Utilising the powerful tool that is Google Analytics will allow you to track many important stats and information about your websites. Knowing how many people are using your site, where they are from, your most popular pages and much more can be extremely beneficial to your business, whether a large company or a small start-up, as it can help you to see how effective and successful your online presence is by displaying a breakdown of all of this traffic information.
On: 17 May, 2013 By: nexusadmin
Trying to operate within a budget is one of the main challenges in business, whether you are an old hand feeling the pinch or a newly qualified freelancer.
A highly technical and creative field like web design requires tenacity to make it work and your approach to finances can lead you to sink or swim.
You really don’t always need the latest gadget or tool on the market; have faith in your ability, develop and improve your skills and ...
Anyone starting up a business these days knows how important it is to have a website. So how do you make yours stand out from the crowd? It’s no good merely having one – it needs to be professional and above all, memorable.
A brand new business may not always have the resources to commission a high-quality website from a professional design team at first, but will produce one in-house instead, at least for the time being. Knowing how ...
The team at Nexus Websites have a long history of living within the Oxfordshire and Abingdon areas and as such we aim to offer an excellent and personal service to all of our clients within the area.
Here are two examples websites that we have recently built for clients based in and around Abingdon:
Chips Away
Chips Away Abingdon is a leading UK company that specialises in car bumper scuff repairs and paint scratch repairs.
We were tasked with designing ...
Every so often, a new word or phrase appears in the web design industry that trends all across the internet. The current popular phrase is ‘responsive web design’, and has been gaining a lot of importance.
Responsive web design has become a key part of website design with the increase in mobile phones and tablet devices. A website now needs to look suitable on a wide range of devices, from a 30 inch PC monitor to a small mobile ...
A recently popular phrase that has been appearing over the internet recently is ‘responsive web design’, stemming from the maturing of a recent idea. As this idea has gained tract and popularity it is changing the way in which websites are built, evolving from a buzzword into the inclusion of every project in web design.
With the shift towards ‘responsive web design’, here are some tips from websites Wigan to help you adapt.
Don’t simply scale your website linearly
On: 16 Feb, 2013 By: nexusadmin
The most commonly used page sizes to base web design around are 1024, 768 and 320; however, those sizes are very rarely the actual width of any desktops, tablets or mobiles. There is a wide variety outside of these resolutions but when it comes to web design those three are pretty much standard.
How does this work for the other screen sizes?
Many sites use breakpoints for the three sizes with un-adaptable sizes that will use the closest width ...