Pixelish

Pixelish We offer affordable website & graphic design. Clear pricing, excellent work, no nonsense.

Visitors decide whether to trust you in about seven seconds. Three things tip the scale.You don't get a second chance at...
06/06/2026

Visitors decide whether to trust you in about seven seconds. Three things tip the scale.

You don't get a second chance at that first impression, and most of it happens before anyone reads a single word about how good you are. People scan for proof, not promises. Here's what they're quietly looking for.

1. Real reviews, up where they can see them. Not buried on a "testimonials" page nobody clicks. Genuine words from genuine customers, near the top.

2. Real faces. The actual team, not stock photos of models in a meeting that never happened. People trust people they can picture.

3. A real address and a phone number that rings. A business that shows where it is and how to reach it feels like a business that'll still be there next year.

Notice the theme: show, don't tell. "20 years of experience" in a big hero banner does less than one honest review and a photo of the person who'll actually turn up.

How many of the three does your site have above the fold? ๐Ÿ‘€

Mobile isn't a version of your site. It's the site.Here's the thing most small business owners get told backwards. They'...
05/06/2026

Mobile isn't a version of your site. It's the site.

Here's the thing most small business owners get told backwards. They're shown the website on a big designer's monitor, it looks great, everyone nods, and the mobile version gets a quick once-over at the end.

But around 70% of the people who land on your site are holding a phone. So the version you barely checked is the version almost everyone actually sees.

Three signs your site was built desktop-first and squashed down after:

1. Hero text so big it takes up the whole screen before anything useful appears
2. The main "call us" or "book now" button buried below three scrolls of content
3. Tables or pricing grids that run off the edge and make people pinch and zoom

The fix isn't a mobile site. It's designing for the phone first, then letting it grow into the desktop layout. Same content, opposite starting point.

Pull your own site up on your phone right now. Would you trust it? ๐Ÿ“ฑ

Half of ACR's admin, gone. And a website she never has to log into.ACR Estate Agents had the same quiet problem a lot of...
02/06/2026

Half of ACR's admin, gone. And a website she never has to log into.

ACR Estate Agents had the same quiet problem a lot of busy agents have: the website and the CRM lived in two different worlds, so every new listing meant entering the same property twice. Once in Street, once on the site. Double the typing, double the chances of something going stale.

So we built the bridge. A custom Street integration that pulls each property straight onto the website the moment it goes live in the CRM. New instruction, photos, price changes, sold boards, all of it flows across on its own.

The result for Abi: roughly half her admin disappeared, and she never has to log into the website to keep it current. She runs her listings the way she always has, in Street, and the site keeps itself up to date.

Built it. Still running it. Still a client. Same as everyone in our portfolio.

Full project in the comments. โ†“

01/06/2026

If you haven't already entered - give it a go. Free to play predictions for this summer's football tournament and a top prize of ยฃ1500 cash!

Most businesses don't need a web designer. They need a web team.We've seen what happens to a business that hires a one-o...
30/05/2026

Most businesses don't need a web designer. They need a web team.

We've seen what happens to a business that hires a one-off designer, gets a beautiful site, then has to figure out the rest themselves. Plugins go out of date. Content goes stale. Security headers drift. Traffic dips. And they're left Googling "how to update WordPress safely" at 11pm. Or worse: paying a different developer to do what the original designer should have built in.

A web team is different. A web team knows your site because they built it, runs it because they wrote it, and is there when you ring because you're a client they want to keep.

Every business in our portfolio is still a client. That's the receipt.

This is what we do. Link in the comments.

Page speed beats prettiness. Every time.A three-second site beats a six-second one that looks twice as good. Always. Eve...
29/05/2026

Page speed beats prettiness. Every time.

A three-second site beats a six-second one that looks twice as good. Always. Even on a slow phone in a bad signal area, even at 11pm on a Sunday, even when the visitor was sceptical to begin with. Especially then.

Three things your page speed is doing for your business right now:

1. Telling Google whether to rank you above the next site down (yes, Core Web Vitals are still a ranking signal)
2. Telling visitors whether your business looks professional or neglected (53% of mobile visitors leave a page that takes over three seconds to load)
3. Telling your bounce rate which way to go

The fix usually isn't more design. It's less. Less plugins doing things you don't need. Less hero photos at original resolution. Less "we should probably add a slider."

Want to see how yours scores? Get in touch using the link in the comments

A new website, a new domain, and 200+ location pages built to dominate local search across Yorkshire.U&I Renewables came...
26/05/2026

A new website, a new domain, and 200+ location pages built to dominate local search across Yorkshire.

U&I Renewables came to us with twenty years of installation experience and an old domain that wasn't pulling its weight. The site had history. The history was hurting it.

So we started fresh. New domain. New build. Local SEO baked in from the structural level rather than bolted on after launch. We built more than 200 location pages, each tuned for the kind of "air source heat pump installer in Bessacarr" search where a homeowner is one Google query away from booking a survey. Six months later, traction is real and growing.

Built it. Still running it. Still a client. That's how every business on our portfolio looks at the moment.

Full project in the comments. โ†“

20/05/2026

A little something weโ€™ve been helping Marcrist develop. Free for anyone to play with a top prize of ยฃ1500. Get entering.

Want more work coming through the door? Have a look at who's already in our business referral group:๐Ÿ  Estate Agent - ACR...
14/05/2026

Want more work coming through the door? Have a look at who's already in our business referral group:

๐Ÿ  Estate Agent - ACR Estate Agents
๐Ÿš— Vehicle Service
โ„๏ธ Air Conditioning - Air Waze UK
๐Ÿก Mortgages
๐Ÿ’ผ Commercial Finance
๐Ÿ’ป Web Design
๐Ÿ“ฆ Fulfilment
๐Ÿ˜๏ธ Property Investment
๐Ÿ’ฐ Financial Advisor
๐Ÿ“ฑ Social Media - Organic Social Media
โœˆ๏ธ Travel Specialist - Destinations & Dreams
๐Ÿ’† Massage Therapy
๐Ÿ“„ Conveyancing
๐ŸŒฑ Renewables
โšก Commercial Utilities
๐Ÿ“Š Insolvency
โค๏ธ Charity
๐Ÿงพ Accountant - Greenline Accountants & Tax Advisors
๐Ÿ“œ Wills & Probate
๐Ÿšš Courier & Haulage

20 businesses, all sending each other proper paying work week in, week out.

Only one business per category, so nobody's fighting over the same job. Warm introductions from people who already trust you.

Every member opens up their own contacts to you.

A few seats are still open. If you're good at what you do and want more of the right work, come and sit in on a meeting.
DM me to book in.

Most small business owners think of their website as a project that ends.It doesn't.The day you stop touching it is the ...
08/05/2026

Most small business owners think of their website as a project that ends.

It doesn't.

The day you stop touching it is the day it starts working against you. Old prices. A team page with the wrong faces. Testimonials from 2023. Quietly, all of it tells visitors (and Google) that you've moved on.

Swipe through the post for the three pages that age fastest, the 55% stat that should make you nervous, and the simple monthly habit that keeps you ahead of every competitor still treating their site like a "done" job.

When did you last update yours?

If you're not sure, that's already the answer.

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