Ecommerce Web Design Manchester
In today’s digital age, having a professional and user-friendly ecommerce website is crucial for success in the competitive online marketplace. At dsgnuk, we specialise in creating bespoke ecommerce web design in Manchester that not only look stunning but also drive sales and conversions for our clients in Manchester and beyond.
Tailored Solutions for Your Business
We understand that every business is unique, which is why we take a personalised approach to ecommerce web design. Our team works closely with you to understand your brand, target audience, and business objectives, ensuring that your ecommerce website is tailored to meet your specific needs and goals.
User-Friendly Design
A seamless user experience is essential for keeping visitors engaged and maximising conversions. Our expert designers at dsgnuk create intuitive and easy-to-navigate ecommerce websites that make it effortless for customers to browse products, add them to their cart, and complete the checkout process. With a focus on usability and functionality, we ensure that every aspect of your ecommerce site is optimised for a smooth and enjoyable shopping experience.
Mobile Responsiveness
With the increasing use of mobile devices for online shopping, having a mobile-responsive ecommerce website is more important than ever. Our ecommerce designs are fully responsive, meaning they adapt seamlessly to any screen size or device, ensuring that your customers can shop with ease whether they’re using a smartphone, tablet, or desktop computer.
SEO-Friendly Practices
We understand the importance of visibility in driving traffic to your ecommerce website. That’s why we incorporate SEO-friendly practices into our ecommerce designs, helping your site rank higher in search engine results and attract more organic traffic. From keyword optimisation to site structure and metadata, we ensure that your ecommerce website is primed for success in the competitive online landscape.
Why choose us?
When it comes to ecommerce web design in Manchester, dsgnuk ltd is your trusted partner for creating professional, high-performing online stores. With our tailored solutions, user-friendly design, mobile responsiveness, and SEO-friendly practices, we help businesses like yours stand out and succeed in the digital marketplace.
We have been established for nearly 20 years providing ecommerce web design services to local businesses in Manchester. We were awarded Business of the year in Oldham Business Awards 2018
Ready to take your ecommerce business to the next level? Contact us today to discuss your project and discover how dsgnuk.com can help you create an ecommerce website that works for you and your customers.
WordPress security how to stay protected?
WordPress is the most popular content management system (CMS), with 43.2% of all websites running on its software. WordPress now powers about 23% of websites on internet. It has seen a surge in growth in the past few years. Unfortunately, its popularity attracts all sorts of cybercriminals who exploit the platforms security vulnerabilities. However, this doesn’t mean that WordPress has a bad security system, security breaches can happen due to users lack of awareness. Therefore, its best to apply precautionary security measures before someone attempts to hack your website. There are methods users can use to improve their WordPress security and protect their site from various cyberattacks. For instance, WordPress released a regular software that updates and improves performance and security. These updates also protect your site from cyber threats. Updating your WordPress version is one of the simplest ways to improve WordPress security. Nearly 50% of WordPress sites are running on an older WordPress version, making them more vulnerable. It would be beneficial to check whether you have the latest WordPress version you can check this by opening your WordPress admin area, and navigate to dashboard->updates on the left menu panel. On the other hand, you could just enable automatic updates however, this could crash your website due to incompatibility with older plugins or themes.
One of the most common mistakes users make is using easy-to-guess usernames, such as “admin”, “administrator” or “test”. This puts your site at higher risk of brute force attacks. Moreover, attackers also use this type of attack to target WordPress sites that don’t have strong passwords. It’s recommended that your username and password are unique and complex. The longer the password the safer your WordPress site will be from hackers. It would be beneficial to use special symbols and numbers instead of well-known letters.
Enabling URL lockdown protects your login page from unauthorised IP addresses and brute force attacks. To do that you need a web application firewall 9WAF) service such as Cloudflare or Sucuri. Using Cloudflare, its possible to configure a zone lockdown rule. It specifies the URLs you want to lockdown and the IP range allowed to access these URLs. Anyone outside the specified IP range won’t be able to access them. Sucuri has a similar feature called URL path blacklist. Firstly, you add your login page URL to the blacklist so that no one can have access to it. Then you safelist authorised IP addresses to access the login page.
Its important that before making any changes, we strongly advice you to back up the old.htaccess file. If anything goes wrong, you’ll be able to restore your site easily.
Its important to note that blocklisting is effective only against known threats. Hackers can design malware specifically to evade detection by tools that use a blocklist system. Whilst safelisting offers a more robust security, it can also be more complex to implement, especially if you want a third party to do it, they will need information on all the applications you use.
if you are interested in some more tips regarding keeping your WordPress site secure visit https://dsgnuk.com/bloghome/ for more information.
