Over the past couple of months social media has seen a huge boom in users and activity – not unexpectedly with lockdown pretty much in place across the world. We’ve seen the increase from a business point of view too, with more interest and enquiries in digital...
Social media is a huge area of marketing, and a vital part of your marketing if you are running a business – but just where do you start? What platforms do you choose? What do you share? How do you begin? Here’s a key thing to understand right from the off: you don’t...
The next Digital Women event in August is packed to the brim, so much so that the team behind it have extended the skills session from 1 to 2 days! This is brilliant, and having been watching from the very first one, which spanned a few hours of an evening back in...
It's always so easy to assume everyone knows the jargon when it comes to website design, but that's not always the case! We thought we'd spend some time in this blog to really explain what a 'theme' is, and how this can help when choosing your platform for your new...
It's not often you get to work with people in your own sector! It was great fun to work with Lucy from LK Digital Marketing in Aberystwyth on her new website this year. Lucy offers a range of digital marketing services, specialising in speech therapy, and required a...
It's been a genuine pleasure to work with Kenneth Roberts on the new website for Smallscores over the past few weeks! Another 'victim' of MrSite closing down, Kenneth got in touch with us back in May to discuss options for his website, and decided to start from...
Delighted to be working alongside Superfast Business Wales to promote our popular webinar: WordPress Basics! Our first event with SFB will be on the 29th of July 2020, and is already a full, sell out webinar. We have two more dates coming, which are to be confirmed...
It's always really nice to be recommended by a client, as was the case for WG Doyle Drains who approached us after their neice came to us for website help. Doyle Drains have had a busy start to lockdown, and knew they needed to get a website presence for those all...
We’re delighted that Kerry has been asked to speak at the Digital Women, Digital Skills Summit on June 30th! A virtual event organised by Digital Women, who usually arrange summits twice a year in London. Kerry will be talking about how your can level up your website...
A new website launch for us this week, for Yr Hen Stablau in Devil's Bridge. It has been a pleasure to work with the new owners of these holiday cottages, especially in establishing their new online presence. The new website is built using WordPress, which means our...
Since TSO hosts annouced last week that they are stopping the support of MrSite, we’ve been looking at the different options available to small business owners at this time. Unfortunately, TSO Hosts have only given a months notice before they’ll be closing all of...
We found out yesterday that Mr Site (and associated brand names) has for many years been under the TSO Host banner, who have decided at the end of June to stop supporting the system Mr Site uses for its websites. There are lots of “site-builders” around, including the...
Here's a sneaky update that we missed online until it popped up on our Twitter profile! I had noticed that Twitter itself last week during an entertaining conversation with NASA had only allowed NASA to reply to the thread. I assumed it was nice feature they'd given...
Facebook Rooms was rolled out in the UK this last week, and we've already seem some great sure over the past few days. It seems they'll be popular, and hopefully, here to stay. We already know that Facebook wanted to roll out this feature in the wake of the world...
Great news for small businesses tonight as Facebook annouces they’re rolling out “Facebook Shops” as of today! This comes with Facebook’s continued effort to help businesses and community during the coronavirus pandemic across the globe, and it’s really accelerated a...
So WooCommerce 4.0 has been out for a while now, and with it comes a whole new way to interact with your sales data. We always recommend updating to the latest version of WooCommerce as soon as you can, but due to the size of this, and after reports that early test...
We’ve been working on a handy PDF for businesses who use social media, with plenty of tips and advice to help you boost your social. We look at four of our favourite platforms – Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram, offering tips and advice on each. We hope you...
We've seen the rumblings for a while now, but the #RIPTwitter hashtag was at large this morning as Twitter finally announced that yes, it will be introducing a stories function to the platform. So, what do we know so far? Stories are already hugely popular on...
First thing first - we actually offer services to help you build your own website, so we're not here to put across negative reasons about why you shouldn't do this, and why you should use a website designer/developer, we just wanted to share some of our thoughts on...
Accessibility is more and more essential when it comes to website design and development, especially with recent Government guidance when it comes to public sector / council websites (changes due 2020!) . Let’s take a look at what the term means, and why it’s...
Sometimes it's hard to convince clients that social media is the way to go, or at least incredibly important when it comes to marketing your business online. What better way than with some fantastic statistics across the popular platforms in 2019. It might make you...
As the end of another year draws to a close, we always like to take a look at social media or digital marketing predictions for 2020 - trends to watch out for. For us, it's all about being slightly ahead of the curve at all time! Here are my favourite trends for 2020...
Beyonce said that if you like it, then you should put a ring on it. We're talking about engagement - specifically, social media engagement. It's such an important part of your social media strategy and we're constantly surprised that people don't seem to give it more...
I always love looking at the upcoming trends when a year is coming to a close. It's a great way to make sure that we're keeping up with the trends in the big cities, but also great for an extra ideas for those clients of ours who do want to push the boundaries. So,...