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What is QualiBooth? QualiBooth is an automated accessibility software which scans a website and reports back on any accessibility issues, pinpointing their source and offering suggestions to fix them. It monitors web pages over real time and updates as accessibility problems are remediated. How is QualiBooth priced? QualiBooth offers a 7-day free trial for you […]
You may have noticed a number of cookie consent messages like this when browsing the Web recently: You can’t miss them when browsing sites on your phone… What’s going on?? Have we been invaded by Cookie Monster? Well, no. It’s all in the interest of privacy and transparency. In this post I’ll attempt to answer […]
Should you hire a freelance web designer or agency? The question is nearly as old as the web itself. Most businesses can only take on so many employees to handle common business tasks such as accounting, admin and sales. But what happens when you need a website and find that your staff can’t help? You […]
A guest post by Gareth Simpson. Having a website that covers the SEO basics and is primed for future improvements should be your digital goal. You don’t want to be wasting digital budget on things that other websites do out-of-the-box. It’s important that SEO is factored into the site’s development, and that the future of […]
I’ve had a couple of people in contact with me lately who have been moving host. They’ve been bamboozled by the technical terms, jargon and acronyms used in the web hosting world. So I’ve put together a guide on some of the terminology used. My aim is to help you with understanding domains and web […]
You may have noticed a small change on this website this week. I have an extra letter “s” in the address bar! It took me a few hours to do this. Why did I bother? Read on to find out: What is HTTPS? What is SSL? Why do all websites need SSL now? How much […]
I was contacted this week by one of my clients, Jan Southern, with a strange problem. She’d just updated her site and added large hero images to some pages. Some white text was overlaid on the images, including her phone number. The issue was that the phone number didn’t show up properly on iPad and iPhone. […]
The other day, I went to help my mum complete a transaction online. The objective was simple: buy an event ticket. It turned out to be far more complex than I imagined, and I soon ended up as frustrated as she did. Here’s my list of what went wrong, and how it could have been […]
Design is constantly changing and evolving as new trends come and go yearly. That couldn’t be more true in the web design field where the ease of sharing and iterating makes design change move exponentially faster. Every year it’s fun to take a look at what happened with design in the previous year, and what’s […]
Updated 20 June 2019. This post has been brewing for a little while now, and a conversation earlier this week with a fellow industry professional inspired me to write it. (Thanks, Mike!) A simple equation: More investment = a better end result As in many things in life, you get what you pay for. If […]
