Is your website helping you to grow your brand?

Posted in: web design- May 12, 2012 No Comments

I often want to check out new designers for fashion website for women over 40. The problem is, many of them are making it VERY hard for me to do so. Their websites are made to look edgy and modern, but in the process they have forgotten about usability, speed and search engines and the [...]

Essentials for creating a good free website

Posted in: web design- Oct 12, 2009 No Comments

No doubt there are lots of free applications and free website tools available these days to create a good website…. if you know what you are doing. Too often many of these websites look cheap and unprofessional or don’t have any of the essentials that make a website successful. So which things are key if [...]

What is the difference between ProntaCMS and WordPress?

Posted in: web design, web strategy- Oct 02, 2009 No Comments

There are many ways to create a website these days. I have done extensive research and I currently use only 2 software applications for all my websites: ProntaCMS and WordPress. Both have their pros and cons. I thought it would be helpful to highlight the similarities, pros and cons of the 2 options and who [...]

Why a wordpress site is good for your business

Posted in: web design- Mar 20, 2009 No Comments

In my previous article “Why I think that template based websites are a good idea” I discussed the possibility of creating a website from a well constructed template or wordpress theme. Using a template (or a theme as it is called in WordPress) is especially useful when you choose to build a dynamic site with [...]

Why I think that template based websites are a good idea

Posted in: web design, website templates- Mar 17, 2009 No Comments

People may be surprised that I also promote templates on this website. Would that not cause less business for me? Well, in some cases yes, but let me first go into more detail on why I think templates can be helpful for businesses.

Best clean and functional wordpress themes

Posted in: web design, website templates- Mar 15, 2009 No Comments

As I was looking for a new wordpress theme for the creation of a new website, I did a thorough investigation of the best wordpress themes for business websites. I focussed mainly on cms style websites for small businesses, magazine style website for resources sites and portfolio websites. As I like a clean style and [...]

20 things to check before buying a wordpress theme

Posted in: web design, website templates- Mar 15, 2009 4 Comments

A premium wordpress theme can be an enormous timesaver when you want to have a high quality website  up and running quickly. But make sure that you know what you want to achieve with your site before you buy. Otherwise you may end up having to do a lot more modifcations than you expected (or [...]

The process of creating a website

Posted in: web design- Feb 08, 2009 No Comments

Do you have ideas for a good website but don’t know where to start about getting one? Then this website can help you get started. What are the steps involved in getting a new website?

How to achieve your online goals in 2009

Posted in: web design- Jan 22, 2009 2 Comments

The start of a new year is a good time to reflect and set your goals for the upcoming year. Now you may have done this before and you may have been disappointed that so few of these goals were actually achieved. So how can we set goals that can be accomplished? If you can [...]

How to save costs when creating a website?

Posted in: web design- Jan 02, 2009 No Comments

What determines the price of a website? Well, the principle is simple the more hours your web developer spends on a website the more it will cost. So what do we spend those hours on and how can you minimise the cost of creating a website? To illustrate, let’s go through the various steps of [...]