In the March 2012 edition of .Net Magazine, the worlds best selling web design and dev magazine, I am lucky enough to have taken part in the “design build off”. My design brief was to create a mock-up of an Intranet for anything of choice, from myself to a bluechip company. I decided to base [...]
Continue Reading →Selling online is not easy normally, and even less so in this economic down turn. But with the use of 10 simple seo secrets to online selling you can not just improve your online sales by a few percent but by a huge amount. It’s About The Product! Just because you spent hundreds or thousands [...]
Continue Reading →WordPress is by far an away the most popular of Blogging Platforms and come to think of it Content Management Systems (CMS) overall. Say “wordpress” to any website owner and they will usually turn around saying oh that’s for blogging – this means for the most part as an unscientific metric that wordpress is quite [...]
Continue Reading →I want to share a quick story with you about the Myth of the Landing Page. I want to dispel the myth that you only need to SEO your homepage and landing pages. Each month I receive a number of emails from small business owners saying that they have optimised their landing pages but they still are [...]
Continue Reading →Lets you and I take a imaginary trip, on this trip you are the owner of a small business with an e-commerce website looking to improve and maintain the growth of website traffic and ultimately revenue. You want to really push the company forward but are unsure where to start with optimising your website to put it [...]
Continue Reading →Ok, look it’s not often I will shamelessly plug my web design and graphic design services and website without a good reason, today is no different. Today I’ve release what would technically be v9.7 of andykinsey.co.uk The release is an iteration of the former site based upon user testing and feedback. The new site offers [...]
Continue Reading →Yesterday, Google+ released the long awaited Google+ Pages for Business … whoop! But it was more of a damp squib than a celebration, as people began to create them we soon realised that something wasn’t right. The pages were being created but they look exactly like normal profile pages. Here is my own Google+ Profile [...]
Continue Reading →One of the things I love about my job, both as a marketer and designer, is that I get sent little sneak previews of websites being made. One which I’ve kept my eye on recently has been the BBC homepage makeover, they are moving from what can only be described as dull and boring to [...]
Continue Reading →Have you ever signed up to one of those online dating sites? It took me a couple of hours one wet Sunday afternoon to complete the profile, and in the time it took me to run to the loo, the site searched for my closest matches. Much to my disappointment, it found only one – one match in [...]
Continue Reading →Over the past few years there have been many logo redesigns, from twitter to hotmail to microsoft office. But have they all been a success? or have they flopped and gone pretty much unnoticed? Below are some examples of logo redesigns, which do you think have mad the service and company appear improved or better [...]
Continue Reading →One of my more common conversations with Website and Blog owners, regardless of industry or niche, is how to encourage readers to engage and leave comments on blogs. It is a common problem that not many blog posts have lots of comments. It is even more common to find if there are comments they are [...]
Continue Reading →If you are an online retailer you no doubt will be aware of the value of marketing your website in the correct way to drive sales and loyalty. However there are several simple ideas that are overlooked when it comes to marketing your business in the minds of your user. Focus on Customer Service By [...]
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