Twitter for business – what to tweet about
If you know me, you’ll know that I have a ten per cent rule: No more than ten per cent of your social media posts should be sales or marketing. If you’re on twitter, it can be tempting to constantly …...
View ArticleMaking your WordPress site mobile – 4 ways to do it (and how to choose the...
More and more of us are browsing the web using our mobile phones, and more and more websites (now about 20% of the Internet) are powered by WordPress. So it makes sense to bring the two together. But...
View ArticleTalking about business startups on West Midlands local radio
This morning I was interviewed by Radio WM about my experience of setting up Compass Design and running a web design agency. Elliott Webb, standing in for Phil Upton, was interviewing businesspeople...
View ArticleAre you testing your website in the right browsers?
Today I was casually checking the stats for this website on google analytics when I thought it would be useful to look at the comparative figures for browsers people have used to visit the site...
View ArticleLinkedIn Groups – when and when not to set up your own
If you’ve ever considered setting up your own LinkedIn group, you may be wondering whether it’s the right thing for your business. In this post from Compass Social’s LinkedIn group, I’ve provided an...
View ArticleLinkedIn groups – focus, focus, focus
How many LinkedIn groups have you joined? It may be a fair few. The chances are you’re getting emails from all those groups on a regular basis – weekly or even daily. The problem is that the more...
View ArticleCMSes go mobile – Harnessing WordPress for mobile development
On 3 March I spoke at a special standards.next event on mobile web development, about using CMSes such as WordPress to develop mobile sites. Here are my slides (if you’re viewing on an iOS device,...
View ArticleMaking WordPress go mobile
A lot of people ask me about the different options there are available for making a WordPresss site mobile, and I’ve blogged about in in brief on this website. I’ve now had an article on this topic...
View ArticleChuck out the chintz: why some web design trends are bad for mobile development
Why we think a website's speed and effectiveness are more important than whether it follows the latest web design trends. Continue reading →
View ArticleMobile web design: responsive design, mobile site, native app or web app?
The number of solutions available to web designers and developers has grown considerably in recent years. A few years ago, if you wanted a mobile site, you basically had two options – a mobile only...
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