There is much to think about when setting up a website. First you need to decide on your website’s target audience (age, socio-economic class, expected occupations, computer literacy etc.). Then you can decide on the aims and objectives of your website. What do you...
WordPress websites are often considered search engine-friendly for several reasons: SEO-Friendly Permalinks: WordPress allows users to customize the structure of their URLs (permalinks), making it easy to create keyword-rich and search engine-friendly URLs for each...
A brochure website is a type of website that serves as an online version of a traditional printed brochure. It is a simple, informative, and static website that typically presents essential information about a business, organization, product, service, or individual in...
Hosting is essential for your website because it provides the infrastructure and resources necessary to make your site accessible on the internet. When someone wants to visit your website, their web browser sends a request to the hosting server where your website's...
Choosing website hosting servers local to your geographic region can provide several advantages for achieving better coverage on Google. Here are some reasons why: Reduced Latency: When your website is hosted on servers located closer to your target audience, it...
Web design design trends move forward very quickly and you may find that your website is beginning to look a bit dated visually. In the context of WordPress, a "retheme" refers to the process of giving a website a new visual design or theme while retaining its...
What is a Website? A simple website should be regarded as an online brochure. Visitors can find your site if you provide the URL (www.mywebsite.com) or through a search on Google. Visitors can then browse the site and view the information you provide. We often call...
Social media pages are a good way of marketing your website. If you have any social media pages such as Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, it is important that you have a link from your website to your social media pages. There are two main ways of doing this: 1) Social...
Which domain name should I choose for my website? Every website needs a domain name. It is unique address that computers (and human visitors) use to find your website on the internet. A typical domain name looks like this: www.steyningwebdesign.com Alternatively the...
When should I upgrade my website? Technology moves forward quickly in web design. New design trends and methodologies emerge, and older sites begin to lag behind and look dated. We still have some sites that were created over ten years ago which were 'state of the...
Page load speed is a complex area. A number of factors affect load time: 1 - Device 2 - Browser 3 - Internet connection 4 - Type of hosting (low cost or expensive) 5 - Type of development tool (HTML, PHP, WordPress etc) 6 - Number and size of images on page 7 -...
SSL changes - introduction In October 2017 the launch of Chrome 62, Google's browser raised the importance of protecting website content with SSL encryption (HTTPS). The general idea is to make ‘non-secure’ websites more noticeable to web page visitors. Initially, the...
Web designers Bright Sea Media Ltd, based in Steyning, West Sussex would like to wish all our clients a very Happy and Prosperous 2018. We look forward to supporting our existing clients with their website needs and to welcome new clients requiring a high quality web...
Hosting providers usually offer an domain-related email account. They way these work depends on the host and type of email service they provide. The email interface of domain related email addresses provided by low cost 'share' hosting are often very simple and not...
Lately, there has been a lot of news on the web about SSL certificates. SSL Certificates provide secure, encrypted communications between a website and an internet browser. You can tell if a site has an SSL certificate or not because it has a ‘s’ in the http:// part...
In the web design industry, web design methodologies and technologies move forward very quickly. Every month there is something new to the market. WordPress releases several updates a year and theme developers are quick to add new gadgets. A website can begin to look...
Here’s an interesting question we sometimes get asked: I have a website and it has been running for a for a few years now and has a good ranking on Google. Can I change my domain name? It is possible, but not simple to change your domain. Any domain builds up a...
All authors NEED a website. But what should you put on your author website? And how can you encourage more visitors? This post provides a few marketing tips for authors. Take a look at this site that in many ways is a model site for an author: carolinedeacon.com...
STATISTICS ON A WEBSITE All statistics packages include a wealth of information about your site including: Page hits – the number of visitors your site receives Popular pages – the most looked-at pages Came from – the website from which people found your site Keyword...
Junk mail is always a problem if you display an email address on a website. SPAM robots (Spambots) roam the internet looking for email addresses to harvest. These email addresses are added to ‘mailing lists’ and the result is that you get inundated with junk mail....
A home page is a bit like a cover to a book. It displays a snapshot of what your website is about and links to the important sections and pages on the site. It also serves as a sort of main reference point. This is particularly important if a site has a lot of pages....
In the old days, many years ago, web designers used a technology called Flash to create animations on websites. Such animations were created by specialist Adobe Flash designers and embedded on a web page. Flash could create some lovely animated effects. Then Apple...
These days, users access the web using lots of different kind of devices with different screen sizes, resolutions, pixel density, etc. These include tablets, smart phones, TVs, desktop computers and laptops. Responsive web design allows you to have a single website...
Here’s a question we sometime get asked… One question: your templates seem to take quite a time to load compared to those offered by other web designers. Is that true? It’s a fact that some sites load faster than others. For example, simple HTML sites tend to load...
Questions we often get asked are ‘why does my website look different when I look at it on another computer?’ or ‘why does my website look different when I look at it on Safari (or any other browser)’? A common misconception about designing a web page is that it is...
No host is perfect, despite any claims they may make in their marketing materials. It is a fact of life that in any technology-based company, something can go wrong with the hosting server and a website can go down. There are any number of reasons why there is hosting...
So you have a freshly launched site and it’s nowhere to be seen on Google. How can that be? What’s going on? Google (and Google alone) decides which websites appear on its Search Engine Results Pages (SERPS) for any given search, and their positions. The simple fact...
A question we typically get asked is: I think the page would look more comfortable if the images were dropped down so that they are more central to the page, and the same goes for the Contact Page where the content could all sit on the page better a little lower down....
When we create a development site, we ask our clients to review the website’s progress on a temporary URL (address) and send us feedback. Occasionally, a client will report that odd things are happening on screen. Perhaps alignments are wrong, drop-down menus look...
How much does a website cost? There is no simple answer to this question. Websites come in all shapes and forms and do different things. It’s a bit like saying ‘How much does a house cost?’. The answer to this question is, ‘What sort of house do you want?' or 'What...
There is much to think about when setting up a website. First you need to decide on your website’s target audience (age, socio-economic class, expected occupations, computer literacy etc.). Then you can decide on the aims and objectives of your website. What do you...
WordPress websites are often considered search engine-friendly for several reasons: SEO-Friendly Permalinks: WordPress allows users to customize the structure of their URLs (permalinks), making it easy to create keyword-rich and search engine-friendly URLs for each...
A brochure website is a type of website that serves as an online version of a traditional printed brochure. It is a simple, informative, and static website that typically presents essential information about a business, organization, product, service, or individual in...
