Website Usability – Part 2

Website Usability – Part 2

Following from the Website Usability Tips Part 1, posted a few days ago, here is part two.Remember, website usability is not just about the appearance of a website, but more importantly how your site performs and particularly, it gives emphasis to the experience of your visitors.In the design, build and with the ongoing maintenance and updating of your website, your visitors must always be...

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Website Usability Tips – Part 1

Website Usability Tips – Part 1

It is widely known in professional web design and web development circles that website usability is the most significant factor that influences website design, followed closely by SEO. Usually website usability is overlooked when designing a website. Either the designer has had little experience in it, or the client just doesn’t get it.   From a clients point of view, website design is...

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Why have a website?

Why have a website?

It is amazing to thing that still in the late part of 2010, many companies throughout the world today are operating their business with no website. Yes you did hear me right!  They either think that they don’t have the money to do it, it’s too hard to get something up or they just don’t understand the need for one.  They probably wont even see this post. If you know a business...

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Christmas Marketing Planning – Is your’s underway?

Christmas Marketing Planning – Is your’s underway?

You should be almost two months into planning for Christmas by now, according to Jason Kang, VP for US-based retailer Zazzle, “Christmas planning starts in June,” he says. “You want to be at your best. If you don’t have a plan for Christmas right now, work over the next couple of weeks and get one done.” Christmas is by far the busiest time of year for the retail sector. Coremetrics...

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1 in 4 High Street Shoppers Leaving Stores to Buy Online

There’s an interesting article on Internet Retailing about new research in to shoppers buying habits.  Shoppers coming out of large high street branches in London were quizzed, and it was found almost half of them came out empty handed and of those, around 25% planned to go online and purchase the product instead. It is an interesting quandary for multichannel retailers from a marketing...

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Status update on our CMS based websites…

At approximately 8am this morning (UK time) the CMS system that we provide to a number of our customers encountered a server configuration issue causing website performance to be sporadic at best and in some cases leaving the sites inaccessible.   This condition lasted for approximately 3.5 hours until our team was able to resolve the issue at approximately 11:30am and restore the system...

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