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• Preparing To Employ a Web Designer

  This document outlines the thought process that will assist in your search for a web designer and should also assist you in the process of preparing to write a design brief.

• How To Assess Your Existing Web site

  Following on from "Preparing To Employ a Web Designer" his document shows you how to assess your existing web site. Many companies charge good sums for analysing your site, so do it for FREE!

• How to Write a Design Brief

  Using your preparation, and your analysis of your web site we move on to writing a design brief. A design brief is critical if you want your designer to be focused, quick and on budget.

• *NEW* Who is Your Client?

  This document is designed to help you form an idea of who your average client is. Download this form, fill it in and use it to help you write your Design Brief.




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• How To Decide Which Designer To Use

  You've done all the preparation work, you have found a number of design companies or freelancers. Now you have to work out which three to get quotes from. Following on from quotes, which do you choose? This guide helps you make some decisions.

• Social Networking - The "good" & the "bad"

  You've got to have a twitter account right? facebook?, myspace? etc etc. Well no not always. Can social media do you more harm than good?

• Less is More

  Trends in modern web design, more is not necessarily better. Sometimes, in fact most of the time, knowing when to stop and in fact when to take something away is of paramount importance.

• How to Write Content for Your Web site

  It may sound straight forward, but there are many things you need to consider when writing for a web site that you wouldn't normally worry about.

• Managing Your Web site After Launch

  A web site is organic. Once your site is launched its not just game over. Your site will need feeding with information and articles to keep it current, easy to find in search engines and much more

• Motivating Your Staff to Write for Your Web site

  Getting staff to write copy for the organisations' web site is very difficult. People often place such a low priority on being involved that the work never gets done. Here is how to motivate staff to get actively involved.

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