Web Design by Committee – Black or White?

Whichever way you look at it, design by committee is a potential risk and hazard to good web design. Many areas of design are subjective in the same way as a colour choice or a house interior is. Everyone has his or her own preference and to compromise for all would produce a mess of […]

Good Home Page Design Principles

The home page design is the common entry point to your website. It should serve as a compelling window to your internal web content. We explore how to shape it for success. At Receptive Media, we like to draw inspiration from shopfront displays and emulate this in our home page design. A shopfront window is […]

A guide for eCommerce store images

Preparing product images for an eCommerce store is important business. It can help make or break a web design. Do it well with these helpful tips. Note: we would strongly recommend you hire a good professional photographer for product images but if you can’t here’s some helpful tips. Include all of the product edges All […]

Marketing tips for your website

You’ve launched your web design – what next? The final web design has been signed off, the launch button pressed and your website is now live but now what? Time to get marketing like a pro. Web Design Marketing You need to start driving user traffic to your website and drawing attention to it. There’s […]

Preparing for an eCommerce Website

You’ve decided to move ahead with an eCommerce website so you need to start preparing the content. Nobody knows your products better than you so with a little bit of help you should have no problems. Overall Site Structure The first thing to start thinking about is the overall site structure. An eCommerce website is […]

Our New Cardiff Office

We’re happy to announce that we’ve moved into our new business premises at Castle Court, Cathedral Road. A stone throw away from Cardiff Castle, we’ll be opening our doors and designing our websites in central Cardiff from now on. Prospective and old clients and are more than welcome to come and join us for a […]

Creating a Web Design Brief

You’ve determined that you need a new website design, or to develop your current site, but you don’t know where to start? We’ve put together a helpful brief and specification guide to assist you for success. This will help you communicate your objectives to the web design company you’re working with and ease the full […]