by Bright Sea Media | Jun 20, 2018 | Blogging, Blogs, SEO, Web Design For Authors, Website Costs
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...
by Bright Sea Media | Feb 26, 2018 | Social Media
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...
by Bright Sea Media | Feb 2, 2018 | Domain Names, Web Design, Web Design For Authors
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...
by Bright Sea Media | Jan 25, 2018 | Business Websites, Google, Mobile Websites, Responsive Web Design, SSL, Web Design, Web Design For Authors
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...
by Bright Sea Media | Jan 22, 2018 | Browsers, Hosting, Page load speed, Web Design, Web Page Layout, Website Costs
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...
by Bright Sea Media | Jan 7, 2018 | Google, Hosting, SEO, SSL, Web Design, Website Costs
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...
by Bright Sea Media | Jan 3, 2018 | Business Websites, Web Design
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...
by Bright Sea Media | Dec 17, 2017 | Email
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...
by Bright Sea Media | Dec 11, 2017 | Browsers, Google, Hosting, SEO, SSL, Web Design
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...
by Bright Sea Media | Nov 11, 2017 | Responsive Web Design, Web Design, Web Page Layout
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...
