Does Your Website Project Involve Personal Data? What Web Designers Need to Know
Web design projects often look simple on the surface, but web design data privacy issues can arise more often than many people expect. A new website, a redesign, or a migration to a new platform might seem like a purely technical job. But many website projects involve something else entirely: personal data. If a site […]
Planning for holidays -email tips and tricks for your out-of-office strategy
Are you irritating clients with your out-of-office messages? Now is a great time to plan what you are going to do. We were renewing our professional indemnity insurance this week and had some trouble with the forms. Having phoned and got some help we then sent them back with a few days to spare only […]
Web Designer vs Web Developer: Who Builds My Website?
If you’re trying to decide between a web designer vs web developer, it can be confusing to know who actually builds your website. Do you need a website designer or a website developer, and what’s the difference between the two? What is a website designer? Web design is a process of conceptualizing, planning, and building a […]
Web Designers: Will the 5 minute quick fix kill your business?
As a web designer, you pride yourself on being friendly and accessible. You are often tagged in Facebook groups and on LinkedIn for being helpful and supportive. In fact, you’ve built your business on recommendations and referrals. You often help people out with a five-minute fix. Did you know the 5-minute fix could kill […]
How to Hire Your First Web Designer
If you’re looking to hire a web designer and avoid the pitfalls of making a bad decision, this infographic will guide you through the steps you need to take. Looking for web designer hiring agreements?
Best Practices for Hiring the Right Web Designer for Your Business
Hiring a web designer frees up your time, adds differently skilled people to your organisation, and allows your business to scale up. It’s a natural step for entrepreneurs who are ready to grow. Things are much easier with a skilled web designer at your side, but the first challenge is finding the right person. Skills […]
What Pages Do I Need For My New Website?
When hiring a web designer one of the things you’ll discuss is what pages you need for your new website. At the very least you’ll be needing a Home page, About Us, FAQs, Contact Us, Services and Privacy and Terms of Conditions. Quite often, you’ll need more pages. So even if you’re looking for a “simple” […]
How to Track Your Time
Sonia was a web designer who worked from home. She found herself in a funk and didn’t feel she was as productive as she could be. At a friend’s urging, Sonia began using a time tracker. She was amazed to see how much time she was filling with minor tasks (like checking Facebook on her […]
10 Steps to Better Website Security
If you’ve got a website, you know that at some point someone will attempt to hack it. This post is about minimising the risk and protecting your website. Whilst hackers will continue to devise methods to infiltrate blogs and websites, it doesn’t mean we can make it as hard as possible for them to do […]
5 things to do BEFORE hiring a web designer
Getting your business website, or any website for that matter, created is an exciting project. But before you immerse yourself in the world of logos, colours and all things brand there are 5 things you need to do. You’ll be surprised at how many people don’t do number 5!
Web Designers: 21 Ways to Deal With Toxic Clients
Are you a web designer that’s not designing? If you are, the chances are it’s a toxic client that’s drained all your creativity. Whilst it’s not practical to ‘fire’ every single client who causes you grief: Especially if the problem is your own lack of assertiveness and unwillingness to protect your boundaries. Sometimes you want […]
Do You Need an SSL Certificate for Your Website?
If you’re thinking of getting your first website, or upgrading your website, you’ll be wanting to have a conversation about SSL with your website designer. What’s an SSL certificate got to do with websites? Secure sockets layer (SSL) is a type of security that protects customer names, phone numbers, addresses, credit card numbers and other sensitive data. […]
Scots or English law – what’s best for my Terms of Business?
Your Koffeeklatch Terms of Business work well in Scotland because the Scottish and English legal systems – in contract law – are closely aligned. (In other areas of law, there are significant differences. On buying and selling houses, for example, lots of people say Scots law is better, and they’re probably right!). But the […]
Are you worried your client is not paying you?
Having a problem getting paid? Your customer has been paying you for a few months and your lovely prepayment arrangement and terms of business have gone down well. You think they’re happy (you have checked haven’t you?) and you are happy with the work, but suddenly the payments slow up. If you are using KoffeeKlatch […]
Post-GDPR: Are you paying a web designer?
Did you know that the freelancer that gets trashed the most by a client is a web designer? If you talk to the client and ask them what went wrong they’ll tell you that they didn’t get what they wanted. If you ask the web designer what went wrong it’s the client wanting everything for […]
Hiring a Website Freelancer? 6 Must Ask Questions:
There are thousands of website freelancers you could hire, you’re spoilt for choice! The very first thing you need to ask yourself is – do you need a website designer or a website developer. A website designer is someone who focuses on making your website look good. A website developer works predominantly on the code of […]
Do you pay a freelance web designer?
Have you ever paid a freelance web designer? We hear horror stories from people who use freelance website designers: missed deadlines, non-functioning sites, disputes over payments. Some clients never get a website at all! On the other side, we hear stories of customers who want thousands of pounds worth of extras free of charge, who […]