Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Every website has one, but not every website’s ‘Contact Us’ page has been designed carefully and thoughtfully in order to give the best chance for conversions. You have no doubt got a strong SEO campaign on the go, which, combined with your sterling social media efforts and pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, is generating a pretty decent […]

In our hosting article last week, a mention was made of the various applications that many hosts make available to customers such as WordPress, Joomla and Drupal. This week we’ll be looking at WordPress, which is by far the most popular of all the applications out there. This is because it’s highly usable, easy to […]

The “mobile first” web design philosophy has been bandied around now for some years. When we first started to hear about it – probably back in about 2009 or so, possibly a bit earlier – I think it’s fair to say that many people were at first sceptical about the approach. And at that time, […]

 It often seems that hardly a day goes by without some internet security risk hitting the mainstream media and last month was no exception. September gave us a vulnerability that’s predicted to have even further reaching effects than the Heartbleed bug. What’s more, the vulnerability didn’t just affect Windows systems for a change, but Mac […]

Have you taken a look at Periscope yet? You should have done by now. But, if somehow you’ve managed to miss the sudden rise of this brand new Twitter-owned social network, then allow me to first enlighten you as to exactly what it is and what it does. What Is Periscope? Put simply, Periscope is […]

Designing above the fold is perhaps one of the oldest guiding principles of design. Even before web developers hijacked the term, ‘above the fold’ used to refer to the upper half of the front page of the newspaper, i.e. where you would put your main headline, the name of the paper, tagline and eye-catching image. […]

Business Branding and Logo Design Making waves in the business world can be a hard task, and sometimes it can be hard to tell if you’re even causing a few ripples around the edge of an ever-expanding pool of competition. You know your company is great, but as yet you’ve yet to establish that all […]

Without a shadow of a doubt, WordPress is miles away the most popular content management system (CMS) in the world. Last year, the ManageWP Blog released some research that reported that a whopping 74.6 million sites out there depend upon WordPress, with roughly 50% of those hosted on the free WordPress.com. There is good reason […]

Your website is the most important aspect of your online presence bar none. It doesn’t matter if you’ve got 100,000 followers on Twitter, 10,000 likes on your Facebook page, 4,000 connections on LinkedIn and an established and authoritative presence on Google+ – if none of these sites are pointing your followers towards your website, then […]

Search engine optimisation is a huge part of what makes a website successful. As a web designer you have to walk a fine line between making the best looking site, but you also want people to visit that site. A website’s content producers do a lot of the SEO work, but it is the designer’s […]