Labours Free Superfast Broadband Scheme
On the campaign trail for December’s general election Labour has promised to provide free superfast broadband for every home and business across the country if elected. Labour plans to bring parts of BT into public ownership while establishing a British Broadband public service. The service is expected to boost 5G connectivity and end slow coverage around the country, with the service aimed to be delivered within a decade.
The rollout of the scheme would see areas with the worst broadband access receiving the new publicly owned broadband followed by towns and smaller cities and finally areas with ultrafast or superfast broadband currently in place gaining access to the publicly owned superfast broadband. The party has said that on average a person would save £30.30 a month, with funding coming from Labour’s Green Transformation fund and taxing corporations like Amazon, Facebook and Google.
Criticism of the free broadband promise has come from member of the opposition like Tory Secretary of the State for Digital Culture, Media and Sport Nicky Morgan calling the proposal a “fantasy plan” and that Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour party, “will promise anything”. The prime minister Boris Johnson has also criticised the plan calling it a “crackpot scheme that would involve many, many tens of billions of taxpayers’ money nationalising a British business”.
Why would you need a website?
The internet has become the main source of information for people, without a website your company could be losing business simply because they don’t know about you. That’s why we are listing four reason as to why you need a website.
Reaching new customers
Having an online presence can help your business reach new customers that you wouldn’t be able to reach without it. Compared to paper-based advertisement a website can reach a wider geographical range, causing new customer to come to your business that may not be from your area.
The effect that an online presence has on a business is the ability for the business to always be open. A website is always live and can attract new customers away from regular business hours, meaning that potential customers can find and research into your business even when you aren’t available. Your company’s visibility also improves with a website. A survey found that 81% of people research businesses and services online before making their final purchase, without an online presence a business could lose clients to their competitors as they have no way of competing. Being more visible online means that potential clientele can see and compare your business, it also means that you can compare your business to your competitors and improve and/or strengthen on different areas.
Your businesses credibility increases
Looking online has become the common place for people to research a company or product, with a survey finding that 56% of people say that they don’t trust businesses without a website. A website is often the first impression for potential customers to see if your company is for them and if they can trust you.
Being in control of how your company is seen can benefit the company’s representation and help to make the business stand out among competitors. This could be through the use of informing the customers with basic information so they can get an understanding of what the company is about. As well as the use of testimonials, which can be tailored to only show positive reviews of the company, unlike the reviews that can be seen on social media platforms.
A website saves you time and money
The content that a website features can help a company save time answering company question. By having a frequently asked questions section on a website a company can free up the time that you spend answering emails and/or phone calls asking for basic information.
Design a website can seem difficult, however, by hiring web developers to design the website you can ensure that your website is professional looking and functions as needed. The expense of hiring web developers to design a website can be costly but the return on investment for websites is better compared with any other form of advertisement. This means that a website saves you more money in the long term when it’s compared with other advertisement like flyers, which need to be updated for a higher cost then updating text on a website.
You’re in control
In closing having a website has never been easier or more beneficial for your company!
Get a website today with DSGNUK. Call our friendly team on 0161 627 1857 for a free, no obligation talk about getting a website.
The Effects of Social Media
The effects Social Media has on your business is important because it offers companies a way to connect one-to-one with their target audience, it allows you to reach, nurture, and engage with your target audience. when a business use's Social Media to connect with their audience, they can use Social Media to generate brand awareness and drive sales.
There are a few reasons why Social Media can effect your business, firstly either you are a start-up or a small business, whether you are an online store or an enterprise, Social Media is vital for your business marketing strategy. Around 71% of consumers who have had a good Social Media service experience with a brand are more than likely to recommend it to others.
Social Media has greatly effected and transformed the business landscape. It is one of the most important aspects of digital marketing, which provides incredible benefits that help reach millions of customers.
For businesses just starting or ones that have been around a while, either way its important to know why you need to be on Social Media and how it is going to affect your business.
There are several questions a business owner must ask themselves before they begin planning their Social Media strategy.
- What can I do to attract my target audience?
- What are my objectives regarding my Social Media strategy?
- How can I use Social Media to grow my business?
The effects Social Media can have an immense impact on your business and can be one of the most powerful marketing channels to enable you yourself as a business owner to reach us to your audience.
