If you already have a website, there will already be a number of entries in Googleās index for pages on your existing domain. Often we find that some of these entries may be for pages that are either not something you want to publicly advertise, should not be accessible as stand-alone pages, are remnants of […]
Refined Practice recently has an opportunity to advertise in Marketing Week, and below are photo’s of the advert and article. You can still read theĀ articleĀ onlineĀ which includes Roland’s viewpoint. If you’d like, please feel free to download a PDF of our advert for a closer look. If you would like us to help with any of […]
As we have mentioned before, we use Subversion to manage our codebase. That includes our WordPress set up with all its preferred and custom plugins. So, what’s the best way to update a plugin when it’s in your Subversion repository? The approach we take (which you might find handy) is to: Download the new version […]
(or “How to put a visually disruptive overlay in front of your users without annoying them so much they instantly leave your site”) This is the techie companion post to our discussion on visually disruptive overlays AKA “those irritating pop-up things that seem to be everywhere nowadays”. It gives the technique we use on the […]
Less than 2 weeks after launch, the Refined Practice website is already the number one result on Google UK for ‘Online Brand Consultants’.
Relevance analysis is a data-driven approach to determining what it is that your potential customers want from your business on the web, how content and the web site should be structured, and what terms and phrases should be used to appeal to your target market (this is essentially extremely detailed digital market research). Similar work […]
Simple, free techniques you can use to check on the performance of your website. No technical knowledge required, just a desire to make the best of your online presence.
I was quite interested reading the latest rant from David Mitchell as he managed to hit upon a pet hate of mine when it comes to the internet. In his article, Mitchell discusses āVisit Englandā and their ā101 things to do before you go abroadā list. In these times of economic woe Visit England should […]
To celebrate our trip to the Great British Business Show on 17 & 18 May, lead designer Colin ‘William Morris’ Hall has developed some rather funky wallpaper.
We’re all aware that we should protect our details online, but this week news has reached the BBC (other news outlets are available!) about a new kind of āhackingā run by āThe Comment Groupā from China. How does it work? Well, they email you from what looks like a trusted address (say, someone inside your […]
