Category: Web design
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Careful with adding TripAdvisor widgets on your accommodation website
TripAdvisor is one of the most popular and influential travel websites. Many accommodation managers have embraced the TripAdvisor concept, and actively monitor reviews that guests post. This allows them to view feedback and provide a “management response” to any reviews that deserve another point of view, so that prospective guests can make an informed decision.…
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Tips on dealing with freelance web designers or developers
When you’re in the travel business, having a good website is very important as most people use the internet to research and arrange their holidays. Therefore travel businesses find they will require the services of a web designer or developer to create their website initially, then in the future to extend, enhance or completely redevelop…
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Are you wrongly assuming all your website visitors use Internet Explorer?
You’ve got a great website – either created by yourself or by someone else – but can everyone actually see it as they should and use it properly? Some PC or Windows users may be forgiven for thinking that the only way to visit websites is using Internet Explorer. However, there are in fact more…
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Do you really own your website and its contents?
A few years ago, we had a rather eye-opening experience with some holiday property owners in a popular Victorian coastal town who were advertising their accommodation with us. They originally requested that we use text and photos from their own dedicated websites to create their advertisement. They were photos the property owners had taken themselves…
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Design your website for people, not computers
We get the opportunity to view many websites for accommodation properties due to their details being listed on the Travel Victoria website. There’s all different types we see – some spectacular ones, some fairly run of the mill, and the occasional one which is just plain odd. One website we came across recently was for…