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4 Trends In Website Development for 2018

We take a look at the top 4 requests for websites in 2018…

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Your website and the GDPR compliance – a practical checklist

We provide some guidance for businesses to follow to help them work towards making their website more compliant with the GDPR Data Protection regulations that become enforceable after 25th May 2018.

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Brief a Website Redesign Better with Google Analytics

Three ways that you can use Google Analytics to make a website brief better.

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why is my new website not showing on Google?

Got a new website but it’s not showing on Google?

There are 6 common reasons that could be to blame why your new website isn’t showing up in a Google search. A regular topic of calls we receive in the studio is one that starts with the sentence ‘We’ve had a new website built by someone but it’s just not showing up when we search for it on … Continue reading Got a new website but it’s not showing on Google?

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Copywriting: the key to good web content (part 1)

It’s worth starting with a fundamental piece of information to establish the terms used in this article are fully understood. Copy (copywriting) is content. Content is a piece of communication that uses text to explain something – whether it’s explaining a solution to a problem you have or conveying some news. It’s actually about selling. … Continue reading Copywriting: the key to good web content (part 1)

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How do I speed up a slow Wordpress website?

Top 10 tips to speed up a badly-behaving WordPress website

WordPress – the world’s most popular and widely-used website platform. It brings with it so many benefits for businesses and website owners large and small. The design can be fully customised to suit your business and there’s a myriad of plugins offering excellent and useful functions available which is all wrapped in a mobile-friendly environment. It’s … Continue reading Top 10 tips to speed up a badly-behaving WordPress website

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Who really owns your domain name?

Who really owns your website domain name?

One of the most common situations we encounter each week managing business and individuals’ websites is trying to understand where their website domain name is registered, where it’s hosted and more importantly who has control over it. What this inevitably uncovers is something of a silent problem bubbling away under the surface poised to strike just … Continue reading Who really owns your website domain name?

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website designer Leighton Buzzard

Web developers: your dev sites are a hack threat

As a web developer, one of the best practice methods when maintaining or updating a website is to create a development version – and not to work on the live site. There are many reasons why this brings benefits. From design tweaks and testing of new functionality through to trying concept ideas without it affecting … Continue reading Web developers: your dev sites are a hack threat

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Colour me Bad knowing the difference between CMYK, Pantone & RGB

Colour me bad(ly)

A basic guide to what colour references to use and where, to avoid misunderstandings and, more importantly, unexpected results

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Browser response codes and what they mean

Gain knowledge of the most common errors that occur when loading a web browser and the meaning of browser response codes

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Your Wordpress website will soon need an SSL

Your WordPress website will soon need an SSL certificate

Using Wordpress? Quick heads-up, it’s time to get SSL certified, here are the main reasons why…

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Does Google hate your new website?

You’ve launched your new website, but two weeks later, you log into Google Analytics and find that your visitors from search engines – especially Google – have dropped by 50%. Where did it all go wrong?

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Website designer Leighton Buzzard Matthew Craft

Our latest apprentice qualifies

Passing the apprenticeship with ease, we’re delighted to announce that Matthew Craft will be joining the full time Aubergine team as a qualified web developer

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Redesigning a new Wordpress theme

Redesigning a WordPress website without having to rebuild it.

A significant benefit of having your website running on a Wordpress custom design means that you can get an experienced web designer and developer to create that smart, new look for your website without completely taking the engine out.

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top 10 typical social media mistakes part 2

Avoid basic social media & website mistakes part 2

We conclude the article with the remaining five basic social media & website mistakes, finishing at no.1 and the reason for writing the post having borne witness to countless small businesses make these fundamental errors needlessly.

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Top 10 typical social media and website mistakes part 1

Avoid basic social media & website mistakes part 1

We highlight the all-too common mistakes businesses make when embarking on their social media marketing campaign and provide some basic tips to avoid falling foul of these errors

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Best practice domain name registration

Best practice approach when registering a new domain name

It’s an ever-increasing problem – what domain name do you register for a new business? Or rather, what’s left to register that’s either not already being used or being cybersat

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