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Small Business Websites That Help You Sell

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Civil and Structural Engineering Consulting Firm Business Website

Example of a civil engineering consulting firm website on laptop, tablet and smartphone

A lean one page WordPress site for a civil engineering firm, built with Gutenberg blocks, auto-updates Cloudflare security, and plans for future expansion.

Filed Under: Clients Tagged With: mobile, responsive, smartphone, tablet, WordPress

Local Self Storage Business Website

Local self storage business website

The D&S Storage website was built to represent, market and sell the services together with well-written content and a short video to demo features.

Filed Under: Clients Tagged With: mobile, responsive, smartphone, tablet, WordPress

What Does a Serious Business Website Realistically Cost? 💷

March 25, 2024 by Ilkeston Web Design

True cost of a website?

Let’s sit down and discuss the time, skill, methods, knowledge and true fees involved for the build and launch of a business website that actually helps you sell.

Filed Under: Admin and maintenance, Article, eCommerce, Marketing, Planning, Search engines, Tips, Video, Web design, Web development, WordPress Tagged With: costs, website, WordPress

What Happens When Webhosting and WordPress Software Isn’t Kept Up-to-date? ⚠️

February 9, 2024 by Ilkeston Web Design

Presentation on WordPress core software and plugins

If you don’t maintain the webhosting PHP version and the software WordPress runs on, your website can malfunction, break or disappear from search engines.

Filed Under: Admin and maintenance, Article, Search engines, Security, Tips, Video, Web development, WordPress Tagged With: audit, business continuity, costs, derby, development, hacking, ilkeston, maintenance, nottingham, security, SEO, uptime, WAMP, website, WordPress

Websites Built on WordPress Vs Custom Build: What’s Best for Your Business? 🌗

December 13, 2023 by Ilkeston Web Design

Photo of two people planning a website on paper

Although WordPress powers half of all websites online, is free, open source, and perfect for small businesses, should you just skip it and go “custom” instead?

Filed Under: Admin and maintenance, Article, Audio, eCommerce, Planning, Tips, Web design, Web development, WordPress Tagged With: WordPress

“Cossall Parish Council” – Mobile Responsive Website, Nottinghamshire

Cossall Parish Council website

The Cossall Parish Council website was reimagined and redesigned. From the fixed-width HTML to the new, easier-to-administrate WordPress interface, it’s an all-round improvement.

Filed Under: Clients, Video Tagged With: mobile, responsive, smartphone, tablet, WordPress

“Ange Lord Art” – Mobile Responsive Website

This case study shows how a local artist launched her business website with specialised WordPress order/enquiry forms and comprehensive content.

Filed Under: Audio, Clients Tagged With: tablet, website, WordPress

The Website Pitstop: Why You MUST Develop and Test WordPress Websites Offline ⛽

September 27, 2016 by Ilkeston Web Design

Lego racing car pitstop

It’s easy to botch up a live WordPress website, which is why an offline “local” web server is essential for testing, developing and backing up your work.

Filed Under: Admin and maintenance, Tips, Video, Web development, WordPress Tagged With: derby, development, ilkeston, nottingham, Small business, WAMP, WordPress

“CoLaw” – Mobile Responsive Website, Leicester

This video demonstrates improvements and additional functionality on a website that was converted into WordPress mobile responsive site…

Filed Under: Clients, Video Tagged With: responsive, smartphone, tablet, website, WordPress

“Cash Protection Agency” – Mobile Responsive Website, Leicester

Cash Protection Agency mobile website

This case study demos a redevelopment project where a fixed-width website was converted to be mobile responsive with fast-loading vector graphics.

Filed Under: Clients, Video Tagged With: Small business, tablet, website, WordPress

“Uniglaze Windows” – Mobile Responsive Website, Ilkeston

Uniglaze Windows website demonstration

This case study outlines the building of a new website using WordPress and overhaul to certain marketing operations for a local double glazing company.

Filed Under: Clients, Mobile Tagged With: derby, ilkeston, nottingham, Small business, website, WordPress

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