The Blog
Hints, tips and guides to marketing, websites and social media.
Over the years we have found that the same questions about owning and running a website come up again and again. This blog answers many of those and also throws in a few topics that you should be aware of, hopefully you will find it useful. There may also be some things that we just find interesting and want to write about.
Tips on working from home
Many people are waking up to the fact that in the midst of a global pandemic-virus-apocalypse scenario you are amongst the lucky ones if you can work from home. Despite the rather smug government advice to 'work from home if you can', there are only a few of us...
Advanced SEO techniques
You have done the SEO basics but still want to increase your site traffic? So you have great content in your site, full of the right keywords and phrases, the meta descriptions are set for every page and post. You have carried out the SEO audit we mention in...
SEO Basics
The most important rule: Produce the best content you can and provide a user friendly experience That is in big type because it is so important, if you don't then quite frankly you may as well give up. The 'id' part of Construct id stands for Information...
Picture sizes for your website or blog
Websites get broken most easily by uploading pics that are the wrong size Wordpress is a dream, you can create and produce a website for a client and hand it over for them to run themselves. All the wonderful features in the CMS allow total control for the client....
Why you shouldn’t use ‘free’ design tools such as Wix
'Why use a professional web designer when you can use Wix and do it yourself?' is a question we hear every so often, sometimes it is posed slightly differently, such as 'My mate has put something together in Wix and it looks good' or 'I think this is fine for what I...
GDPR and managing your data
We have been busy over the last few weeks updating privacy policies for all of our clients to comply with the new General Data Protection Regulation. It is probably the single biggest thing to hit website owners for a very long time - or is it? There is a general...
Surf School Lanzarote in the press
Congratulations to one of our favourite clients, Surf School Lanzarote, in being featured in the Guardian newspaper's list of '10 of the best surfing schools in the world'. We designed, implemented and maintain the website for this great surf school, run by Tim Jones....
Mobile is King
Having a website that works well on a mobile device is paramount today The share of all website traffic in 2017 generated through mobile phones was 50.3%. 2018 is sitting at 52.2% so far, which is in itself pretty amazing when you consider that back in 2009 it...