Should you trust a web development company?
WARNING: What you should know before you commit to a web development agency... Do you have time for the stress and hassle of having several different agencies working on your marketing? As a full design agency, FDC does it all, thanks to one highly-skilled, capable, close-knit team. Spot the basic differences between us and a one-trick web development agency...

Dale Moreton, managing director, FDC

Ten Ways to Reduce your website bounce rate
Are you aware of what bounce rate is all about? You might find this less important on your part however it is essential that you monitor this because in maintaining a website, you have to reduce your bounce rate accordingly. If you want more visitors coming to your site than leaving here are a few things to do:

Simon Murphy, Chocolate Lime

7 Steps to driving traffic from twitter to your website
You probably have heard about Twitter because of its popularity nowadays but are you aware that you can make use of Twitter to drive traffic to your website? You might be thinking that this is just a plain social networking site, however aside from using it to communicate with people you can use this as a tool to get more traffic.

Simon Murphy, Chocolate Lime

Who doesn't like a freebie?
Free resources on the internet that I couldn't do without.

Clare Rogers, Medden Website Design

A Guide to Choosing Colors for Your Brand
One of the key elements of building a strong brand is color selection. Every color has a different feel and various associations.

Dmitry Fadeye, UsabilityPost, ib3 Limited

Drupal vs Joomla vs Wordpress
An introduction to the three leading open-source content management systems and an analysis of their strengths and weaknesses.

Andy Pearson, White Fuse

SEO Marketing for Social Networks
Building links and marketing on Social Networks/Blogs is now very IMPORTANT. In the last 2 years social media/blogs/networks have allowed real people to spread the word and link to your web site - e.g. someone says 'have a look at this site' on Facebook, then there's a good chance their friends will see this as a recommendation and visit the site. (Facebook, like it or hate it, has 400 million users now and will grow and grow). Even if they don't visit your site, the free link is there.

The Agent Mo, Digit@l Idiom Web Design (UK)

Harnessing the Power of Popular News Stories
In these days, underestimating the power of the news media is a very dangerous thing to do. Consumers have more access to the news now than they ever have before what with television, radio, internet and the basics of word of mouth. With so much access to this material, popular news stories or those that are particularly interesting/distressing spread like wildfire, soon being the thing that everyone is talking about.

simplewebhosting.co.uk, simplewebhosting.co.uk

The ‘3 Click Rule’ Fact or myth?
There are a few things one must consider when reviewing ones website. Think about whether your website is working for you and if you are getting realistic conversion rates. If not, there are various points worth considering, one being the ‘3 click rule’.

David Plant, Moirae Creative Agency

An Essential On-Site SEO Checklist
Before launching any new site there are certain SEO boxes that must be ticked to ensure that google will greet your site with open arms. ‘On-site’ SEO refers to what you can do directly to your site to make it more easily indexed by search engines.

Alex Peterson, Pixel Air Web Design

Ways to make your website successful - 1. Code it Cleanly
Want your website to work - then create it using clean code.

Clare Rogers, Medden Website Design

12 Step Guide To A Successful Business Blog
What should you be doing to make your business blogging successful.

Colin Hardie, Ubisan Limited

How to Grow Your Google Authority
Google needs to see that you are an authority on whichever keywords you want to rank well for. Here's some ideas on how to achieve this.

Colin Hardie, Ubisan Limited

How to use Twitter for business
If used properly, Twitter can be a great marketing tool for businesses of all sizes. This article describes some ways that it works.

Colin Hardie, Ubisan Limited

Basic Website Optimisation - 6 things anyone can do
If your website is nowhere on Google, it needs a bit of work. Thankfully, there are quite a few straightforward SEO tasks you can do yourself.

Colin Hardie, Ubisan Limited

Great coverage for new Bah Humbugs website
Intune built and launched a brand new online sweetshop for Bah Humbugs an old fashioned sweet shop in the North Yorkshire market town of Masham selling nostalgic sweets from yesteryear, and the business and its fantastic new website have already received great coverage in the press, including the Yorkshire Post.

Rory ffoulkes, THE IDEA BURO

Social Media
Social media has exploded on to the scene in the past couple of years with user generated content and instant interaction forcing site owners to re-think both their site’s content and how they communicate with their audience.

Manuel Bana, Immersive Media

Email Marketing
Building a list of email addresses is a relatively cheap method of getting your product/ service in front of your target audience.

Manuel Bana, Immersive Media

Directories
Although their thunder has been stolen by the search engines, directories are still a great source of both traffic and incoming links for SEO.

Manuel Bana, Immersive Media

Link Juice
Link Juice - This term describes the authority passed from one site to another through a link.

Manuel Bana, Immersive Media