From the Nexus team we wanted to thank you all for your continued business during one of the most challenging years in a century.

Just to let you know, our business will be closed from the 19th of December until the 4th of January. Thank you!

8 Benefits of using Google Analytics

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

5 Ways to Add Relevancy to Your Emails

In email marketing, with the creation of ‘priority inbox’ and similar, one important issue is relevancy. On the web relevancy relates to what people want to see and find most interesting. For example many of the largest online websites such as YouTube and Google are tracking users browsing habits, allowing them to serve relevant contents to the user. This expands further than just advertisement and can also include things such as video suggestions, displaying status updates from friends about specific ...

On: 7 May, 2013 By: nexusadmin

7 Things to Include in an Email Signup System

Reacting quickly is an integral part of building up and improving your relationship with your customers by email. A user subscribing to your mailing list is a good sign that they are interested in you, and want to see more about you. Taking advantage of this by creating a suitable signup system can be very beneficial to enhancing a positive relationship.
Creating a good signup system
This process is first initiated by the initial form that is used to subscribe ...

On: 27 Apr, 2013 By: nexusadmin

5 Tips to Increase Return on Investment from Email Marketing

Here are some tips compiled by our Wigan web design team that you may find useful whether you’re just starting out in email marketing, or already experienced with marketing techniques. Considering and implementing these tips will help you boost the successfulness, relevance and engagement of your marketing campaigns.
Use a telephone
Over the past few years, the online presence of mobile devices has been significantly increasing, with more people than ever checking their emails on their smartphones. Make it ...

On: 17 Apr, 2013 By: nexusadmin

6 Budgeting Tips for Designers

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 ...

On: 28 Mar, 2013 By: nexusadmin

Important Web Design Tips for New Businesses

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 ...

On: 18 Mar, 2013 By: nexusadmin

Web Design Abingdon

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 ...

On: 8 Mar, 2013 By: nexusadmin

3 Common Misconceptions about Responsive Web Design

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 ...

On: 26 Feb, 2013 By: nexusadmin

4 Tips about the Modern Responsive Web

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

5 Tips to Help You utilise Twitter to Successfully Engage with Users

Some people may say that Twitter is just a waste of time, but it is one of the most useful tools that a social marketer can take advantage of. It allows your followers to engage with you as it permits a quick and easy method of two way communications, as well as providing more information about what you or your business is up to in a more informal manner.
To get the most out of using Twitter though, you need ...

On: 6 Feb, 2013 By: nexusadmin

15 types of content that consumers enjoy sharing across social networks

In today’s world, Social media rapidly goes through information and constantly requires additional content to keep users interested and eager for more. This can prove to be a challenge for social media marketers as a constant stream of new content needs to be created, published and promoted.
With the rise in popularity of mobile devices such as laptops, smart phones and more recently tablets, and with the ever improving mobile networks content can be accessed much quicker by many ...

On: 27 Jan, 2013 By: nexusadmin

Design for content, not page width!

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 ...

On: 17 Jan, 2013 By: nexusadmin
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