Almost the end of 2013! A big thank you for all your support this year, it really is appreciated. I hope you have a lovely Christmas and my very best wishes for 2014. Sarah p.s. Hexagon will be closed over Christmas. I will be back in the office on Monday 6th January 2014. p.p.s. you might just have noticed… my new website is finally live, I hope you like it. …
Read in fullIf you spend any amount of time looking at websites, you use a browser. For the non-tech-savvy – your browser is the piece of software on your computer that you use to look at websites. Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Opera are what are termed the ‘big five’, but there are others too. Why are you bothered? As a website designer, I commonly come across people that are using…
Read in fullThis sort of overtook me without realising it… Hexagon is now officially 5 years old! There is, I’m afraid, a rather complete lack of birthday cake (it’s a bit useless online anyway). But I’d like to say a big thank you to all my clients, colleagues, friends and blog/newsletter readers for all your support. An especial thank you also to my Mum, Christine, who looks after all my invoicing and…
Read in fullNote: this is a little bit off track from my usual blog content….a little bit of a retrospective one could say. Maybe you’ll find it interesting nonetheless! The other day it finally hit home: I’m a geek. The realisation dawned as I typed the following into Google: sass rem mixin Huh? I smiled to myself as I realised how nonsensical what I had just typed sounded. To the vast majority…
Read in fullRecently, I’ve been working with a client on their web & content strategy. They currently have two websites, and we were examining the Google Analytics data for both. While so doing, something rather interesting popped out. The most looked at page (after the home page), for both websites, was ‘PRICING’. Worryingly, the pricing pages on both websites didn’t really contain any indication of what the price actually was – they…
Read in fullA lot of website designers will offer to do a free design review of your website, identifying any weaknesses on your website & suggesting how things could be improved. This is a valuable service – a good website designer will know what to look out for. HOWEVER… (yep, you knew that one was coming!!) Website designers are sometimes a bit techie (note I said sometimes, not alwaysJ). A website designer…
Read in fullI want to get something off my chest. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve read or heard the phrase ‘You really MUST do this if you want to succeed’, or ‘The 5 things that you MUST do in order to make your business profitable’. Among the biggest culprits at the moment are proponents of social media and online marketing. You MUST have a profile on Facebook, or…
Read in fullIt’s often the most looked at page on a website, after your home page. People are nosey. Or, if I’m being polite, people want to know who you are, what you stand for, what you look like… Think about it. A website can be very faceless. But people buy from people. So you need to convey who you are and what you’re like. Here are 6 things you should have…
Read in fullIt’s a few years now since I started using WordPress. For those who’ve never heard of it (and yes fellow web designers, there are people who have never heard of it – namely ordinary, non-techie people who have a business to run!!), WordPress is a Content Management System – a tool which allows non-techie people to change and update their website on an on-going basis. So what’s the point of…
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