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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.

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9 common website mistakes (and how to fix them)
A good website design is vital to creating an enjoyable online experience for the viewer. 40-60% of viewers click on a website and immediately exit the website (a term we call 'bounce'), this means you lose potential customers. A high proportion of users bounce simply because they don't like the design of the website.
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What the Facebook data breach means for YOUR website
Most modern websites are not a simple set of documents but instead composed using a series of inter-connected online software packages, running 24 hours a day to deliver content to your visitors. As with all software, this needs updating to give you new features, fix bugs and plug security holes to counteract the activity of online hackers. 
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Use your website for recruiting: think holistic
Using your website for job vacancies is an obvious way to try to recruit staff, bypassing recruitment agencies.  We'll show you how one of our clients uses their whole website to show what a great firm they are to work for.
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Is your website DDA compliant?
If your website is excluding people, it may fall foul of new legislation and leave you liable to be sued. The government outlined what websites need to do in the Disability Discrimination Act and further clarified this in the Equality Act 2010. The Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) and Equality Act 2010 (EQA) aims to ensure disabled people are afforded the same access to websites as able-bodied people and cannot be discriminated against on grounds of their disability.
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5 easy steps to drive traffic to your website
You might have the perfectly designed website, with interesting and engaging content, however, this won't matter if you can't get people to visit your website. A quality website design can keep customers coming back to your website, but it is unable to make people discover your website in the first place. This is why it is important to have a coordinated plan on how to drive traffic to your website.
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Improve your medical research apps
Apple's new framework ResearchKit, released in March 2015, makes it easy to develop apps that can perform medical research, improving participation levels, providing objective data and providing it frequently and quickly. The iPhone has now sold it's 700 millionth phone and it's the most popular smartphone in the world. Since it's introduction to the world in 2007 there's no doubt that the iPhone has changed the world.
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