May 23rd, 2013

It’s not uncommon for clients new and old to ask the question “what is the design process”. It’s perfectly understandable, clients want to know where their money goes and where we add value – and so below we explain just that. Overview We work closely with you and design each stage in detail. Where appropriate, we will invite you to review progress .. continue reading

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May 22nd, 2013

Traditionally business website design have been built to predetermined widths of around 920-1000 pixels wide, this was to accommodate the average screen size of 1024x which has slowly graduated to 1280x. With the fixed width approach the majority of people received an acceptable viewing experience but what of those on smaller screens? Well, admittedly not so great. This was an industry wide .. continue reading

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May 2nd, 2013

We’re feeling rather fuzzy inside, as a web design company we often get that feeling when we’ve just helped a client and the fruits of our work have come good. However today is a different design matter entirely. In aid of Unicef anyone and everyone is invited to ‘own’ a colour on the Unicef aptly named Own a Colour website. You simply .. continue reading

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April 22nd, 2013

The internet is awash with acronyms that traverse the English dictionary from end-to-end. Not only that but more appear all the day, sometimes it feels by the day. So below is an extensive (but not exhaustive) list of commonly used and recognised online marketing acronyms found in advertising, design, ecommerce and general tech talk the world over. AIDA – Attention, Interest, Desire, .. continue reading

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March 21st, 2013

A well designed website helps your visitors and potential customers find information about you quickly and easily. But effective company web design is not just the look and feel of a website, it’s the structure and navigation – how people interact. Meticulous planning is essential to ensure the success of your companies website with close attention being made to the many different .. continue reading

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February 23rd, 2013

What happened? On February 20th 2013 the well known florist “Interflora” was wiped off the Google search results pages. Interflora had been a big hitter in SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages) commanding the top spot for broad and lucrative terms such as “flowers”, “florist” and “flower delivery”. However in a short space of time that all changed and Interflora had ‘vanished’ from .. continue reading

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January 21st, 2013

Improve the Customer Experience Landing page optimisation is not about re-designing the website look and feel entirely, it’s about focusing your efforts on revamping an under-performing landing page. Often the landing page in question is the main or home page of the website – typically the ‘money maker’ that draws customers in to your website. Landing page optimisation should never be undertaken .. continue reading

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January 3rd, 2013

What is PageRank? PageRank is a link analysis algorithm which assigns a numerical weight to each website URL. The PageRank is a simple ‘score’ from 0 to 10 with 10 considered the most important ranking. Google has confirmed many times that PageRank does indeed have a bearing on the Search Engine Result Page (SERP) position of a website and it’s pages. Is .. continue reading

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January 2nd, 2013

We’d like to introduce the UKdex Business Directory, a free online directory, created to serve businesses up and down the United Kindgom.The aim of the UKdex is to help businesses likes yours promote themselves on the internet, be found and interact with customers to build relationships through feedback and idea exchange. The UKdex Business Directory is focused on delivering the information and services .. continue reading

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December 16th, 2012

We often get emails from potential clients asking the simple question, “does my business need a website?” Your business should at the very least have a presence on the web so that existing and potential customers, business partners and perhaps even investors can quickly and easily find out about your business and the products and/or services you offer. If they can’t find .. continue reading

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December 8th, 2012

Mega Mind’s dedicated UK team have a combined experience of over 70 years (and counting). So when it comes to your business web design our team knows through decades of industry experience what really works for your business online. We offer a range of services that start with entry-level but powerful business websites right up to multifaceted and complex business websites, all .. continue reading

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December 6th, 2012

We often get asked by existing and potential clients how best to develop their ecommerce website. For starters we must understand that a highly converting online shop is more than just a pretty design, in fact having an attractive frontage is only part of the solution. A well-considered user experience is paramount to the success of any e-tail/ecommerce design. We pay particularly .. continue reading

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November 30th, 2012

The Hans Brinker Budget Hotel might not be the world’s most glamorous hotel, but they sure do have an interesting take on marketing their business. Ignoring the words of Elton John, sorry doesn’t appear to be the hardest word after all. In fact the budget hotel likes to confess all and plaster their bad reputation across their marketing material. It’s so bad .. continue reading

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November 24th, 2012

Google AdWords is Google’s Pay-per-Click (PPC) advertising platform that enables business to display their adverts Google Search and Google Partner sites. AdWords uses a paid search advertising model whereby advertisers bid on the keywords (and phrases) they want to have trigger their adverts. Your AdWords ads are then displayed alongside search results on Google when someone uses one of your keywords in .. continue reading

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November 22nd, 2012

A few months ago we finished work on Hotfuel Clothing, an online store we developed for LE14 Clothing based around the Magento Ecommerce platform. Magento provides one of, if not the leading open source ecommerce platform for establishing and maturing your online retail channels. Magento themselves tout the platform as “combining an unrivaled feature set and virtually infinite flexibility”, and considering some .. continue reading

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