If you're a Hertfordshire-based business looking for a local web designer, you have plenty of options. Which one should you choose? There are a number of factors to take into account. Have they been in business long? What work have they done on their portfolio? How much do they charge? (Always get quotes from different providers and compare them to make...
Brochure sites remain a vital asset to small businesses across the UK. They differ in general from online sales platforms, where retailers enable their visitors to make purchases through e-commerce systems. Instead, brochure websites perform a similar function to that of business print brochures. They drive interest and sales to your business, either through your physical retail outlet, your telesales reps, or through your online communication...
Are you starting a new business? Going through a rebrand? Want to update your online presence? If so, you're likely looking for a new website. Which means you'll need a web designer...
Here's a common occurrence here at Ratio7: The phone rings and we get someone asking about their plans to redesign their company website. We chat about it, and typically, they like what they hear. But more often than not, something like this will be said to us during the course of the conversation: “I'm really keen for us to redesign our website. I...
How does your web design make you feel? If you have had your existing design for some time you may feel confident about its status. You may feel it has worked well for you so there would be no point in changing it. However this isn’t the whole story. In some cases you might think you can ruin your hard...
If you spend some of each day on the internet, you will probably see lots of different websites promoting one thing or another. Not all of them are sales website – some are purely for informational purposes. However, if you want to sell goods or services online you will need to get a professional website that is able to bring...
Remember when you could design a website on your own and put it up on the web in a matter of minutes, let alone hours? In those early heady days of the internet it didn’t matter what it looked like, since everyone was still wowed by the idea you could have such a site. It goes without saying things have changed...
Are you frustrated by your existing web design? Did you think it would attract lots of visitors, only to find it did nothing of the sort? Do the visitors that do arrive on your site leave just as quickly? Whatever the nature of the problems you might currently have, there are usually solutions you can look into. Many people invest in...
Outsourcing seems to be one of the most frequently used words online today. Lots of things can and are outsourced by businesses on a daily basis. Are you outsourcing anything, and if not, should you be? Good examples of frequently outsourced services are web design, writing and virtual assisting. Different businesses have different requirements but they can very often save money...
Not if you have a good strong website. We’ve all read about the changes Google has made to its search algorithm over the past year or so. Last year caused a mass panic of website owners who saw the rankings of their websites disappear from sight in the search engine results. Google has announced more tweaks to its algorithm since that...