For this blog post, I thought I’d 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,…
So I thought I’d write a blog post about the topic of ‘browser cache’ as it is something that crops up quite a lot in my daily life and so it makes sense to explain things and have a reference document to help anyone who hhasn’t heard of a ‘cache’. So here goes! We’ll start…
YES! Is the short answer! If you are a local business then having a Google My Business account is really important and every business should have one. It is free and just needs a bit of time to set up and then can work really well for you. What is it? So when you need…
MJ Harris Flooring rebrands to Harris Carpets and Flooring I have worked on five websites for Matt Harris of Harris Carpets and Flooring, Buckingham over the past 12 years or so. Most recently Matt was making some changes to his products and services and also changing his company name and identity. Matt had had…
From May 2021, Google is going to use a set of factors that it is calling ‘Core Web Vitals’ as part of its ranking signals. These factors are based on the user experience of a website and is likely to impact on the ranking of websites depending on its assessment of the signals. These factors…
Whenever I design a new website for a company this is one of the first questions I ask – whether they want to include a Blog or News section. WordPress was originally designed for just that purpose and so it is easy and straight-forwards to include for any new small business website. But the general…
What on earth is a digital asset I hear you ask! And a good question! So this is a term used to describe all the elements connected to a website, that you need to be aware of and know how to access. When you’re starting up a business there is a lot to set up…
I was approached by Paul of Crosbie’s Direct Cleaning Company to design and build his new website. Paul and I had worked together on previous projects in the past and it was great to be working on his new venture. Paul offered three very clear cleaning services to his customers and it was really important…