One of the great things about the website design and development work we do is that we get to work with a range of designers. Sometimes this means collaborating with…
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It’s always been the case that a fast loading homepage is important – nobody likes to wait an age for content to load. First impressions count too. If you’re waiting…
Here at Maroon Balloon we naturally keep a close eye on web technology developments so that we can continue to provide a high quality and future-proofed website design service. At…
BERT is Google’s acronym for its new natural processing language (NLP) model. It stands for Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers and in short this is what helps Google improve its…
Today we received our first notification messages from Google that websites are now enabled for mobile-first indexing. We predicted this last year and it basically means that Google will base…
One of the challenges for small businesses, especially in the digital industry, is keeping up to date with trends and news in the fast paced world of technology. So, how…
As 2017 draws to a close we reflect on what’s been another fun and productive year here at Maroon Balloon and look towards 2018 and what that might bring. Before…
We always recommend adding a blog to your website as it’s so good for customer engagement and SEO. It’s regular, rich content for search engines (which Google loves) and when…
In the world of website design and development, when Google plays a tune you generally dance. That’s if you want good search engine rankings, which we all do. For some time…
In a word, yes! Website speed is very important. Let’s break this down into reasons why a slow website is bad news for you and your readers: People are impatient…
We’ve all come across the dreaded “404 Error – Page Not Found” message on a web page. You're happily surfing away, then suddenly you get this. Pretty uninspiring and not particularly...
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