Firstly, if brands are just starting out social media can be very beneficial for increasing your brand awareness. This is one of the effects social media can have on businesses that is easy to achieve at first. On social media, people are always looking to branch out and explore new and unfamiliar brands, this is important for you to showcase your brands authenticity. For instance, creating your own branded hashtags for a social media campaign can make you more memorable to new consumers.
One of the effects of social media is it's easy to receive feedback from customers. Customers can share their opinions about your products or services directly in the comment section of your posts or even on their own stories on social media. Ensuring you are up to date with your customer feedback will show you the strengths and weaknesses of your social media marketing strategies. Whether you receive compliments or praise for your products or services, publicly responding to each individual is a great way for you to present your company as reputable and professional, this overall shows your customers and audience that you care about their feedback.
Whilst there are countless positive effects social media has on businesses, there are several variables that determine how your audience engages with your business on social channels. Factors such as the type of content your business creates to represent itself as well as how frequent you post can affect the ways your audience interacts with your business. Experimenting with different elements of social media can help you figure out what works for your business.
For more information regarding how to get your business started on social media and attract your targeted audience here's a few more tips https://business.gov.au/online/social-media-for-business.
The fascination with likes and followers has risen with the increased popularity of social media. The fascination with posts being liked is where many users are gaining a sense of self-worth. Caring about others opinions about yourself is something that has been around for a long time but with the rise in social media has caused the importance of stranger’s opinions. However, the effect of being able to get an instant response on how ‘liked’ you are could have a negative effect on your mental health. The importance of likes and followers has become a new, easy way to measure of self-worth, fame and success, with many people gathering a following from posting pictures of themselves or their art. This idea of fame has caused people to create an image of their life that only shows the positives of their life, creating a false sense of what success looks like as they are often posting a well edited, false version of their life. This can be many of negative effects of social media.
If your interested in more of our blogs with have a variety you are able to read through at https://dsgnuk.com/bloghome/.
Social Media Manchester
At DSGNUK we provide social media services in Manchester to help upcoming or current businesses with how to make their brand visible across social media platforms.
First and foremost, I think many people can agree that social media in Manchester and across a lot of the world has come a long way in the last few years and become overwhelmingly popular in today’s generation. As social media is used for many purposes such as entertainment, social interaction and access to news and information, many businesses use it to their advantage to broadcast their business on their social media platforms to promote their business and gain an audience.
Social media is online communication that allows you to interact with your customers and share online information in real time. This can help you to reach your customers better, create online networks and sell and promote your products and services. It can be easy to get carried away when using social media for your business. Its also wise to tread carefully and be aware of both the pros and cons before you start.
It doesn’t matter if you run a small local shop or a big national company. Social media is more than just a trend. It is an essential piece of your business marketing strategy. However, social media is not enough to drive business growth. Social platforms can help you connect with your customers and increase awareness about your brand, and boost your leads and sales.
The main advantage you get from social media is the global audience it has the power to attract. By using features such as hashtags or location, every user from around the world can view your content and interact.
When businesses are first created it can be quite stressful and confusing on what platforms your business will most benefit off, although there are some clear winners when it comes to active users, here are some key points to consider before jumping straight in.
Which platform does my audience belong do?
Which one has the most beneficial features for the company goals?
What platforms do your competitors use?
If you are interested in what social media platforms are best for your company and which have a better percentage of spreading awareness regarding your brand here’s some additional information for you to browse through.
Turning towards social media for promoting your brand can be a good first step, as marketing costs add up, not every business can afford huge campaigns. You can get a lot of value for your money with social media advertising. Your business, regardless of size or budget, has an opportunity to grow your audience and reach your objectives through ads on social platforms such as Facebook and Instagram. Even if platforms such as Instagram are primarily geared towards engagement, there are established ways to increase sales on them.
For more blogs to do with social media we have a variety on our website .
Instagram has released its much-anticipated video platform
Instagram has released its much-anticipated video platform.
This new app will make it possible for all users to upload hour-long video content that will live within the app on its new IGTV platform and a newly launched IGTV standalone app.
The Facebook-owned company announced IGTV during an event in San Francisco in June, also sharing the news that the social media site has reached 1 billion users.
“On Instagram, people are watching 60 percent more video than they did just last year. An entirely new category of video now exists, and it’s being made by creators. Teens may be watching less TV, but they’re watching more creators online”. said Instagram CEO Kevin Kevin Systrom
The IGTV video content is optimized to fit how users watch video on their phones. Content will start playing as soon as a user clicks on the TV-shaped icon within Instagram or opens the IGTV app.
