New home page design

You may have noticed we launched an updated home page design yesterday, so I thought I would take this opportunity to explain some of the reasons behind the changes. We, like many others, use google analytics to gather data about site usage and help profile our customer base. One of the many useful tools provided by google analytics is site overlay.…

Posted: November 17th, 2009 By: ndm Read More →

Boost the impact of your site or blog with stock photos.

As a designer I spend a lot of time browsing the web and checking out other peoples websites and blogs for inspiration and ideas. I find that the most effective, user friendly websites I come across are those that make good use of photography. Today, I'm going to share with you some simple tips for using photography on your website…

Posted: November 10th, 2009 By: mattb Read More →

What happens behind the scenes

Hi All, I am Andrew the Development Manager here at LCN. Currently we are working on some big changes to our hosting system. As well as improving reliability and performance we are overhauling the way hostings are set up and reported on. Whenever a customer purchases a hosting we automatically configure that hosting account as soon as possible. However quick we set…

Posted: October 20th, 2009 By: andrew Read More →

Usability Testing, The Main Techniques

A Brief Introduction

Hi all, I'm Matt T, a designer at LCN.com. I only joined the company in June so this is my first blog post. I have a keen interest in the Usability & User Experience aspect of web design so thought I'd write about that. I hope you find it useful and would love any comments you have. Anyway,…

Posted: October 13th, 2009 By: MattT Read More →

Testing Policy at LCN

Hello to all, the Development Team Leader here. No doubt if you've been reading some of Mark's recent blog posts you know that Auto-renew and express checkout has had a large delay in it's release. Now that it has been deployed, I thought I would run through the testing procedure that we go through before classifying code as "ready…

Posted: October 6th, 2009 By: dmajrekar Read More →