As the world wide recession bites, more busineses are tempted to forego the option of a tailor made web site from a professional web designer and consider the cheaper, "build your own site" template based options available on-line.
Promotional sites that promise high quality, fully functioning websites up and running in minutes at a very low cost are certainly going to catch the eye of any business looking to cut costs during the so called "credit crunch", but could it be a false economy?

A question often asked by small to medium businesses thinking of expanding on to the web for the first time, and increasingly pondered in the light of cost cutting necessities due the credit crunch.

Do small to medium businesses really need a website? Is a website a luxury that can be done without when cash flow is tight, or is it really an essential element in creating new trade and bringing in fresh custom?

Anyone else experienced this problem?
For no apparent reason I recently found that I was suddenly unable to log in to several of my regular website accounts.
Typing in the correct username and pssword simply resulted in the log in page refreshing, with the entered details missing - but no log in.

For anyone starting out in the world of Web Design, self appointed web guru Jakob Neilsen is often quoted as the defining authority on web site standards.

Mr Neilsen has defined many "rules" of web design intended to improve the user experience and make accessing information, (which is essentially what all sites are about), as easy and obvious as possible.

Welocme to the WebShopShack, a place to discuss the ins and outs of e-commerce design, share ideas and seek solutions to niggling design problems.