Website design in St Helens Merseyside, Liverpool, Warrington, Cheshire and Wigan Lancashire.
Does My Business Need A Website?
[last updated Jan 2017] A question that most business owners have asked themselves in the past is "does my business need a website?". If you'd have asked yourself that question 15 years ago or even 5 years ago the answer would have been dependant on what type of business you were in. Today however, I [...]
What kind of website do I need?
It seems like everyone is all of a sudden "A Web Designer" everybody knows someone down at the pub or a friends brother who can put a website together in exchange for a few quid or a couple of pints. So what is the difference between different web designs? Why pay a web designer to [...]
How To Redesign A Website And Not Lose Your Ranking
I speak to so many business owners that desperately need their website redesigned but are terrified of losing their existing rank on Google, Bing and other search engines. Without causing alarm, they're right to be concerned. I've witnessed websites that have previously ranked well on Google simply fall out of the search results following a [...]
What is Flat Web Design?
You may have heard the term "flat design" and wondered what it was. Well before I tell you let me confuse you even more. Flat web design is the follow on trend from skeuomorphic web design. Confused? Good! In a nutshell, Skeumorphic design is a term used to describe the period of web design / [...]
Choosing a Web Designer
Choosing the right designer is critical to your online success. Lets look at the things to consider. Firstly, in selecting a shortlist of suitable web designers don't pick one from the sponsored listings in Google, Why? Simply because these are paid listings, it tells you nothing of the skills that the web designer has in [...]
Cheap Web Design
I'm often approached by new start or smaller businesses who simply don't have the budget to have a website designed for them. Very often these people resort to using one of the cheap website building tools sold by the cheap hosting companies or worse, they are with 1&1 or similar and have had terrible customer [...]
Google Engage
Gwiz Web Design St Helens are pleased to announce that we are now members of the Google Engage programme. This initiative is run by Google to educate website owners to the benefits of Google Adwords through agencies who provide web design and SEO services to small and medium size businesses. Despite a large part of [...]
Honesty as a marketing tool in Web Design
Web design offers the creative licence to make the smallest business look like a multi national PLC. A good web designer can employ all manner of smoke and mirrors to give any client the image they want, but is this lack of honesty always the best practice? If pushed I'd say the most crucial elements [...]
One page websites or microsites
What is a Microsite? A Microsite is a small website usually focused on a particular product, service or geographical location. You may have seen car manufacturers use microsites to launch a new model. Usually its a flashy affair full of stunning graphics and snazzy sounds. You'll also notice that its heavily linked from the main [...]
Cookie Law
You may have noticed a huge amount of annoying pop ups on websites that you have visited lately. This is due to the fact that the deadline for complying with the ICO cookie law in the UK was 25th May 2012. The law actually came into effect 12 months ago but the ICO granted a [...]
Google Venice Update – Local Search SEO
Google announced another algorithm update a few weeks ago under the code name Venice. The update is rumoured to include 40 algorithm changes not all of which affect local SEO but none the less that is the biggest news story to come out of the Venice release. You may have noticed that when you perform a [...]
Why does my business need a blog?
Why your business should blog. Over the past few years Blogging has grabbed the attention of marketing professionals around the world and has become an essential tool for businesses large and small. 'What exactly is a blog?' I hear you ask, well stick around and I'll explain what a blog is, why your business should [...]
QR codes, What are they and can they help my website SEO?
QR Code QR codes it seems are a new technology, it may surprise you then to learn that they were invented 8 years ago by a company called Denso Wave in Japan which is a subsidiary of Toyota. It's perhaps common knowledge that Toyota have been at the forefront of lean production since the early [...]
Websites for Local Business
Websites for local business, something most business owners hadn't considered before the recession hit. A local business without a website in todays world is like a telephone without a number. It's sad in a way that progress has changed the way that people shop. Retail parks that stand where our industrial buildings once stood, have [...]
Free Website Design
Some companies offer free website design Yes they do, You're in business I guess? What do the words "Free Website Design" say to you? Exactly! There's a catch. And the catch just isn't monetary either. So there are companies out there who will allow you to design your own website free of charge. Why? Simple [...]
Website design – Less is more
Cast your mind back a few years, can you remember when pretty much every website design had a flash intro with a loading message. You'd have a little text link saying "skip"? Thankfully the web designers trend to flaunt technical prowess has now largely subsided as the big players (and the enlightened) realised that the [...]
Choosing a Domain Name After The EMD Update
This original article was published on 15th Jun 2011. Following the recent Exact Match Domain update by Google the article was edited on 5th October 2012 You may already have a domain name, you may just have hit lucky and picked the right one, You may be considering a new website design or simply [...]