As a software and web developers we strive to create intuitive business solutions for our clients. However over the years we have discovered that what is intuitive for some is not for others.
Posts Tagged ‘web site design’
Intuitive design – not so intuitive.
Thursday, January 5th, 2012Designing for your target audience
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011Playing around on the new company iPad 2 recently, I have been surprised at the amount of websites that still use Adobe Flash. I don’t mean the odd use of Flash, but entire sites built using it, preventing me from using them. Madness you say!
What is function led design?
Thursday, August 25th, 2011I was watching a You Tube video recently that was promoting the benefits of function led design. This reminded me of where I first came across the approach that we use at Ayrmer Software to successfully drive forward both our web and software projects.
E-Commerce checking out! Getting it right.
Wednesday, July 6th, 2011With the country in recession and big name high street stores closing up shop (no pun intended) there is one route to market that is booming. E-commerce is still seeing growth as shoppers move online to grab the bargains. It is not a license to print money and if you don’t get it right you could actually lose customers.
Website design – a black art?
Monday, July 4th, 2011I recently helped a friend out, who is setting up a new venture with a couple of colleagues, all of whom have an entrepreneurial streak in them. They are young, enthusiastic and determined to make a success of their new business and asked a designer to create a new website for them. They thought that it would start working for them straight away, so you can image their disappointment when they didn’t instantly show up on Google. So what went wrong, were they dabbling in a black art, or should their designer looked after them better?
Ipad 2 and Tablet PCs – Its not just about the hardware
Thursday, March 3rd, 2011The media and the internet has been sent into a frenzy after Apple’s Steve Jobs announced the release of the iPad 2 at a big media event in San Francisco. A lot of the focus at the event was based around the updated hardware which generally was warmly welcomed. Any device whether it be an iPad, iPhone, Blackberry, PC or Mac is only a platform for what the user can do with it. It is the software on the device that brings it to life.
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Setting realistic objectives for your website
Thursday, November 25th, 2010When asked “what are your main reasons for commissioning a new website?”, most clients say “to increase sales”. In most cases this isn’t a realistic objective and if taken on face value will ensure the website will never succeed. So how do you define what your B2B website objectives should be?
Note: the below article talks mostly about B2B websites although most is very relevant for B2C websites as well.
Do It Yourself (DIY) web site design – Step #5
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010In our previous four articles we showed you how to registering your domain name (Step #1), set up your domain hosting (Step #2), install WordPress (Step #3) and introduced theme (Step #4). In this week’s article we’ll have a look at Plugins that allow you to extend WordPress to do almost anything you can imagine.
