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    Recommendations for an alternative to Magento Go

    What did you go for in the end? I'd also go for Wordpress + WooCommerce for this. It's ideal for smaller eCommerce sites, and for something that doesn't look like a traditional online shop. Otherwise I'd normally recommend OpenCart - if you want a traditional online shop. It's similar to...
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    A couple of things

    How about finding some layouts you think will work well and presenting them to the client? Often they think they know what they want, or present certain sites because they've seem them and liked the look, or think that will work best. However if you show them some layouts/sites/templates...
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    domain extensions

    That's stating not to buy them as a means of increasing traffic. It'd be wrong to infer from that that the actual TLD is treated any differently. Everything I can find regarding this indicates that all TLDs are still treated equally in terms of search ranking. The New TLDs are still...
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    domain extensions

    My understanding is that search engines don't apply any weight to an extension, other than country codes for region weighting. I've also seen Google highlight keywords in the extension - although only for the the uk in .co.uk and .uk - e.g. UK Web Hosting They may well do it for the new TLDs...
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    Mobile Friendly Websites

    Lol. How are you guys doing it from scratch? Are you using media queries and your own responsive code?
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    Web hosting?

    I'm not sure if you're still looking at this but it sounds like what you're looking for is a managed service. Companies do offer this but it can cost a fair bit depending on what you want. We've offered this free for charge for our clients opting for our Enterprise eCommerce Hosting...
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    Web hosting?

    The problem with a lot of the hosts mentioned is that they aren't UK companies and don't even have UK servers. If you're targeting primarily UK visitors then your visitors will get better performance and you'll in turn rank better if you go for a UK based web host. Heart Internet aren't the...
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    Mobile Friendly Websites

    When you're designing it can be great to have a vision for a particular look and feel and sometimes technology such as having that work for a range of screen sizes and devices can feel like it's getting in the way, but at the end of the day it's like Corrosive says, you design to facilitate the...
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    Google Sending Mobile Usability Warnings

    For new websites a responsive design is really the way to go, because of SparkCreative's point, devices and screens are getting larger - resolutions higher, and so varied that a mobile site is just a crippled experience and increasingly less relevant. Unfortunately we did a redesign only last...
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    domain extensions

    Yeah, there's no reason for a new extension not to to rank as well, and if it means you can have a domain with more relevant keywords or a better name, then it'd arguably be the better way to go. However despite that, and the lack of good .com and .co.uk domains left, I'd still like to have a...
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    hosting.. the next step?

    As an aside, really like your corporate identity and site design, very clean. You may want to update your footer, as currently still has 2014. All the best.
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    hosting.. the next step?

    Hi bigdave, I've not been on here a while but missed the design chat. Not sure if you're still looking but I'd recommend a reseller hosting or eCommerce hosting account, both of which in our case at least would mean a separate cPanel account for each website. As you say this way you can give...
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    .com or .co.uk

    Google is increasingly moving toward localised search, so that if you're searching for a web designer in the UK for example, you'll get very different results than in your searching in the US, even if you don't specify any location in your search. If you're targeting a UK market you're best...
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    Reseller Options - Website Builders

    Hi Davor It's pretty common for web designers to use Reseller Hosting, as this way you can provide a whole solution to your clients (who needn't even know you're a reseller), and not have to deal with asking them to order web hosting and having to make sure it's appropriate and so forth. We...
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    Web hosting - Do I need it and why?

    We normally use the land analogy to explain it too. Your land is the hosting, the web design is the house/shop, and the domain name is the address. If you don't have a good address, people might not find you. If your house/shop looks shoddy, people will quickly leave. And if your...
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