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Website Design & Development

08 Dec Colour Trends for the Web

Posted at 03:55h in Creativity, Design, E-commerce, Logos and Branding, Mobile, Website Design & Development

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Colour trends vary by genre: home decor, fashion, automotive and, not surprisingly, digital media. Like fashion, certain colours and colour combinations are often in or out, hip or passe'. Who can forget peach and teal from the 1980's or burgundy and hunter green from the 1990's? But, like fashion, certain colours and combinations gain new popularity because of their retro...

06 Dec Is Your Site Ready for Mobile?

Posted at 02:55h in Blog, Design, E-commerce, Magazines, Mobile, Website Design & Development

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Smartphones are ruling the technology roost. More than 2.5 billion will be sold worldwide between 2010-2015 and by next year, smartphones will be the most common form of mobile phone in use. This means a vast majority of your customers and web visitors will be visiting via their mobile phones and a computer. But is your website ready? If you go...

01 Nov WordPress SEO Plugins: Ratio 7's Top 10

Posted at 15:00h in Blog, Search Engine Optimisation, Website Design & Development

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Ratio7 loves Wordpress for clients, not just because it is user-friendly for designers, but because it is user-friendly for, well, users AND Google and other search engines love it. They also have handy little bits of code, called 'plugins' that are easy to install to customize your site. If you are a Ratio7 customer, we take care of these for...

01 Nov XML Sitemaps: Google Likes Them

Posted at 15:00h in Search Engine Optimisation, Website Design & Development

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Google XML Sitemap? Ugh. Running a small business involves managing thousands of details, many of which you don't know much about. Ratio7 understands that (we're a small business too!) and we have your back. Managing your Wordpress site is a science in and of itself and its most important purpose is to attract new customers. There is a lot of...

22 Oct Do you have any tips on how they should set up and run the website?

Posted at 10:39h in Website Design & Development

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Our advice here is: take what you do best and to it online. When people come to your shop, what they often want more than anything is your knowledge and experience. If you can give them the benefit of your wisdom on your website, you will be able to promote your pharmacy as THE place to go for reliable information...

22 Oct What should I consider before starting up a website?

Posted at 10:37h in Website Design & Development

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Keep it simple. One of the main mistakes people still make when planning their website is to dress to impress, to wow people into sitting up and taking notice. This is almost always a mistake. Your site is not there to say ‘Hey, look at me!’ but ‘How can I help?’ If people want to be entertained, they can turn...

15 Oct What can a business gain from a website?

Posted at 10:35h in Website Design & Development

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This is a sensible first question but what if you asked yourself the opposite one: What can my business loose by not having a website? No-one is quite sure when it happened, but sometime in the second half of the last decade the World Wide Web stopped feeling new and became simply ‘there’. Just another given. A fact of life...

01 Sep What's Your Website's Purpose?

Posted at 13:11h in Blog, Creativity, Design, E-commerce, Logos and Branding, Search Engine Optimisation, Website Design & Development

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Whether you are having a site built by scratch or doing a redesign of your existing site, it is really important to examine the reasons you have a website at all. Sound obvious? It isn't. If you look at your own favorite sites, you will find that they serve many different purposes. For a graphics team like Ratio7 to build...

01 Sep E-commerce and User Experience

Posted at 13:04h in Design, E-commerce, Website Design & Development

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If you have an online, e-commerce site or section to your site, there are things you can do to make it really work for you and generate more income than it currently is. Online shopping is all about a great UX (user experience). It must be super-easy, answer questions up front and make the check out experience should be...

01 Sep Online Forums: Get Readers Talking

Posted at 13:01h in Logos and Branding, Website Design & Development

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Back in the early days of the Internet, user groups were all the rage. Then social networking began and forums like Yahoo Groups seemed to take a backseat to these slick new sites like Facebook and MySpace. In reality, there are literally hundreds of thousands of member forums and they are a great way to create buzz and interact with...