How to Edit a WordPress Post or Page - 03/11/2009

How to Use Wordpress - Step 1 At Scamper we're huge fans of Wordpress and use it for a lot of the websites that we design, both as a blog and as a content management system (CMS). One of the great things about Wordpress is that it is so simple to use, but if you've never used it before, you might find yourself a little confused by the many options inside the control panel. Therefore we've [...]

Business Marketing – Fundamental Principles - 20/10/2009

We are often asked the questions;  “What is marketing?” and “how does it work?”.  This information be found to point people to focus is on specific marketing techniques specific types of businesses.  What we thought would be really useful, however to provide some information on the fundamental principles of Business Marketing.  After all, the basic principles behind most successful [...]

New Business Ideas – 5 Simple Tests - 19/10/2009

We work with a lot of start-up businesses and are also partners in a number of new business ventures.  Some of the ideas that fly across our desks are true genius, while some are clearly flawed.  Most ideas however are somewhere in between.  How can you tell if a new business idea is a good one?  How can you ensure that you only invest your time and money into ideas that have a fighting [...]

Why Should You Update Your Website? - 27/08/2009

Many businesses consider it essential that they have a website, but are far less enthusiastic about maintaining their website and keeping it up to date. Consequently, many corporate websites display out of date information about the business and look like they were designed before the Internet was even invented. But does it matter? Surely just having a website online will allow customers to [...]

Top 5 Business Website Design Tips - 14/08/2009

You might have noticed that we've recently given our own website design bit of a revamp. In this post, I thought we would share with you our top five tips from redesigning our website: 1. Get to the Point It might sound obvious, but visitors to your site are on a mission to find something. Help them along by making it immediately obvious what you have to offer. In our case, that’s [...]