News, views, and articles from a freelance web designer in Horsham, West Sussex. I publish regular articles; there is an RSS feed if you want to subscribe with, for example, an RSS reader like Feedly.
08-03-2015 by
I've been using WooCommerce on a couple of projects recently. It's a nice piece of software that is ideal for many small and medium-sized businesses that want to sell online.
10-01-2015 by
Last year, I was lucky enough to be invited to participate in the Tag Soup podcast by Simon Cox. And, very excitingly (at least, for me), the first episode came out just before Christmas.
27-11-2014 by
You want a website for your business. How much will it cost? That's often the first question that comes up. It should be easy to answer, right?
Sorry but No!
24-10-2014 by
I've had a very busy few weeks here at CVW Towers. Two website launches. One rush job when a client's old site went down. And the start of a new ecommerce site. Phew!
22-09-2014 by
I had a meeting with a client last week where we discussed a potential website redesign. We checked website visitor statistics to see how many visitors used mobile devices. Higher than expected!
24-07-2014 by
It's important to name and describe images on your website as accurately as possible because this will help Google and other search engines understand the images and use them in search rankings.
23-06-2014 by
We all know that contact forms on websites can attract a degree of spam comments but these can be minimised with a few simple measures.
23-05-2014 by
In Three Tips for Improving Your Ecommerce Sales, I suggested adding customer reviews to your site. To follow up on this, I came across an article recently that described how a customer review widget increased ecommerce sales by 36%.
15-04-2014 by
I've written a couple of posts about adding content to your website, for example Four Reasons why you Must Update Your Website and Ideas for Updating Your Website, but it's equally important to take stock and review your website content regularly.
12-03-2014 by
I run Horsham Pub Guide as a bit of a 'hobby' site and it was one of the first sites I created. However, it struck me recently that I really ought to review the site in order to take it forward.
19-02-2014 by
I've decided to change a few things for CVW Web Design this year and I've started by working on this site. For a while now, I've been thinking that the site should be about me as a freelancer
14-01-2014 by
Ecommerce is hard work and it's tough to make significant sums of money by selling products online. This post is about making a few changes to your ecommerce website that will, hopefully, improve sales
