Emma Grant

Emma Grant is a professional freelance content writer from Ireland. Over the past three years she has travelled the world while running her business from her laptop. You find her at www.florencewritinggale.com

14 simple tools for picking the perfect domain

It’s beyond question that coming up with a good domain name is very hard work these days. There are just so many…

9 reasons hand-coding always beats site builders

If you use any kind of social media like Facebook or Twitter, you won’t have been able to avoid the merciless onslaught…

Online brand-building 101

Building a brand online is a different task to traditional brand building. Of course it won’t hurt to combine the…

Matching site design to your target demographic

When creating a website project, it's always important to think about the end users of the site. Frequently it's the…

Applying application design to websites

Generally speaking, application design and web design are very different things. The key difference is that typically…

Indispensable tools for low-budget startups

Starting a web design studio can be an expensive undertaking, but it doesn’t have to be impossible! In this article, I…

Proactive UX design

When it comes to designing UX, it's a good idea to take a proactive stance. This means anticipating everything a user…

How Google’s changes will affect your designs

A large number of new websites — perhaps even the overwhelming majority of them — have started to take on a really…

Building effective web design teams

When you are just starting out in a web development business, it can be really tempting to try to handle most (if not…

9 reasons you should never use a CMS

I’d like to find that guy who was the first to promote to customers the idea that they could manage their own website…

3 key lessons for websites that work

Almost every web design story has three main actors. Each of them occupies a particular place in the story, and each…

8 reasons to embrace website accessibility

In the past, fantastic web design was a simple business. All you had to do was ensure that the design looked good in…

3 responsive design disasters — and how to avoid them

Responsive design methods are very helpful to developers because they allow us to serve content to the widest range of…

10 days to a better bounce rate

This time of year people begin to think about bettering themselves by making positive changes in their lives or…