By Tim Lees 21st March 2018
The front page of a website is more often than not the single most important page when it comes to your website. The homepage has a difficult job as it needs to do many different jobs; it often draws the most traffic of any single page on your website and to a first time visitor it is usually the first page that is seen so the homepage has to act as a shop window to your service or products, inviting users to convert in the guise of either sign...
By Jordan Hall 20th September 2011
We recently posted about the launch of BanksyTshirts.org. If this interested you, you may also be interested in the recent launch of another Banksy t-shirts website! Rapid Web Services is happy to announce the recent launch a t-shirt website based solidly on our main and highly, flexible e-commerce system. This website offers a full e-commerce experience for both the visitors browsing the advanced front-end shopping basket/cart system, and for ...
By Jordan Hall 31st August 2011
We're very happy to announce to recent launch of Banky T-shirts.org, a website that sells t-shirts from the graphic artist Banksy, and donates £1 of each Banksy t-shirt to a charity of your choice! This website uses our in-house e-commerce system to power the online e-commerce shopping experience and the Wordpress blogging system to power the Banksy News section. This Banksy t-shirt website is a great example of how our in-house e-commerce sys...
By Jordan Hall 18th May 2010
"The Nudge lets you exchange and manage brief reviews with people you know on everything that’s happening in your City, and beyond. Let your starting point in choosing anything (from a hotel in San Francisco or a restaurant in London, to a new book or a concert in New York) be the reviews of people you know, whose opinion you trust. The Nudge is also launching weekly City Editions for London and New York. These can be accessed through the ...
By Jordan Hall 29th April 2010
Rapid Web Services is pleased to announce the recent redesign of a long term client's website, Body Sculpt UK. The new web design of Body Sculpt UK features an entirely custom web design, templating and integration into both existing and brand new textual content. The new website design also features the use of a dynamic blog system to go alongside the static content of the main site. Links also exist to various social networking and social me...
By Jordan Hall 16th February 2010
While promoting your website via search engine optimisation techniques and Internet advertising campaigns, it is important not to forget the power of the social web for website promotion. The social web consists of blogs (or 'web logs'), social networking, social bookmarking websites and micro-blogging services. So, what are all of these social web elements? Let me explain. Blog - A blog, also called a 'web log' is a series of articles called ...
By Jordan Hall 8th February 2010
WordPress, possibly the most popular blogging software out there, is set to heavily open source the design of its user interface this year. WordPress is an open source blogging solution written in PHP and powered by a MySQL database backend. Code wise, it is entirely open source and licensed in entirety under the GNU General Public License (version 2), and as of typing this, it is used by over 200 million websites worldwide. Design in WordP...