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It's hard to imagine, but it wasn't so long ago that mobile devices didn't exist!  In the early days of web design, designers and developers only had to focus on one or two screen resolutions.  Therefore, creating a website for fixed resolutions was easy.

Web designers create websites. Web developers create websites. So they are both the same right? Wrong...

You may not think your site has anything worth being hacked for, but websites are compromised all the time.  The majority of website security breaches are not to steal your data or deface your website, but intead attempts to use the server as an email relay for spam, or to setup a temporary web server - usually to serve files of an illegal nature.

Online website builders may seem appealing.  They are cheap, are advertised as being easy to use, tell you that you can build a website yoursef in minutes, and require no web knowledge.

However, most businesses looking for a website need a few important things.  You want your website to look good, be found by users and provide the information that they need.  So, you need your website to bring in new business, or entrice existing customers to provide repeat business.

The Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) was introduced in 1995.  Since then, it has become the duty of anyone providing a public service to ensure that the do not '......discriminate against a disabled person by refusing to provide any service which it provides to members of the public'.

You don't have to pay for expensive search engine optimisation companies!

You can do the work yourself. By following the tips here, you will perform better with search engines. Even following one of the tips will make a difference.

You might have the best designed website, developed using the highest quality code, but this is rarely the first introduction your potential visitors will have to your website.

Many marketers and web masters seem to be of the opinion that email marketing is dead.  However, marketers that have abandoned the 'batch and blast' approach have found that to be untrue.

For those of you that use public transport, take a look around your train or bus and see how many people are browsing the internet on their phones.  Technology in this area has improved far quicker than most other technologies over the past decade as providers strive to increase speed and bandwidth, and the hardware giants fight to sell you new devices with vaslty improved browsing experiences.

You should try to create a unique title tag for every page that appears on your website.  This helps users and search engines to know they are on the right page.  In your search results, the title tag appears as the first line (usually displayed as larger text).  Any words that the users has searched for will appear in bold - this helps users to decided whether the page is relevant to their search.