Blog of a Web Designer
Where I will document my ramblings on all things design, web and business
Website speed – what makes a website slow, why does it matter, and what can you do about it?
As web users, we all know the frustration of a slow website. As our IT infrastructure has developed to allow many of us access to super fast broadband, the web has responded with a proliferation of rich media such as videos, large images and interactive websites. We...
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How to choose an e-commerce platform
So you’ve got a great product you’re sure the world would flock to buy? It sounds like you are probably ready to start selling online. You may be baffled by the array of choices facing you before you even start, or perhaps you had no idea they even existed. Unless you...
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GDPR for very simple websites
With just a month now until the GDPR comes in to effect, a lot of very small (and some not quite so small) businesses are still finding the prospect of GDPR compliance overwhelming. One aspect of that compliance where I might be able to shine a little light, is the...
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Cookies, the GDPR and e-Privacy
I started this series with a long, hard look at the implications of privacy laws for websites that use Google Analytics, and came to the conclusion that if the only cookies your website is setting are for Google Analytics, you don’t have too much to worry about...
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The GDPR and ePrivacy – Google Analytics
The GDPR is coming! You may have noticed. Tasked with bringing 20+ websites in to line with the new legislation by the 25th May, I have been up to my elbows in GDPR recently and have found it astonishingly difficult to find authoritative answers to anything beyond the...
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