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Looking beyond web design: Why web design must become one service amongst many

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 18/10/2011
Looking beyond web design: Why web design must become one service amongst many

The web design industry is very sensitive to the pikes and troughs of the economy, especially so for agencies and freelancers. If businesses are doing well and someone brings up the idea of refreshing their website, the consensus is often “Yes, we need that new website, pronto”. On the flip side, if there is a [...]

Half of web designers are not considering mobile users

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 01/08/2011
Half of web designers are not considering mobile users

According to research we recently conducted with the chaps at Design Shack, a lot of web designers are still not taking into account mobile web browsers. The survey of 500 web designers found that that only 50% are considering mobile web access when designing a new website. (If you think 500 doesn’t sound like a [...]

New Video Tutorial: Customising HostPay – Part 2

Posted by: Ben
Date posted: 14/10/2010
New Video Tutorial: Customising HostPay – Part 2

From our hotly anticipated video series on how to customise a HostPay template, i’m pleased to announce the release of the second installment. In this video you’ll find out how to create gradient images, change the background colours of page elements, changing bullet styles and also how to change button colours. In the third and [...]

New Video Tutorial: Customising HostPay – Part 1

Posted by: Ben
Date posted: 15/07/2010
New Video Tutorial: Customising HostPay – Part 1

Fresh from the Video production studio (Well, me and my laptop) is the first in a series of step-by-step video demonstrations taking you through the process of customising your HostPay template.

Top 40 list of lists 2010

Posted by: Ben
Date posted: 25/03/2010
Top 40 list of lists 2010

Last year we ran a blog post titled “Top 40 lists of lists” which got a lot of good feedback so we thought we would make it an annual event. Here is 2010′s top 40 list of lists.

6 great ways to ruin your website

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 12/03/2010
6 great ways to ruin your website

Here are a handful of sure fire ways to ruin the user experience for your visitors, increase your bounce rates and make sure you get very few returning visitors.

9 great GIMP tutorials for beginners

Posted by: Stu
Date posted: 08/02/2010
9 great GIMP tutorials for beginners

This post lists some of the best GIMP tutorials we have come across for beginners looking to flex their design muscles and learn something new and useful to apply to their designs and websites.

Interview: thewebdesignblog.co.uk’s Phil Matthews

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 03/12/2009
Interview: thewebdesignblog.co.uk’s Phil Matthews

We had a chat with freelance web designer Phil Matthews (www.twitter.com/philmatthews) about his recently launched UK web design blog www.thewebdesignblog.co.uk, the challenges of writing regular content, his thoughts on the web design trends we will see in 2010 and his tips for anyone looking to set up their own blog…

Web hosting guides

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 27/11/2009
Web hosting guides

Over the year we have been putting together a series of web hosting guides covering various aspects of managing a website in detail. Below are links to the current crop of PDF web hosting guides available completely free for anyone to download and use. Note: The links below all open a PDF.

Web designers/ developers: Integrating web hosting in to your existing services

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 25/11/2009
Web designers/ developers: Integrating web hosting in to your existing services

Being able to buy everything from one place is always an attractive proposition to clients who don’t want to have to shop around. If your core product is providing web services for small sites such as banners, logos, HTML emails etc you can easily integrate web hosting in to your product mix.

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