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Website Design – The Basics

Are you looking to take your business to the next level? Crafting a website that best captures who you are and the services or products you offer is essential in today’s digital world. Website design is an important part of this endeavour – with cutting-edge, eye-catching visuals and easy navigability, it will be sure to capture potential clients’ interest in no time! Here at Dog and Pig Design, I have been crafting stunning websites for many years now, helping businesses grow their online presence and extend their reach further than ever before. In this blog post, I’ll share some tips on how you can make the most out of website design when taking your business online. So keep reading to find out more!

Things to consider

Website design can be an intimidating endeavor, but it doesn’t have to be! A great website should be aesthetically pleasing, have easy navigation and user-friendly functionality. To ensure your website’s success, keep in mind a few basic website design tips: focus on mobile responsiveness to reach current online audiences; use bright, contrasting colors to draw attention to crucial website elements; and incorporate plenty of white space for intuitive usability. Additionally, consider interest-capturing visuals such as photos and videos for a website visitors will want to explore further. Incorporating these website design tips can make all the difference when it comes to creating a website that truly stands out from the crowd!

DIY platforms

Building a website is not as daunting as it may sound. With website design tools readily available to us, all it takes is a bit of creativity, some research and dedication to create your site in no time! Before building a website, the first step should be to decide on the purpose of the website. Asking yourself that question will guide you in designing the perfect website for yourself or for your business. Once you know what the website’s main message should be, you can then move forward with website design. There are many different website development tools which can make setting up a website easy, regardless of your technical experience. Whether you opt to use content management systems such as WordPress, open-source frameworks such as Bootstrap or design studio software like Adobe Dreamweaver; there are lots of options out there to choose from. Have fun with website design and once it goes live, let everyone know that your personal or business website is ready in style! Wordpress is by far the easiest and most documented platform. A quick search on YouTube will produce countless tutorials that will help you from start to finish of a web build, even E-commerce ones!

Of course, building a website yourself with little or no knowledge, will have a different end result compared to using an expert like myself and may not showcase your business in the best way! So, if you’d like some friendly professional help, feel free to contact me or find me on Facebook!

What Clients Have Said.

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Karen Turner
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Ryan help build our new business website. It's been an easy process, very helpful and would recommend his services. www.jbturnerfarmandcountrystore.co.uk
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Jason Morphett
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Ryan has delivered a professional website for us on agreed timescales and to budget. He's great to work with and we have outsourced our ongoing SEO work and some copy writing. Highly recommended!
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Adam Ruck
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Ryan created and maintains my website, this generates so much more work for me. He is very responsive with any questions I have and the website looks amazing. I would highly recommend him.
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Martyn Underwood
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Dog and Pig Design were brilliant, made everything so easy and ended up with a fantastic website. Thank you.
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Sean
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Couldn’t recommend a better place to not only get my website professionally made, but with the addition of getting SEO sorted. Dog and Pig Designs are the only place to go if you’re looking to get your website professionally done with the addition of writing traffic to your website ????????
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Ash
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Ryan did an amazing job making my website for me! Everything went smoothly and the final result looked incredible, few minor tweaks but overall happy :) would highly recommend
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Sarah Clark
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Working with Ryan on the revamp of my website has been a great experience. His professional and helpful approach, his excellent communication and his responsiveness have really made it an easy process. I would not hesitate to recommend Ryan!
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Dog and Pig has redeveloped our Love Corby website, it is now professional and easy to navigate. Our members will find it easier to update their profiles on the website. Thank you to Ryan for your patience and listening to our requests and also offering new ideas. Result - a great new website!
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Joanne Harper
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I couldn't recommend Ryan enough for his Website services. He built my website from scratch listening to everything that i wanted included. Being a complete technophobe Ryan then very patiently talked me through how to use the website. Nothing was too much trouble !
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Peter Baker
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Ryan was amazing at creating a website for myself. He was responsive and listened to my requests. We ended up with a great value site. Thank you Ryan.

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