Website Design Blog

​This week I had the pleasure of speaking at the CWE/CME Daytime Business Networking event, held on Thursday July 11th. As a business, I've always tried to be educational with the blog and social media posts I create, and today I pulled a number of recent posts together with some practical demonstrations of the topics covered: 1) Deciding on the pu...

What is copywriting? For websites, copywriting refers to the creation of the right words to use on your website pages, perhaps to explain your services, introduce your business or describe the products that you are selling. The writing can be based upon in-depth SEO research, so that the text targets specific search words and phrases, whilst being ...

​A domain name is what you type into a web browser in order to get directly to a website.  For me, my domain name is www.lightbulbwebdesign.co.uk . The .co.uk part is the 'top level domain' (TLD) - there are many choices of this out there, from the often-used .com through to much newer ones like .digital How much do domain names cost? Usually,...

​Something that came up at a recent business expo related to not just the work and time that goes in to designing websites, but also the hosting, extensions and other costs associated with web design. Nearly all of our websites are built on a very popular content management system (CMS).  Whilst we could have gone down the static HTML route, d...

​We try to make our blog informational and educational - our posts are here to help you understand what's involved with web design, and what you should be getting when you pay someone to design a website for you. For some, having awareness of what they are getting for their money is important, but for others, they expect that their web designer is ...