Category: Business

FCS Websites is now Intention: Web design for people doing positive things

I’ve taken the plunge and rebranded my web design business. FCS Websites is now called Intention and focusing on clients doing positive things. If you’re a person, company or charity doing positive things I’d love to help you achieve your online goals.

The Friday Habit: Setting aside time to work ‘on’ your freelance business

If you set aside Fridays to work on developing your freelance business, what would you spend the time doing?

Ecommerce Enlightenment ebook – now on Amazon

Ecommerce Enligtenment is now on Amazon With lockdown encouraging more and more businesses online, get the knowledge you need to succeed in our guide to selling online. Save £1000s and reduce stress by tackling your ecommerce project in the right way. Business to consumer ecommerce was worth £137bn in the UK in 2017, up 16% […]

A lockdown tale of two ecommerce orders

Since lockdown began, ecommerce activity is through the roof, many people are working from home and the postal service and couriers are slammed. Here are two drastically different ecommerce experiences – the names have been changed to protect the innocent (and stop me getting sued). Read the full article on FCS Websites

Give website users what they want

I’ve lost track of the number of websites I’ve been on that won’t give me the information I am looking for. I see this as being one of two reasons – either lack of user centric design (don’t know what people want), or trying to hide the info on purpose (hidden agenda). Lack of user […]

PHP development – Systems vs custom made

We’ve used a variety of PHP content management and ecommerce systems over the years and have gone in the direction of using existing systems rather than creating custom made systems for clients. We chose this route as using a ready made starting point reduces development costs and theoretically makes life easier when it comes to […]