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‘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 […]

“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 […]

Spoiler alert: no. Someone asked us the other day if we can make sites with carousels/sliders to rotate different content on the homepage, because not many of the sites in our portfolio have them. So here’s the short answer: Yes, we can. And here’s the longer one: Yes we can, but we generally advise clients […]

You’re busy, lazy, or maybe reading this whilst watching The X Factor so let’s cut straight to the chase… 1People relate to people Your cause, your mission, your innovative approach, your shocking statistics, your lovely bar chart, your ROI and low admin costs are all great – but we humans reserve our most emotional responses […]