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  • 02. Why WordPress?

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    “Complete Design Freedom”

    Despite what many web designers seem to think, WordPress is a Content Management System (CMS), not a web design tool.

    Your website should be uniquely yours – with design that is equally distinctive. WordPress gives you complete creative control over whatever you decide to build.

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  • 01. Why WordPress?

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    “Build Anything”

    WordPress is popular – for a reason. It is used as the basis of more websites than any other single platform in the world – for a reason.

    You can use it to build practically anything.

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  • Stop Relying on Social Media

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    “Using social media leaves you at the mercy of big tech – only concerned with selling Ad space.”

    And what about this Increasingly bad reputation it seems to have?

    Social media platforms can be extremely helpful in communicating and promoting what your organisation does. But are the ‘Pros’ now outweighed by the ‘Cons’?

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  • Should You Trust Google Ads?

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    “When you use google Search to find a suitable Web Designer, should you trust the paid Adverts Google serves you?”

    We’d say the short answer is no. To understand why we’ve come to this conclusion, you need to understand the main reason people choose to pay for Google Ads (updated: 2024).

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  • Website Typography – Why It Is Important

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    “Website typography is often neglected, but it plays a big part in determining whether people will stay on your website or not”

    The Web can carry a whole plethora of media – video, audio, interactive apps, social media – but ‘reading text’ is still by far, the dominant method for engagement and publishing information on the Web.

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  • Just How Important is Your Website?

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    “Our experience suggests some organisations don’t value their website as much as they should”

    Virtually every organisation needs a means to ‘communicate’ in order to function – and there are many ways to do this. However, for most, the easiest and most cost-effective means, is to create a website.

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