“The launch of IGTV is really exciting because it now means that Instagram covers all the bases. Influencers will be able to post photos and videos to their feed, make Stories that last for 24 hours, stream live videos and make these new 60 minute TV shows,” says Brooks. “It also means that influencers will no longer need to redirect their audiences to YouTube, they will be able to post all of their content in one place. I imagine that if an influencer has been considering starting a YouTube channel, this update might persuade them otherwise.”
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Ansar Ali wins Prestigious Oldham Business Award
Press Release 15.05.18
Ansar Ali was named 'Business Person of the Year' at the Gala Dinner event at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in Oldham on the 11th of May 2018.
Ansar Ali is the Business Development Manager of the well established design and marketing agency in Oldham called 'dsgnuk'. Ansar Ali along with Kabir Ahmed founded the business in 2008. Both of them use to work together in Tesco Supermarket and travelled to University together studying design.
An emotional Ansar Ali said "Back in 2002 we use to drive to University and talk about one day opening our own design business in Oldham, we wanted to do something different; something that wasn't done before in our community. It was only an idea and we never thought we would manage it forget winning an award!"
Kabir Ahmed, co-founder of dsgnuk said "This is a proud moment for everyone at dsgnuk, he has an excellent team behind him and his work ethic is second to none, he thoroughly deserves this recognition."
Ansar was up against some stiff competition in his category, the ever enthusiastic Frank Rothwell from Portcullis, the veteran and millionaire who was on Bear Grylls survival show 'The Island.' Frank later came over and congratulated Ansar on his win.
The event was at its 10th year anniversary and is the envy of the North West; one of the best attended and prestigious business awards. The event was attended by over 600 business guests and was sold out one month prior to the event. It was hosted by arguably the best British impressionist and impersonator Rory Bremner. Making the audience laugh with his impersonations of Donald Trump and lightening the mood and tension between each award category.
It was also a very emotional night as Ansar broke down in tears after his name was announced and a flood of local business people, friends and colleagues went over to congratulate him from the audience. Dave Benstead HR Director at Diodes Semiconductors PLC who was also awarded the Life Time Achievement award on the night said "Ansar is a brilliant young man and this award has been a long time coming, I am really happy for him and he is an excellent role model for young aspiring business men and women in Oldham and beyond."
Ansar Ali has made history by being the first person of Asian ethnic background to win this important award. However, he is not new to winning awards as he has previously won the Technology Business of the Year at the Asian Business Association awards in 2006 and also was named Emerging Business Leader at the Oldham Mayors Business Charity Ball in 2015.
You can find out more about Ansar Ali and his business success by visiting www.dsgnuk.com and www.ansarali.co.uk
Left to right. Karim Ahmed, Kabir Ahmed, Jake Carney, Ansar Ali, Shakil, Matthew Cotman-Tarkenter. (All members of team dsgnuk)
Ansar Ali Business Person of the Year holding up his award
Left to right. Jake Carney, Karim Ahmed, Shakil, Ansar Ali, Matthew Cotman-Tarkenter, Kabir Ahmed (All members of team dsgnuk)
Notes for Editor:
Ansar Ali can be contacted by
ansar@dsgnuk.com
07885587930
0161 627 1857
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Left to right
Karim Ahmed, Kabir Ahmed, Jake Carney, Ansar Ali, Shakil, Matthew Cotman-Tarkenter
(All members of team dsgnuk)
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Ansar Ali Business Person of the Year holding up his award
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Left to right
Jake Carney, Karim Ahmed, Shakil, Ansar Ali, Matthew Cotman-Tarkenter, Kabir Ahmed. (All members of team dsgnuk)
'dsgnuk' is short for 'design' and is a design and marketing agency on Featherstall Road in Oldham. In the heart of the Asian community and has been in business since 2008. Prior to 2008 Ansar ran his own design and print business called Concept Design and later in 2008 merged with Kabir Ahmed to create 'dsgnuk'
More info
www.dsgnuk.com
www.facebook.com/dsgnuk
www.ansarali.co.uk
More info on Oldham Business Awards
http://www.oldhambusinessawards.co.uk/
Rory Bremner pictures can be found at
http://www.oldhambusinessawards.co.uk/
Whatsapp launch Business app
After years of waiting and limited trials, businesses finally have their own WhatsApp solution. The company today launched the simply-named WhatsApp Business, available on Android devices as a free download.
For more information visit: https://blog.whatsapp.com/10000633/Building-for-People-and-Now-Businesses