JDR Group's 'Digital Prosperity' Blog

With more and more people turning to the internet as a method of finding new products and services, it is essential that your business has an easy to use website that clearly sells your product, encapsulates your business messages and encourages repeated use.

Considering that most new potential clients first interact with a company through their website, ensuring that your web design makes a great first impression is essential. As well as ensuring your website is easy to read, simple to navigate and clearly gets your business messages across, making sure that your website is on trend will really help to impress users.

Compared to a decade ago, web design has become much easier and more accessible, allowing almost all businesses to have a stylish website in their quiver of promotional arrows for a relatively low cost.

When a visitor lands on your website your end goal is for them to take action, whether it be a website purchase or a service enquiry. You may not think it but the actual layout of your internal pages can play a massive part in your visitor conversion rate. When reviewing your internal page layout, you must consider the below points:

As you may have guessed from our other articles, web design is not easy. There is a lot of thought that goes into the process, not to mention time and money. With all the important elements that must be considered when building and maintaining a website, it can be quite easy for mistakes to be made. A lot of mistakes can go unidentified if the site isn’t regularly checked and, while they may not be mistakes that will render your website unusable, if left untreated, they will certainly hinder your website from reaching its full potential. Here are 4 web design mistakes that could be hindering your website.

For the last number of years, page speed has been a clear and solid ranking factor in Google's algorithm for desktop searches. Now, Google is looking at introducing this in mobile search results! Google has recently announced what they are calling the “Speed Update”. In this article, we cover the key things you need to know about the update...

When building a website it's important to consider both the design and the functionality of the website. Both will play a big role in portraying the way you will be seen by your traffic and they can both make or break your website, but which is more important?

As we start the new year of 2018 it comes the time where we start reviewing the previous year gone by. This is even more important when you review your year from a business perspective. Reviewing your year from a business perspective will help to see whether or not your previous year was a successful or not. When it comes to sales and turnover you will already know how successful your year was but do you know how successful your website was? In this article, I will be discussing what you need to review in order to be able to see whether or not your website has performed as well as it should have.

2017 was a great year for website design. There were many innovations regarding both visuals and technology. Now, as a new year begins, it's a great time to look to the future and make some predictions in order get ahead of the game. Here is a quick look at 5 website design trends we expect to rule 2018!

When the internet first came about, websites could only be made of text and hyperlinks. Now though, it is difficult to find a website that doesn't include at least a single image. They're used for page decoration, thumbnails, to show product examples, buttons and much more. With so many uses, it's not hard to fill a page with big, beautiful imagery. However, if you're planning on adding images to your website there are a few guidelines that you need to follow.

Let's take a look...