Intro Questions you may want to ask your web developer. This post could equally be titled ‘Questions a web developer should ask themselves’. If you are a web designer yourself it may help you focus on what value you offer, what you may miss, what your competitors are doing (or not) that you can do, […]
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Choosing the best host for your website Intro This will be a rambling viewpoint more than authoritative post, but I’ve been doing web design and hosting for well over twenty years, so it’s backed up with experience. This experience includes all sorts of companies and hosting options (shared, VPS, dedicated and cloud-based servers, managed and
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This post: circa 7,800 words, estimated reading time: 40 minutes Intro This posts looks at web designers in and around St Helens, Merseyside, but can apply in practice to any town. It’s pedantic and at times harsh, even snarky. Enjoy! I was and am umm’ing and arr’ing about starting a web design company locally, so
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Web design, just how you like it, Sir! Sir, or ma’am, of course. First the good news: I am considering offering to do websites again for a reasonable, possibly even near-cost price. Huzzah! See our daughter site, Ackadia.co.uk Now the bad news: I’m not a big fan of the curious idea that ‘the customer is
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Intro The web design questionnaire below was part of a business plan feasibility study towards my ILM Level 2 Certificate in Enterprise. These are the questions a prospective web company should be asking themselves and a range of potential clients to ascertain whether the market exists and is viable. This suggested list excludes other factors
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Fun and tears keeping a site up This is something for you to think about when you see a web site offered for free or something ridiculous like £1.99 a year including e-commerce. Stuff economies of scale, costs have to be covered. You can do sites for free (or at least at cost), I certainly
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Why bother ? "Hmmm ? Never thought about it." "Why bother going to all that trouble, it’s not like it affects many folk…" "Well, they can’t see properly, nothing we can do about that, is there?" "Looks fine to me and that’s what matters!" Given that you are here, reading this, I assume and hope
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Colour Charts showing visible spectrums { Chart showing spectrums for colour blind people } { The standard websafe colour palette } { Standard websafe colour palette, as seen by someone with Deuteranope colourblindness } { Standard websafe colour palette, as seen by someone with Protanope colourblindness } (To find: Tritan palette)
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