Online Business Startup Blog
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Launching Your Website
In this video/blog, I'm going to be giving you my top tips for when you get around to launching your website. I’ll be covering a number of topics including when is the best time to launch your website, how to test your website thoroughly and creating a contingency plan for lengthy projects.
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What Happens if My Web Developer Gets Hit By a Bus?
In this blog this morning, I'm going to be answering a question, what happens if my web designer gets hit by a bus? Okay so, it's unlikely they probably are going to get hit by a bus. But interestingly, since the recession kicked in, it was one of the most commonly asked questions of me and my team, from 2007-2008 onwards.
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Setting Expectations After Launching Your Website
In this article I'm giving you my tips about how to set customer expectations post launching your website.
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Content Creation - What To Expect From Your Web Developer
In this article I'm going to explain what to expect from your web design agency and what they're going to be doing for you.
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Finding Inspiration from Other Websites
In this blog I'm going to give you my top tips on how to find inspiration in other websites. As well as discuss feature sets to give your website developer.
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Here are my Reasons why you shouldn’t use WordPress!
This blog post is going to be controversial. I'm going to be talking about my reasons why you shouldn't use WordPress. Okay, so I'm going to backtrack ever so slightly from that. The first reason is a bit of a soft touch one, but when you're going in to meet a web developer or designer for the first time, you should leave it up to recommend the chosen CMS platform which they use. The reason behind that is because they've probably built 100's of websites over their time as a web developer, and they will know best what solution matches up with the problems that your business is facing. So if you just march straight into the room and tell them that you want a WordPress website, you might be shooting your foot because that might not be the best solution for you. It might just be that you need to give that developer the opportunity to maybe suggest some alternative solutions to you, which might work better for your business.
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Bespoke Design versus Website Themes
Here are my top tips for considering bespoke design versus using an off-the-peg theme for website development. I will discuss the features and benefits of using both, discuss how they will impact on your core values and branding of your website. I will also introduce the KISS principles and the 7- Second Rule in terms of website design to get you thinking about how your potential customers will be interacting with your website.
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How Much Does a Website Cost?
In this blog post I'm going to be answering the question, “How much does it cost to have a website built? Looking at everything from domain hosting to support fees and up-front costs. The answer is, “Free to expensive and everything in between!”
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Be Realistic About The Feature Set For Your Website
Here I'm going to be giving you my top tips for choosing the correct and realistic feature set for your websites. I will be discussing which Content Management System (CMS) platform to choose, taking a phased approach to development and how to handle extra feature requests.
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How to Find a Great Website Design Agency
This afternoon, I'm going to be giving you my top tips for finding a great web design agency. This as we know, as business owners, is one of the hardest things to do because there are so many complexities and technical issues surrounding getting websites online. From registering your domains, installing SSL certificates, to what CMS platform do you use, and all sorts of different things in between. Not only do you have your own preconceived ideas about what it takes to get a website built, but also your web developers, whoever you go and put a quotes request out to, they're going to have their own ideas about what they think you should be doing as well. Hopefully I'm going to give you a few tips on how you can get the most out of the freelancer or web design agency which you choose.
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