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I’ve spent over fifteen years building websites for clients, and one of the biggest lessons I’ve learned is a simple one: if you leave it up to the client to get back to you with what you need,… Read More...
Honesty means sometimes you turn away potential customers
One of my favourite parts of being a small business owner is getting to talk to other small business owners. It’s remarkable, but no matter how different our businesses may be, we all face the… Read More...
Sometimes it pays to think inside the box
This week I’ve been working heavily with a client who has both a limited budget and somewhat non-standard set of requirements. These two scenarios normally elicit a sense of dread in even the most… Read More...
Here’s one of my top productivity tips
I’m not too proud to admit that sometimes I have the attention span of a toddler. I settle down for a work session, get something built, click on the deploy button and have to wait for a few… Read More...
How fast is your website?
Nobody likes it when the website they’re using takes forever to load, right? Well, this is true not only for your customers, but for your search engine ranking as well. There are absolutely no… Read More...
Don’t forget your old URLs!
When you’re launching a new website, a good agency will have a checklist they work to. There’s a number of things that should be on this checklist, some are specific to certain platforms and some… Read More...
Is your agency up front about licensing costs?
In the world of web development, for better or worse, Wordpress is king. And unlike with other CMS platforms such as Drupal, the ecosystem of addon modules for Wordpress is highly commercialised… Read More...
Are you a designer looking for a technical backstop?
Recently I have been working with a couple of design agencies to help them get web development projects out the door for their clients. The people at these agencies are relatively tech savvy, but… Read More...
Dynamic ways to work with your clients
Recently I have been working with a couple of clients for whom the agreed project structure is quite separated from the norm. Traditionally, a project starts off with a brief - a lengthy, detailed… Read More...
Understanding the Content Management System landscape as a business owner.
There are literally thousands of Content Management Systems (CMS) out there, and if you came into it as an amateur and tried to pick one, you'd get hopelessly lost in the first five minutes. In… Read More...