Website Design

Web Design Tip: Writing Compelling Web Copy

Web Design Tips, Article One, the first in a series of articles packed full of web design tips aimed at all people who own or maintain a website. Copy means the text that you put on the page and writing compelling copy is a vital part of designing and building your website. With poor copy, [...]


Web Design Tips: Series Introduction

Last week I wrote an article highlighting 5 killer errors that website owners can make and in response to some of the comments asking for more detailed information, I have decided to write a series of positive web improvement articles. The series is not aimed only at the technical experts who create the websites themselves, [...]


5 Fatal Web Design Flaws or How to kill your website in five easy steps

1. Fill Your Site with Loads of Boring Text (often because your SEO told you to) Writing loads and loads of text that doesn’t help your visitor is one great way to ruin your online business. A sea of text that doesn’t give any valuable information is sure to put your visitors off. It’s true [...]


Your Staffs Web Designer’s Number One Tip: Register Your Own Name

“If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it,” says the Baz Luhrman song of 1999, ‘Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)’, which is based on the article by Mary Schmich. As a professional web developer in Staffordshire, my one tip has to be, ‘Register your own domain name’. Of [...]


Website Design Success Lies Within a Partnership

For your new website design and development project to be a success you need to be a part of it, from day one all the way to the day your new website goes live (and beyond really). The most successful projects I have worked on have been ones where the client was actively involved throughout [...]


Rake Mark Website Design – Where Did Our Name Come From?

We have been asked recently where our company name came from, so we have uploaded a page on our main rakemark.com website but also thought a quick blog article would give you all a good insight to our brand and company. Rake Mark is a website design company based in Stafford, Staffordshire and is owned [...]


Google makes websites with news, blog and forum articles top dog

Ok so we all know about online marketing, SEO, SEF, keywords, Meta data and numerous other acronyms that if you are anything like me drive me totally insane, but are we (that being the royal we) taking full advantage of the tools and platforms that we have readily available to us already. Long gone are [...]


So you want a Content Management System?

The purpose o f this blog article is to try and explain some of the differences (both functionally and cost) of having a CMS (Content Management System) vs Non Content Managed on your website. Having a Web Developer /Web Designer Create a System that allows you, the non technical user, a method to update your [...]


Asking for Testimonials for Your Website

Testimonials for your website are a powerful marketing tool. Your website is a great place to advertise the wonderful things your customers might say about you. Testimonials are great way to differentiate your company website from your competition. If you are particularly customer service driven or you have the widest selection of products then this [...]


Setting Up a Google Account

Setting up an account is simple, but if you are still having a few problems then here are some pointers to help you on your way: Open a Browser of your choice and go to web address https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount Fill in the details, accept the terms and conditions and create your new account. Google will send [...]