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See our posts on the most important topics in and around website design - from commissioning your own website to sustainability and accessibility, we cover the things that are important to you and to us.

The Multi-Audience Challenge: Making Your Healthcare Research Website a Powerful Engagement Hub
Please see below the recording of our webinar on 5th March at 12:30 - 13:00, we focused on the essential aspects of planning your healthcare research website, to create a space where you can engage and collaborate with all of your key audiences.
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Website analytics, now with less fuss
How can we make something good work better? Taking your website analytics and building them into your website - no extra websites and no extra passwords needed. Now you can see see the information you need at a glance, removing an unnecessary barrier and saving you time.
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Better for everyone: Reworking your website with accessibility in mind
Websites are rarely ever a static thing; You can add new content, move articles around and create new pages to meet your needs. Recently, some of our longer term partners have become more interested in making their websites accessible, catering for the needs of their audience. The Institute of Mental Health (IMH) is a partnership between Nottingham
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Webinar: Accessibility & Regulations: Does your site fall short?
Myself (Alex) & Elizabeth deliver our lunchtime webinar on accessibility.  Awareness of website accessibility has increased dramatically over the last few years and now it is more important than ever to cater to all of your site’s visitors. In this webinar, we cover which regulations public sector websites should meet and what needs to be
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Is it time to redesign your website?
Your website is a vital part in forming your online presence and connecting with your audience. There are many factors that may lead you to consider a website redesign. Read on to see if it might be time to refresh your website and to see the work we did with EMEESY Children’s Kidney Network when they decided to bring their old site up to date.
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Your sustainable website: powered by 100% renewable green energy
The internet costs a lot to power: over 205 terawatt-hours (TWh) a year according to one study, meaning it is responsible for around 3.7% of all global energy use.  And whilst an individual website’s footprint is small, it all adds up.
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Interpreting your website analytics and what to look out for
At Volute we give all our customers a monthly report, outlining key performance statistics regarding their website. It helps to give them an idea of who is and isn’t visiting their website and what areas you might need to change or improve.  It’s important to take time to really understand your website analytics and consider them in the context of your business and customer base; what might be a negative for one website could be seen as a positive for another. 
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SSL certificates: what are they, do they matter and what can you do about them?
Do you know if your website has an SSL certificate? Is your website ‘secured’? There are lots of different security measures taken to keep your site online; these prevent hackers from taking down or driving traffic away from your site. A secure site gives customers confidence engaging with you as a business, and increases the legitimacy of content on your site.
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