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.
19-12-2013 by
It's been a good year for CVW Web Design. We've tackled some great projects, learnt new skills, worked in some different locations, and been to a few fantastic web conferences. What's not to like?!
08-11-2013 by
We've come across a few sites recently where the website content management system hadn't been updated for months. Here's why it is important to ensure that your website's software is updated regularly.
15-10-2013 by
I've been organising coworking days in Horsham for the last 18 months and I'm now getting to the stage where I'm actively thinking about the next step - or whether there needs to be a next step at all!
24-09-2013 by
CVW Web Design has been doing more work with WordPress recently. Here is some advice about choosing WordPress and working with it on your website.
22-08-2013 by
We've just redesigned the logo for CVW Web Design and you can see the new version on the site now. It was designed to enhance the current site (rather than start a redesign).
06-08-2013 by
I've created a short audioclip with Audioboo that introduces coworking and, in particular, Horsham Coworking. Interested in coworking? Give it a listen!
14-07-2013 by
A sitemap will tell Google and other search engines about your website pages. It's a list of all the pages in the site and it can be helpful for prompting Google about new pages - and for getting feedback from Google.
21-06-2013 by
It's no secret that CVW Web Design is a vehicle for me, Clive Walker, to sell my freelance web design and development services. Yet, this website is designed/branded as a small company.
03-06-2013 by
We've been optimising this website recently and making it as fast as we can. Without going into the technical aspects of how we do this, let's ask the question. Why does website speed matter?
15-05-2013 by
I've joined the Perch Registered Developers Programme because I love working with Perch. It's a great website content management system (CMS) that makes it easy to update your website
29-04-2013 by
In the last post, we described Four Reasons Why You Must Update Your Website. Following on from that, here are some ideas about how you can make regular updates to your site.
16-04-2013 by
We see plenty of websites that are not updated very often and it's incredibly easy to fall into this situation. However, it's very important that you regularly update your website for several reasons.