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News, views, and articles from a freelance web designer in Horsham, West Sussex. I publish regular articles; there is an RSS feed if you want to subscribe with, for example, an RSS reader like Feedly.

  • Make sure that your website software is up to date

    We've come across a few sites recently where the website content management system hadn't been updated for months. Here's why it is important to ensure that your website's software is updated regularly.

  • Working at a Horsham Coworking day

    Thinking about a coworking space in Horsham

    I've been organising coworking days in Horsham for the last 18 months and I'm now getting to the stage where I'm actively thinking about the next step - or whether there needs to be a next step at all!

  • Working with WordPress

    CVW Web Design has been doing more work with WordPress recently. Here is some advice about choosing WordPress and working with it on your website.

  • A new logo for CVW Web Design

    We've just redesigned the logo for CVW Web Design and you can see the new version on the site now. It was designed to enhance the current site (rather than start a redesign).

  • Introduction to Horsham Coworking Audioboo

    I've created a short audioclip with Audioboo that introduces coworking and, in particular, Horsham Coworking. Interested in coworking? Give it a listen!

  • Make a sitemap file for your website

    A sitemap will tell Google and other search engines about your website pages. It's a list of all the pages in the site and it can be helpful for prompting Google about new pages - and for getting feedback from Google.

  • Small company or freelancer?

    It's no secret that CVW Web Design is a vehicle for me, Clive Walker, to sell my freelance web design and development services. Yet, this website is designed/branded as a small company.

  • Speedometer dial

    Why Website Speed Matters

    We've been optimising this website recently and making it as fast as we can. Without going into the technical aspects of how we do this, let's ask the question. Why does website speed matter?

  • Working with Perch

    I've joined the Perch Registered Developers Programme because I love working with Perch. It's a great website content management system (CMS) that makes it easy to update your website

  • Working with a laptop

    Ideas for updating your website

    In the last post, we described Four Reasons Why You Must Update Your Website. Following on from that, here are some ideas about how you can make regular updates to your site.

  • Four reasons why you must update your website

    We see plenty of websites that are not updated very often and it's incredibly easy to fall into this situation. However, it's very important that you regularly update your website for several reasons.

  • A quick tip to improve your search engine rankings

    We get asked a lot about search engine positions and how to improve them but there's one quick tip that we always give. Read on to find out out more!

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