PHP 7 upgrade – Is your website ready?
What is PHP 7? As a website customer of Rouge, your website is built, in part using an open-source web development language call PHP (Personal Home Page, but now stands…
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Building a WordPress Website The Right Way
There is no doubt that WordPress is both popular and a powerful way of creating websites for all purposes and one that is becoming the Content Management System (CMS) of…
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Why using agencies with integrated teams is better than using ones that outsource or off-shore some of the work
First what is Outsourcing? Outsourcing is a very common practice which involves contracting out business functions and processes to third party providers. Sometimes these are in the same country, in…
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How to Make Sure Your Website is GDPR Compliant
The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) became law on the 25th May 2018, its aim to improve the protection of individuals’ data and privacy, which is of course something…
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What is Content Creation and Why is it Important for SEO?
It has long been said that ‘Content is King’ when it comes to Search Engine Optimisation, but this has changed yet again just recently with Google’s latest Quality Guidelines. These…
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Ten Tips That Enhance The Website Design Process
There is a lot more to the perfect website than making it look ‘pretty’ and it is vital to remember that no matter how good the website development or design…
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The Art of Success in Website Design
At Rouge we have one main aim! To deliver our website projects on time and within budget, whilst at the same time exceeding the expectations of our customers. But creating…
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Top 5 Digital Marketing Trends
Top 5 Digital Marketing Trends That Will Help In Promoting Your Brand! There is an old story about the man who designed the perfect mousetrap, one that was humane, easy…
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HTML Web Design – Body Tags and SEO
In out last post we talked about HTML and how useful the tags that reside in the <Head> section (the bit that is mostly hidden from the viewer) are. This…
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HTML Web Design Tags and SEO
Even though HTML is still the bedrock of every website, it is not mentioned that much anymore. Instead web designers talk about Cascading StyleSheets and the like. However, the humble…
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The Pros and Cons of Using WordPress
The Growth of WordPress There is no doubt that the number of websites that use WordPress continues to grow at break neck speed. There are many reasons for this, one…
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Some Reasons To Have Your Website Built By A WordPress Agency
It’s hard to believe that nearly 2 million small businesses in the UK don’t have a website. According to the statistics this is costing them over £340 billion pounds a…
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Creating Fast WordPress Sites That Convert
It’s No Secret That Slow Sites Are Going to be No Good in 2018, there being three good reasons for this. Slow Pages = Will cause the site to have…
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How to Make Your WordPress URL’s SEO Friendly
We all know that websites are built for other reasons than to impress Google, but there is a lot of potential traffic and sales to gain by getting a site…
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Thoughts on User Interface Design in 2018
Over the past years website design has in some people’s view, become a little staid, no one wanting to break the mould. For many this means all sites seem to…
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SEO in 2018 and the Implications for Website Content
SEO, or Search Engine Optimisation is all about ensuring that a website is configured so that Google and the other Search Engines ‘like what they see’ and list it when…
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Why good user interface design is so Important
Whatever the device, it has to have a ‘user interface’, this could be as simple as a telephone keyboard, but whichever form it takes, it is the way in which…
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A Bad User Interface Is Like A Scary Receptionist
Picture yourself visiting a business office for the first time and then imagine a really grumpy receptionist behind the reception desk. Stunned (and slightly afraid) by what you see, you…
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The Importance of Fixing User Experience (UX) Issues Before These Issues Cost You Customers
The word on the ‘digital street’ is that User experience (UX) is now the most important part of any website or app. One top group of pundits / experts, the…
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Things Not To Do When Designing a Website
Many people assume that website design is a piece of cake, but when you look a bit deeper it soon becomes apparent that if you want a website that is…
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