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Director
If you are a start-up owner or someone whose business survived this long without a website, and wondering if you need one, I will save you some time. The answer is yes, you do need one! Let people know you are open for business.
I am sure all of us have encountered at some point a 404 page and most of the times an ugly default server error message that stress you out as if you did something wrong!
It’s being three years since I wrote an article on how we deal with projects and requests from clients on a day-to-day basis. On the article, I explained how we use different tools to assign tasks to team members and how we collaborate as a team. As needs grow and technology advances, we need to evolve and find ways to adapt. We also need to improve and speed our processes to increase productivity and performance. As an experienced web development company in Nicosia, I would like to show you our two main upgrades regarding communication and collaboration. Moreover, I would like to share our team's day-to-day collaboration, which I believe advanced our team’s efficiency to the next level in the past year.
New markets, more customers, growth and expansion. Sounds exciting and promising! You have defined your overall business strategy and you have decided which countries to target; so, and next obvious step is to plan your digital strategy. What is the approach you should take and plan to follow? Do you need a multi-regional or a multilingual website? Do you need to localize your content and how will search engines know who you are targeting? As an established digital agency in Nicosia, here's our International 2018 SEO guide. We hope this will help your website become more finable and rank higher.
Contact pages are usually of the lowest priority when it comes to web design. That is totally wrong! The website contact page is one of the most important and most visited pages on a website. Take yourself for example; how many times have you visited a company’s contact page to view their location or get their telephone or email address?
At BLEND, a digital agency based in Nicosia, our main goal is to deliver the optimum result in terms of quality and effectiveness to all our projects. To achieve that, a smooth and effective process flow must take place, regardless of the size of the project. Below I will try and explain briefly our project life cycle process and the steps of each phase. Basically, how we blend tasks together at BLEND:
As an agency we deal with lots of projects and requests from clients on a day-to-day basis. As a production director my main responsibility is to get organized, assign to team members their daily tasks. Additionally, I needed to make sure each project is executed as planned while maintaining a smooth communication between the project team members. In order to do that we use a few tools that help us keep everything in harmony.
With almost 12 billion monthly searches, Google’s dominance in online search is undisputed. Although you probably use Google every day there are lots of useful Google search tricks which you are not aware of and can entertain you. Are you ready to have some fun with Google tricks?
If you look back a few years ago, web design & development were built on what we thought looked nice. As web developers and web designers, we used to focus on aesthetics and the brand without considering how the end-user would feel using the website or even if it was usable at all. We did things because they looked nice and because that was what our client wanted to see, neglecting to which degree how UX and Usability can help your business.
Responsive web design is the technique where a website responds to the user’s behavior. Based on screen size, platform and orientation.