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Website workout- ten tips to learn together

It can be really easy to get into knots with websites. If you’re not sure what the goal is, then it’s tempting to add in plug-ins and features you may not need. I am planning my goals for this website and making a list of actions I need to take. As a website designer, it’s far too easy for me to start tinkering! I’ve deliberately sat on my hands on all my own sites this year until I had space in my diary to focus. December and January now feel like good times for me to review this website and I’ve scheduled the task into my diary. I thought it would be useful to make notes as I go along and document in future posts so that we can learn together. What do you think?

Websites, Working with Hello LovelyBerenice Howard-Smith23 November 2020website design, UX design, squarespace, WordPress, business goals, ten tips Comment

When you need a designer but you can't afford one, what do you do?

Many people can struggle to find the budget for design. Posts that start with ‘I’m new, I haven’t got much money and I need a designer. Can I trade skills/do I go to a low cost site/competition or pitch site/do you know a cheap designer/can you work for exposure or haggle?’ concern me as it not only devalues design, it could also end up a false economy. Here’s a better way.

Design tips for your business, Working with Hello Lovely, Websites, Books and publishing, Branding design, Print DesignBerenice Howard-Smith19 January 2020cheap design, business planning, Andrew and Pete, drive the networkComment

How to get, and give, meaningful design feedback

How you direct the question and handle the responses matters. How you feel about it matters too. After all, this is putting your brief to your designer to the test. How well do you know your clients?

Books and publishing, Branding design, Design tips for your business, Print Design, Social Media Design, Websites, Working with Hello LovelyBerenice Howard-Smith11 January 2020user testing, feedback, graphic design, branding, copyright, social media, social media images

How I work with you to create a Squarespace website

I love creating websites and working with my clients to create user friendly websites that work for the audience. It’s really important that the process of creating a website is easy too. I work with both WordPress and Squarespace.

Websites, Working with Hello LovelyBerenice Howard-Smith21 October 2019Squarespace, website design, website

Squarespace and SEO

I offer both WordPress and Squarespace sites because both have different approaches that suit my clients so I get to hear comparisons a lot! Almost everyone can agree that Squarespace is an easy-to-use content management system with beautiful templates. But Squarespace can’t seem to shake off the reputation it has for poor SEO…

WebsitesBerenice Howard-Smith6 May 2019SEO, website design, squarespaceComment

Does perfection really matter?

I was talking to a copywriter client last week about his website, which we are in the process of creating, and he happened to say hard it was writing his own words. I hear this a lot and it’s the same for me with my promotional work and this website. When you go public it’s scary isn’t it?

Print Design, Project Management, Branding design, Design tips for your business, WebsitesBerenice Howard-Smith10 February 2019design, Pecha Kucha, content

#codeweekeu, should designers know how to code?

It was CodeWeek EU from 6th to 21st October 2018. This initiative is all bringing code to all, making it fun and engaging. Supported by the major tech companies like Apple, it’s for all ages. One of the key aims has been about developing skills and I guess leads to the question, does a designer need to know code?

Project Management, Design career, WebsitesBerenice Howard-Smith19 October 2018#codeweekeu, UX designComment

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