What’s the big deal with Website Design? You might be thinking, “It’s just a bunch of pixels and code, right?” Well, it’s a bit more than that. Website design is like the interior decorating of the internet. It’s all about creating an inviting and engaging space for your digital visitors. Colors, Fonts, and more… Picture…
If you are starting out as a new business, you will have spent some time considering what your new company name will be. Will you trade under your own name? Or will you decide on a totally different name for your business? This is usually the first thing to settle on for a new business…
I often suggest to clients to include reviews or testimonials on their websites. I think it is a good way of showcasing your talents, ethos and how you work with customers. At the time of writing this, my Testimonials page is in the top 5 most viewed pages for my website along with my Homepage…
The rebranding of Joanna Craig Website Design into the new Jo&Co! I’d forgotten just how tricky it can be to design your own website! Let alone that I had decided to change my company name as well. But here I am and it has been a good 6 months to release this into the world.…
So I was asked recently by a friend how I go about starting on a website design. A lot of what I do is second nature to me now as I have been designing websites for over 15 years, but I thought it might be useful to explain in more detail, the elements that I…
A lot of my client use Google Analytics on their websites. This is a helpful part of my SEO package that allows visits to the website to be tracked and provides information about where the website visits come from, how long users look at pages, which pages and a whole heap of other clever stuff.…
So I am very lucky in that a lot of my clients have remained with me for a good few years and come back to me when they need to make some significant changes to their website. An example of this is Lighthouse Mediation – a family mediator based in Norfolk. Nicky became a client…
For this blog post, I thought Iād do something a little more unusual and provide some insight into what an average day looks like at JCHQ! My days are often quite varied but always begin with an email catch up. I try not to get sucked into answering emails outside of business hours unless it…
Keeping WordPress updated is very important. Why? Because this is what will help to keep your website safe and secure. I monitor and maintain all the websites that are hosted with me as part of my hosting package as standard. So its not something that my hosted clients need to worry about. But if you…
Making sure your images load in a reasonable amount of time within your website is important both for your users looking at the website and also for search engine reasons too. When you have the ability to add images to your website yourself, using software like WordPress as I choose to use for my websites,…
