Before choosing a web designer in Nottingham I would strongly recommend you see examples of their work before you instruct them to make a start. That seems obvious I know but here is where lots of people make a mistake – make sure that the sites you see are representative of the site that will be built for you. Some web designers in Nottingham have a variety of packages for different budgets.

Make sure the web designers speak to you in some detail about what you want for your site before you hand over any money. You may be happy enough for them to do their own thing if you are in experienced with websites, but it will save a lot of time and disappointment on both sides if objectives are clearly laid out at the beginning of the project. Remember, it is as much up to you to state what you want as it is up to them to ask – they are unlikely to be mind readers as well as web designers!

A good web design company should be able to offer more than just web design. Services such as printing, branding, SEO (search engine optimisation) etc will often be cheaper as package rather than having to outsource from different companies. You see there are various on page elements that need to be correct, and these should match up with any promotional efforts. It is therefore easier if one company works on both.

Make sure there are no hidden charges. A website needs a domain name, which is the http://www.yoursitesnamehere.com address you give potential visitors to your site. The website also has to be hosted. Both are costs that may be extra.

Make sure you own the content. It is likely that the Nottingham based web design company will buy the domain for you and host the site. Make sure you own it and can change it as you wish. Agree the charges for changes with the web design company. You don’t want to pay for a complete rebuild every time you want to change a word or 2.

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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

Finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction: “Nicholas Carr has written a Silent Spring for the literary mind.”—Michael Agger, Slate

“Is Google making us stupid?” When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the Net’s bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply?

Now, Carr expands his argument into the most compelling exploration of the Internet’s intellectual and cultural consequences yet published. As he describes how human thought has been shaped through the centuries by “tools of the mind”—from the alphabet to maps, to the printing press, the clock, and the computer—Carr interweaves a fascinating account of recent discoveries in neuroscience by such pioneers as Michael Merzenich and Eric Kandel. Our brains, the historical and scientific evidence reveals, change in response to our experiences. The technologies we use to find, store, and share information can literally reroute our neural pathways.

Building on the insights of thinkers from Plato to McLuhan, Carr makes a convincing case that every information technology carries an intellectual ethic—a set of assumptions about the nature of knowledge and intelligence. He explains how the printed book served to focus our attention, promoting deep and creative thought. In stark contrast, the Internet encourages the rapid, distracted sampling of small bits of information from many sources. Its ethic is that of the industrialist, an ethic of speed and efficiency, of optimized production and consumption—and now the Net is remaking us in its own image. We are becoming ever more adept at scanning and skimming, but what we are losing is our capacity for concentration, contemplation, and reflection.

Part intellectual history, part popular science, and part cultural criticism, The Shallows sparkles with memorable vignettes—Friedrich Nietzsche wrestling with a typewriter, Sigmund Freud dissecting the brains of sea creatures, Nathaniel Hawthorne contemplating the thunderous approach of a steam locomotive—even as it plumbs profound questions about the state of our modern psyche. This is a book that will forever alter the way we think about media and our minds.

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