I’ve been asked a couple of times recently about how to write good blog posts so I thought I would pull together some thoughts about this important topic. With so many blog posts available it is worth putting in some effort to ensure your posts are good quality as so many blog posts are poorly written. Yet, with some thought, a little planning and following some basic rules you can lift your posts above the noise and provide content that is worthwhile and easy to read and share.
Recent posts on this blog have focused on issue of a technical nature like page load speed, but this time I am going to offer some thoughts about customers, especially digital customers. This is important as an understanding of your customers will affect the design of your site and its content.
Uploaded photos are one of the main causes of slow web pages and this post looks into this issue and gives some suggestions about how to handle it effectively to give faster page load times.
In this post I want to touch on some factors which influence web page speed i.e. how quickly a web page appears on your screen. Clearly this is important for visitors to your site who don’t want to be kept waiting while the page loads. However, it’s also important because Google uses page load speed as one of the factors that determine where the page is placed in the search results.
Just over a month ago now, we launched a new web site for Alison Plant, an experienced Pilates instructor in Leeds. As you would expect, the web site looks great and works well on screens of all sizes, from larger desktop monitors to mobile smartphones.