Why I moved my online shop to Shopify
The best thing about running a blog, a product based business and a service based Web Design business, is that I can shower my clients with my own personal experience. With the clients I work with, and the majority of projects I work on, I’ve actually been there and done that, reaped the rewards and trudged through […]
Clean your list
You’ve got a mailing list for your business, right? You should have, anyway. It’s a great way of collecting customer and client leads, and yourself on their radar. Mailing lists have been around forever, unlike twitter/instagram/facebook/periscope. They’re not going anywhere fast. I’ve been working on building the mailing lists for my two businesses for the […]
Why I won’t book a call to discuss your potential project…
I don’t do calls. Well, hardly ever. If I can avoid a call, I will. Calls suck. They suck time, they suck because I work from home and get a billion deliveries a day, and they suck even harder when you ask for video on Skype (because I don’t feel the need to dress fancy […]
5 Ways to beat creative block
Creative block. Ah. It hits us all at one time or another. Usually when you least want it to, you know, in the middle of a massive project with an imminent deadline. Sometimes it can last only a couple of hours, other times you can go weeks without having a new idea. It. Sucks. I […]
Is your website mobile friendly? It’d better be!
Ah, Google. Holding the fates of search traffic in its hands. The next Google algorithm change on April 21st means that your site’s mobile friendliness is going to be taken into account. Let me break it down… Google’s Algorithm Google’s algorithm is a program that uses several bits of information to display the relevant results when […]
How to be a Web Designer: My Story
One of the most common questions I get asked about web design and development is how I came to do what I do. Did I go to school to learn how to make websites? Where did I learn the ins and outs of WordPress? Here’s the first in a new series, starting with my story, sort […]