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After another exciting year of business we're celebrating by giving one lucky soul the chance to win a complete custom website from Design Fusions. The winning entry will have the opportunity to submit a project that will be fully designed and developed up to the value of £1,000. So if you've ever had ambitions of owning you own online store,  your own personalised homepage or even a more respectable website for your current business. Whatever you fancy, here is your chance to have it professionally designed and developed by the Design Fusions team. Here at Design Fusions we're a forward thinking bunch with our fingers firmly on the pulse of the hottest web trends and technologies. As a result we've been keen for some time to showcase how social media has been making…

Every website out there today has a conversion goal, yours may be trying to encourage your users to sign up to your newsletter or buy your product or even just read your blog posts. As you can imagine, many companies spend a vast amount of time coming up with ways to improve their conversions through tweaking their website. In the industry this is termed Conversion Rate Optimazation (CRO). Using split testing on your website as a tool for CRO can help you to easily work out what helps to increase your conversions. The great thing about this is that, unlike many online marketing techniques you don't need to spend loads of money, it simply requires that you be creative and put yourself in your target audiences shoes. There is no golden rule which will lead to instant traffic however…

Ok, not strictly web design. But its a title that has got you a little intrigued hasn't it? And rightly so – its an interesting tale non the less! Let me begin somewhere in the deepest darkest recesses of a Welsh shipping town in the latter half of the 19th century. My great, great grandfather Leonard Hook began the family studio – Hook Signwriting. Specialising in hand painted signage and advertising for local business & the community. Fast forward 120 years and HookSigns are still trading and remains family run. Whilst still retaining the same traditional hand painted techniques that his forefathers have used for generations... But what has this got to do with today's dynamic technology driven creative industry? Surprisingly more than I thought... As a child I…

As regular clients of Design Fusions can probably tell, we have had something of a facelift recently. So let me be the first to welcome you to the all new and improved Design Fusions website. So why did we choose to redesign? And specifically this design? Well, let me begin with a short history lesson... Design Fusions began life as a bold creative initiative sprung from the minds of the design team for a burgeoning web 2.0 start up. And since we conceived Design Fusions its been something of a roller coaster, with us growing rapidly to keep pace with interest & demand. And as our portfolio has grown so have we - not only in confidence, capability and credibility but also ambition. In the last 6 months we have had the privilege to work with some inspiring and high profile…

One of the mosts challenging things when you first start a new company is coming up with an appropriate name. Having a great name can make a huge difference to your company and can add value. Hundred of new companies startup everyday and therefore it has become even more important to make your company stand out from the crowd and your name is a big factor in this. In this article I am going to try and talk you through what I see as the best process for coming up with a great, memorable name. 1. Determine your criteria It is a good idea to set out some clear criteria which your chosen name should adhere to. It is not always possible to achieve all of these but the more the better. You will notice that many big companies do not actually fulfill these criteria, however, I would…