How good is your website?

How good is your website?

Your website is where people check you out so it needs to be sticky enough to keep people engaged. If people don’t stay – they don’t turn into potential customers, so the whole point of your website is to get people to stay long enough to make a...
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Is your website a Derby or a Grand National?

In the horse racing world the Derby is a flat race – a smooth ride to the finish line.  The Grand National is one obstacle after another, some of them so huge that only a few of the riders manage to land safely on the other side.  So how many obstacles do visitors to...
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Why dark backgrounds don’t work

Sexy black pages with white writing look slick and make an instant impact, but they make the reader work very hard to process the words and assimilate the information. This applies to any page where the writing is lighter than the background it’s on. Gold on...
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What stops people reading?

Readability is where what people read and how they read it come together. One without the other doesn’t work! It applies to web copy, marketing material and anything you use to promote your company where words and graphics come together. If you don’t get...
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Web copy that works

Writing for the web is a fine art – and so many people try to write for themselves, and miss their target. The result is that they blame their web designer for a website that doesn’t work. However, no matter how inspired the design is the web copy has to...
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7 steps to writing great copy

Whether you’re writing on the web or creating a piece of marketing copy; whether you’re writing a blog or an article there are some basic rules that will give your reader a good experience. 1. Always remember who you’re writing for – great copy...