Creative Ideas Blog

A second look at 2017 web design trends! Web design trends keep the web moving, just 10 years ago we had the web 2.0 movement, through web 3.0 in the last several years, could 2017 see web design taking a new direction and a new trend dominating? There’s an updated 2020 web design article available …

The benefits of using WordPress as a Content Management System (CMS) WordPress is the worlds most popular open source platform. It is simple, easy to use and provides a super friendly interface making it one of the most user friendly content management systems on the planet. WordPress started life as a blogging tool way back …

2017 is almost here and it’s time to get the heads up on the 2017 web design trends and predictions. 2016 has seen (as expected) a massive growth in clean, flat, parallax designs and the use of big imagery dominating a website. Mobile design has taken off massively due to Google putting a huge emphasis …

Social media marketing is a scary and daunting place, not knowing which way to turn, can often lead you to make decisions through gut instinct, rather than science. We are not saying ignore your instincts, but trust in the science that helps to make those gut instincts turn into profit rather than failure. The truth …

Could Virtual Reality websites become the norm and who would they benefit? There’s been a lot said about virtual reality apps and devices, and with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg purchasing a leading Virtual Reality company – it’s clear Virtual reality will be making a big impact on our lives, but what will the impact be …

ALT Agency Snapchat! We’re all pretty excited about the potential of Snapchat and the massive growth and opportunities available. We’ve spent the last couple of months slowly analysing the potential of Snapchat and looking at ways to maximise it, our initial findings and research show that there’s a huge, huge, huge, potential in Snapchat and …

Local SEO has recently been enjoying it’s time in the limelight, which is great news for those who rely on it and those looking to master it. Google recently announced a 210% increase in searches like “stores open now” or “food open now” and a 130% increase in searches such as “where to find/buy/get”. This …

Google Analytics Referral Spam – Are you getting tons of hits to your website, quite often from Russia and seeing in your analytics that the Russian traffic has a 100% bounce rate? More often than not it’s Google Analytics referral spam. This “Ghost traffic” can be a real pain, giving you an incorrect bounce rate …

How to fix hacked Wordpress websites and how to prevent your Wordpress website getting hacked again! Wordpress is the most popular open source Content Management System (CMS) on the market today. It’s free cost, ease of use and millions of readily available plugins make it an irresistible choice for web developers and business small and …