, copyright (when breached) can be very difficult to enforce unless you are a very large company (usually a corporate) and even then, it can be difficult to control.
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