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Having The Correct Keywords For Your Websites SEO
You’ve got a great looking website with fabulous images. It’s user-friendly, it’s optimised for various platforms, but it’s not showing up in online searches and not getting the hits you were...
The Importance of SEO
Understanding SEO From our experience as a leading SEO agency, the importance of organic marketing is often overlooked, but in a world where Google receives over 5.6 billion searches every day,...
Speeding Up Websites – Lazy Loading
At GForce Web Design, a key focus for all our web builds is speed. To serve a feature-rich site at high speed requires a lot of work behind the scenes. This blog post explains one technique we use...
Becoming a Freelance Web Designer
I often get emails from students and employed web designers about how to become a successful and established freelance web designer. I wanted to create a post I could direct people who contacted...
Should You Become a Web Designer in 2021?
If you’re here, then you’re thinking about becoming a web designer and wondering if it’s a smart move. Honestly, it’s not uncommon to be plagued by doubts and what-ifs when making a big career...
The Difference Between Blog and News
Many of our clients tell us they want a blog, news section or both on their website. It’s common formany to opt for a blog simply because “blog” is a buzz-word, but it’s important to know the...
5 Ways to Boost Productivity Whilst Working from Home
As mobile technology continues to evolve and as cloud computing becoming more and more common, a steadily growing number of people are contemplating to start their home-based businesses, and/or...
Are Blogs a Reliable Source of Information?
Can We Trust the Information We Read Online? With the absolute saturation of digital information, fake news, and a misconception that nothing on the internet is real, it can be hard to know what...
The Importance of Looking After Your Domain Name
Why It Is important to look after your Domain Name We often hear horror stories of people losing their domain names or we get a call from a client asking why they can’t access their website… and it...
How to Create a Truly Inclusive Web Design
Our affordable web design Birmingham service can play a key role in successfully promoting you and your business, from the initial design stage to the final outcome. How to Create a Truly Inclusive...
A Guide To The Best Web Design Services in Birmingham
Guide to Get the Best Web Design Services in Birmingham If you want to have a successful business in Birmingham, getting a website designed for your business is a must. Digital presence has become a...
Responsive Websites vs Dedicated Mobile Websites
Which Is Best, A Responsive Website Or A Separate Mobile Website? The way we access the internet has changed a lot over the past 10 years and in fact, more than 50% of all internet users are now...
7 Ways To Support Small Businesses In The Current Climate
No matter which way we turn at the moment, businesses are still being majorly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Even though the Government has lifted restrictions in most sectors, some have only...
Are SEO Meta-Tags Important?
Are SEO meta-tags important? Before we get into explaining why Meta Tags are so relevant for your website’s SEO efforts it’s important that we get the concept clear so everyone knows exactly how to...
SEO and PPC – How To Make Them Work Together
You are probably already aware of how incredibly vital having an online presence is, even for the most traditional businesses. Your website is your shop window, where your customers can find you,...
Web Design For Personal Trainers PT
Web Design For Personal Trainers PT We have been designing websites for personal trainers for many years. Most fitness trainers have their sites listed on many internet sites. However, they need...
Our Web Designer’s Tools & Tips for Working from Home
We are living in a global crisis; social distancing is now the new norm but as web designers we can still work remotely from home. Those of us that were used to working in a shared office space are...
Google Ads Mistakes to Avoid
Contrary to some popular beliefs within the industry, SEO and PPC aren’t at opposite ends of the spectrum. There are many ways in which the two different search disciplines can work together for...
8 Productive Things to do When Business Hits a Quiet Spell
Every now and again, businesses will go through a quiet spell. This can be for all kinds of reasons. Plans fall through. Markets change. The economy changes. Change will always happen. And as we are...
9 Creative Ways To Market Your Local Service Business Online
No matter what happens in our world, there will always exist a time where people need a helping hand. The great thing about running a service-based business is that there will always be problems...
Web Design Services During Coronavirus
We are open and available to help your business. We’ve moved our team to work from home for now. All of the services that we offer are 100% available and we can be reached in all of the usual ways....
3 Easy Ways to Grow Your Instagram Followers in 2020
You may have recently read our guide about the Instagram algorithm and how to make it work for your business. If you’re yet to sign up to Instagram as your business or brand, check out that...
Why You Need A Blog For Your Business
Business blogging should never be confused with regular everyday blogging. It is not a place for you to rant about your competitors or tell amusing stories about your customers, but a platform for...
Using The Best Hashtags For Your Business
The best hashtags on social media serve three key purposes: 1. They correctly categorise content according to the hashtags that are used in posts, making it easier for audiences to find content they...
How To Measure Your Brand Success
How To Measure Your Brand's Success Your brand is beautiful. You know investing money in it makes sense, to grow awareness and support other areas of the marketing strategy. You’ll feel when it’s...
How To Choose The Best Domain For Your Business
After thinking about a name for your company, the next hardest decision is to choose the right domain. No it is not as simple as sticking your business name and attaching .com or .co.uk, the...
Why Your Website Needs SSL Certificate
If you’ve just started a business, one of the first things that you should get is a website. And if you’ve already got a website, one of the first things that you should get for it is an SSL...
How Does Colour Impact Web Design?
Creating a website that accurately reflects a company message, mood or image can be profoundly important when it comes to public perception of a brand. That much is fairly obvious and it doesn’t...
Web design vs Web development – Do you know the difference?
Many of the people we talk to use the terms ‘web design’ and ‘web development’ interchangeably, but the truth is that the two terms refer to totally different disciplines within the process of...
What Is Responsive Web Design?
What is Responsive Web Design? According to new statistics from StatCounter, in October last year internet usage on mobile devices exceeded desktop, with 81.3% of the share compare to desktop’s...