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The website marks its 30th anniversary

6 August 1991 saw Sir Tim Berners-Lee unveil the world’s very first website

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Umbraco 9: Almost here

Umbraco 9 is due to be launched at the end of August and we discover what it will offer

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Ticket to ride

Understanding and mapping your customer’s journey and supporting them at every point along the route makes for a better client experience and potentially more sales

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No need to reinvent the wheel

Today websites follow a fairly standard design, with the home page button, for instance, in a similar place. However innovative you might feel, this is not the time to reinvent the wheel and confuse your visitors

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Shopping around

In this current climate, most organisations are looking for ways to improve costs. For this reason, now might be a good time to undertake a website hosting review

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We've moved… to a castle

We are excited that Lake Solutions has moved to offices within the historical Hever Castle estate in Kent

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Into the fold

Today it is essential that your web page loads quickly ‘above the fold’ to not only reduce bounce rate but to improve your Google rankings as well

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Content translation: You like tomato and I like tomahto

Nowadays your customers could be based anywhere in the world, so do you translate or adapt your website to reflect that? It’s not that simple though, with regional variations and different dialects to consider

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Keep an eye on accessibility

When designing a website, it’s important to make it accessible to everyone

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Somewhere over the rainbow

Colours are more than just a design choice, they can affect how we feel and you need to keep this in mind when designing a website. Added to that, there are colours which simply don’t work online.

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The tiger who came for lockdown

At the beginning of the first lockdown many people memorably passed the time by using augmented reality (AR) to add a tiger into their living room! But what other uses does AR have, particularly within website design?

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Far from the madding crowd

Corporate life has altered, perhaps forever, over the past 12 months. Perhaps now is the time to reflect that in your website?

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