Web Design Articles – Insight, Help & Advice
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03. Why WordPress?
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“Custom Content Types”
For many, the standard web ‘page’ is all you need. “What we do”, “Who we are” ; perfect. But what if, let’s say, your organisation works in multiple countries, on multiple projects? These might be better presented via multiple page ‘views’. A ‘Location’ or ‘Project’ view. Filtered by ‘Year’ or ‘Partners’.
Custom content types allow you to ‘query’ virtually any property and present it as a page ‘view’ to the user.
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02. Why WordPress?
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“Complete Design Freedom”
Despite what many web designers seem to think, WordPress is a Content Management System (CMS), not a web design tool.
Your website should be uniquely yours – with design that is equally distinctive. WordPress gives you complete creative control over whatever you decide to build.
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01. Why WordPress?
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“Build Anything”
WordPress is popular – for a reason. It is used as the basis of more websites than any other single platform in the world – for a reason.
With WordPress you can design and develop a website for practically any use case. Whatever your idea might be, this time-tested and sophisticated platform has likely got it covered.
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Should You Trust Google Ads?
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“When you use google Search to find a suitable Web Designer, should you trust the paid Adverts Google serves you?”
We’d say the short answer is no. To understand why we’ve come to this conclusion, you need to understand the main reason people choose to pay for Google Ads (updated: 2024).
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Website Typography – Why It Is Important
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“Website typography is often neglected, but it plays a big part in determining whether people will stay on your website or not”
The Web can carry a whole plethora of media – video, audio, interactive apps, social media – but ‘reading text’ is still by far, the dominant method for engagement and publishing information on the Web.
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Just How Important is Your Website?
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“Our experience suggests some organisations don’t value their website as much as they should”
Virtually every organisation needs a means to ‘communicate’ in order to function – and there are many ways to do this. However, for most, the easiest and most cost-effective means, is to create a website.
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Web Standards : Maximise Website Compatibility
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“What do people see when they visit your website? It almost certainly won’t be the same as what you see when you visit it”
Unlike most other visual media, “one size fits all” doesn’t work for web design, as it has to adapt to a whole range of different viewing scenarios.
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Does WordPress Maintenance Matter?
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“Using WordPress to manage your website’s content is a good choice, but it needs looking after”
Depending on your requirements, using WordPress as the Content Management System (CMS) for your website is a good choice for many. However. poor maintenance could lead to major issues for your website.
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