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I’m please to announce that the sale of my signed Manchester United shirt collection raised £2,475 towards the North West Regional Spinal Injuries Centre fundraising appeal (click here). Packaging them up and mailing them out was difficult but it’s for a good cause and, let’s face it, they’re just bits…

Anyone who tells you that you shouldn’t use WordPress (WP) for your website ought to have a very good reason to do so, and not just generalise with stories about website hacks. I’ve started on this topic because I recently read an article on a blog of a company that…

How time flies when you’re having fun! And that’s exactly what it’s been — designing websites for lots of new and exciting people and businesses over the last decade that I’ve been based here in sunny Sefton. I should mention, nice and early in this blog, that I’m not from…

If you have your own website or if you’re at the stage of just thinking about it, you should definitely have a Google account. The big G provides its users with a huge amount of FREE services ranging from everyday stuff like email and search, to webmaster tools like Google…

Making your website accessible to as many people as possible sounds like the obvious choice, but what is website accessibility and how can it help my business? Well, putting it quite simply, disabled people use computers as well but not necessarily in the same way as able-bodied people, and making…

Boring, isn’t it… Cooped up indoors, especially now the weather’s getting better, but we all have to do our bit… We’re all soldiers in this war against Coronavirus but if your business has ground to a halt, perhaps this window of  time presents you with the opportunity to come out…

Have you ever heard the word taxonomy when discussing website design? Don’t worry this has nothing to do with HMRC 🙂 Some web design companies advertise their service as offering ‘truly bespoke web design’, but how true is that? Almost anyone can do a Google search about colour theory and…

So you’re looking for someone to design a new website for you — what do you need to look for? Here’s the Leeming Design guide to choosing a good web designer. Portfolio of web design work examples Make sure you take a good look at the work they’ve produced previously.…

Setting up a new website can be a daunting task if you know nothing about it, but here’s the Leeming Design ‘handy guide’ to all most things website design and hosting related. Let’s start from the beginning… What are domain names?… Example: YourWebsite.com — Your website’s going to need one…

Well, the answer to that is — it depends on your technical ability! — but I usually tell my clients that if they can log into Facebook and upload a photo of their dinner, along with a few words about why it’s so tasty, they can probably manage a WordPress-based…

Free business card design by a professional designer — yes folks — you read that correctly, but there’s a catch!… When you use Leeming Design for a new website design I’ll include free business card and general business stationery design for you (take a look at some examples below). That…

Here at Leeming Web Design in Southport, I’m involved in creating and maintaining all kinds of websites — from simple brochure-style websites to full-blown eCommerce sites that accept debit and credit cards as well as the usual PayPal and bank transfers. I’m currently working on web design projects for local…