There are all sorts of website that will run SEO, accessibility and other tests on your website. But none of them actual report back what people really think about your site. One service I’ve been using for a while is the fivescondtest from usabilityhub. There are two ways to get the tests: Pay for them. [...]

Posted in July 2011

A short post this one because all that needs to be said is embraced by a truly awful website. One would have hoped that a large multinational company would know better. But they don’t. So three cheers for the xerox real business website (if you can be bother for the thing to load). If you [...]

Posted in July 2011

Many small business (and large come to that) outsource. Instead of employing staff they contract out cleaning, bookkeeping, marketing , delivery and so on. Outsourcing is also very common for websites. Very few companies can afford to employ full time developers so they happily pay someone to do it for them.  But buyer beware, just [...]

Posted in October 2010

Do you worry if your site is performing as well as is could? Do you know how well it converts, why visitors leave or which pages just don’t work? All too often you can’t see the problems because you know your site too well. You miss the obvious mistakes and just can’t understand why people [...]

Posted in May 2010

Do you own your website? Are you sure? Have you checked your registration details? Have you got a back up of the website on CD? Do you have access to the server? Do you know who your registrar and host are? Do you know what to do when your host goes out of business and [...]

Posted in July 2008

I don’t really like paying for things. Actually, that’s not quite true, I’ll pay for things if I need to but I’d rather get it for free (or at least at a discount price). Some of the best free stuff comes off the internet so rather than pay for some expensive software, why not do [...]

Posted in June 2008

I like being outside in the fresh air. In fact most of my holidays are spend wandering various countries around the world. But there are occasions when I need to communicate with the rest of the world. And a mobile phone or a PDA helps. The problem is, many websites don’t work too well on [...]

Posted in June 2008

There are certain topics and concepts that keep cropping up during discussions about search engine optimisation (SEO). One of these is the use of metatags. Let’s get one thing clear, there is no SEO advantage in the use of metatags – the search engines may index their contents but they won’t help to improve your [...]

Posted in May 2008

An question was asked recently on the Cre8asite forum about some of the Acronyms used relation to search engines. It made me think again about the terminology I use daily and realize that not everybody speaks the same language when it comes to the subject of SEO. Anyway, have a look at the thread to [...]

Posted in April 2008

Do you use forms on your website? Are they the only way to get to the content? Even a simple dropdown list of categories will stop the indexing robots in their tracks. Matt Cutts offers some advice on how to unlock your content and allow the spiders to do their business: Solved: another common site [...]

Posted in April 2008