AttractMore Blog

News and articles to help you get the best from your website or online shop.

A Testing Surprise

Bug found in Chrome 87 and Edge 87

Browsers are not all the same and they are not always consistent in the way they display a web page. Because of this, we test websites thoroughly. Recently, during testing, we found a bug in Chrome.

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Improving Website Security with Encryption

Keeping websites safe

This blog post discusses website security in particular the increasing need to move to secure connections between server and devices used to access websites to combat hacking. The benefits of encryption are mentioned and the move to HTTPS is strongly recommended.

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Mobile Usage - Actions to Take

More and more people use their mobile smartphones to access the internet

This article looks at the growing usage of mobile devices to access the internet and proposes a series of actions to be taken by businesses to improve the effectiveness of their website for these devices. This includes ways of checking if your site is mobile friendly, thoughts about page load speed, AMP pages and search engine optimisation.

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Business Website Checklist

Business website success checklist

All the posts on this site are aimed at people who want to get the most from their website in terms of number of engaged and interested visitors, so potentially increasing the amount of business they are able to carry out. To that end, I have written an ebook that contains 35 items that will influence the success of your business website which you can download for free.

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Capturing Email Addresses on Websites

Checking to make sure email addresses that visitors have entered are valid

It’s almost certainly the case that you have a contact form on your website and likely that you have other ways of capturing visitors’ email addresses such as a sign up form. In this post I focus on capturing email addresses on contact and sign up forms and ensuring that the email address we capture is correct.

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ClientMailer, Email marketing specialists Oxford

Mobile responsive websites

ClientMailer now have a modern and professional website which properly reflects the products and services that they offer to their customers. The site looks good and works well on all device types and, importantly, it loads quickly. Peter Davey and his colleagues at ClientMailer are very pleased with the new site and they full expect that it will help them win more business in the future.

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Implementing a New Website

The importance of preserving the value in your website

It’s rare these days that we implement a new website for an organisation that has no existing web presence so, when putting the new site live, suitable consideration needs to be given to the old site. It is essential that we preserve the value that has been accumulated in the old site as far as possible. We also want to be able to monitor the benefits that the client gains from the new site. These are some of the activities that we undertake when putting a new website live.

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Effective Business Websites

Make your business website effective

I’ve come across a few business owners recently who believe that, because they have a website, they have done what is necessary to get new business using the internet. Then, when little or no business arrives via the website, they conclude that the internet is no good for acquiring new customers or it’s not appropriate for their business. What they miss is that often the design of their website is inappropriate for their business or that the content is inadequate. Visitors judge your business by the quality of your website. Let’s look at what’s really needed.

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