Charity Web Design experts
Enlist now if this is you: You’re a small charity that wants more donors, fundraisers etc? You’re finding it hard to compete with big rivals with big pockets? You have a website but people don’t seem to really engage with it? First up – the shouty sergeant major with some harsh words of truth […]
I talked in a previous blog about identifying the purpose(s) of your charity website and ways of measuring its success. Today let’s build upon that with a practical tool to help you do just that. Google Analytics = Information overload Google Analytics is a brilliant, free tool. But most website owners rarely make use of […]
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is a bit like the government’s Brexit policy – everyone knows it is important, but most of us are a little unsure as to exactly what it is. Although other search engines exist, we’ll refer primarily to Google as that’s the most important one. SEO is ultimately about getting your site’s […]
On the one hand, it’s obvious. It’s 2017, you have to have a website. Because everyone’s got one. On the other hand, have you ever stopped to think about what the purpose of it is, and how you measure its success? For an ecommerce or business site that’s easy to answer as those organisations have […]
‘Content is King’ That’s one of the most well-known digital maxims. Your website’s content is arguably more important than the graphic design or the functionality of it. Yet it’s almost always the most overlooked aspect of the website development process. It’s fun to pick designs, colours and fonts and all the nice-looking aesthetics, but filling […]
In this post for WordPress tecchies I’ll tackle a subject that crops up a fair bit in building sites for clients – whether to use the default archive functionality or to create a static ‘Page’ and use that as the parent for single Custom Post Type (CPT) posts. There’s no right or wrong answer but […]
Cut to the chase. That’s the message of this blog post. For me, one of the biggest differences between a good charity website and a mediocre one is the amount of ‘fluff’ text that’s spread throughout the site. Fluff text is words that don’t really need to be there. It’s the sentences that are taking up […]
“I can’t wait for this month’s edition of [your charity name]’s email newsletter!” – No-one, ever. Let me try something else to see if this sounds more familiar. You send out a monthly email newsletter to all your email subscribers because that’s what you’ve always done, and maybe because you still post out printed newsletters […]
When building or commissioning a new website, one of the most important considerations is the Content Management System (CMS) you’ll build the site with. Get it wrong, and it can cost you a lot of time and money to rectify down the line. “Our current site is too restrictive – it’s too hard to add/edit […]
Here I’ll share a template you can use when creating a tender / Request for Proposals (RFP) for the development of a new charity website. I’ll also give you some tips as to what to include and provide an agency/freelancer’s perspective on the process. Download our charity website brief / tender / RFP document template […]
