White Hat and Black Hat SEO Techniques Explained
Do what you need to do to win business BUT be CAREFUL!

Chris Horner, TOP PAGE SEO

Google +1 – Your entry to the SEO success.
The Better Your Site the Better Google +1 Is For You

Chris Horner, TOP PAGE SEO

Why Google Places is good for Business
Do you sell locally? Frustrated that big business marketing budgets have stopped your website getting to the top of Google? Tired of seeing national chains elbowing you off page one?

Chris Horner, TOP PAGE SEO

5 things to consider when choosing a web designer
Mark Palmer looks at the five things any client should consider when choosing a web designer or developer for a project.

Mark Palmer Design Ltd, Mark Palmer Design Ltd

Ten Reasons to Leave a Website
When creating a website it’s vitally important to put yourself in the shoes of a typical site visitor – the key part of launching a successful website is to make sure it appeals to the intended audience. Since your site says everything about your company, you need to get the message right. The following tips will help to ensure that you do not frustrate, irritate or alienate your potential clients.

Ardant Design, Ardant Design

Tips For A Beginner In Web Design
If you suddenly decide that you want to do something in order to help your business work, then I strongly recommend you to try web design...

Popa Bogdan, WebCreationUK

BING VS GOOGLE
Granted Google is a big player but if you forget about the others its as bad as leaving one of your children in the supermarket while you take the others home. Ook not that bad but still you shouldn't be leaving them out this article explains why.

Darren Galvin, Which Door Ltd

Flash vs HTML5. Is it game over for Adobe Flash?
The market seems to be moving away from Adobe Flash with Apple’s decision not to offer Flash support on iPad and iPhone devices. HTML5 now offers a means to incorporate as much animation as you would typically require in a web site without using Flash so why would any web designer continue to offer Flash support? Here’s our opinion on the advantages and disadvantages of using Adobe Flash in web design today.

Andrew Cox, Web Design London

SEO tips – How can I get more visitors to my web site?
This is a very popular question. There is a lot of work that can be done on-site to make sure that your web site is well designed and search-engine friendly but even once that’s done the real work begins.

Andrew Cox, Web Design London

Web design trends for 2011/2012
It’s important that your web site keeps up with the latest trends. If it doesn’t, your web site may soon look out of step. We’ve compiled a list for both web site owners and web designers of what we consider will be hot topics in 2012.

Andrew Cox, Web Design London

Top 10 Tips for a Social Media Strategy
A colleague asked us the other day what would be our top 10 tips for using social media as a marketing tool and it occurred to us that we hadn't blogged about social media for a while. Bob wanted to know why we felt social media was important and what its impact was on marketing, SEO (search engine optimisation), even website design and then the overall business. So we thought about this and here's our top 10.

Matthew Simmons, Snap Marketing

The Importance of a Well-Designed Brand
When setting up a new business, something that may not be near the top of your list is securing the help of a good designer or design agency, to help create the single element that can on its own make or break your company – your brand. But what is Brand? It is how people see your business – its image, its style, its culture – and a carefully designed brand can influence how prospective customers perceive you, which can in turn vastly impact on company sales and, ultimately, success.

Gemma Daniels at Hydra Creative Ltd, Hydra Creative Ltd

Optimising websites for mobile devices
More and more people are using their mobile devices to browse the web but there are sill many sites which are not equipped to respond to these demands and as such run slower or, even worse, crash. This means that people who want to visit these sites get frustrated and go elsewhere.

56 Degrees Design, 56 Degrees Design

Stuff the quality, I want it now!
My view of the throw away or quick fix society that has grown out of the seemingly constant emergence of new technology.

Peter Dean, Debayne Web Design

Responsive Web Design
An approach to answering the issues posed by the increasingly diverse range of screen sizes; resolutions and devices web designers have to cater for.

Stephen Brewin, ib3 Limited

Design Notes
An outline of the design principles used by White Rabbit Designs to ensure clear, uncomplicated and quick loading website pages

Richard Harvey, White Rabbit Designs

The importance of content
Quality, engaging and exciting content should be an integral part of any website design. No matter how glossy and shiny the website itself is, if its not using the right words to get the right message across to your customers, then you are taking a risk with your business.

Chocolate Lime, Chocolate Lime

5 Basics That Must Be Covered in SEO
Getting the basics right in Search Engine Optimisation is a must, all too often we want to run before we can walk when it comes to getting to the top of Google.

Rich Copley, Easybiz Sites

Facebook Fan Pages for Your Business
Facebook fan pages have become an essential weapon in the online promotion of business initially through their friends and family and subsequently through their existing and new customer base.

Chocolate Lime, Chocolate Lime

Bad design decisions disclaimer
One of the biggest challenges I have faced as a designer is –how do I stop a client making bad design decisions?

Stewart, Big S Design