A little bit of knowledge.

Select one of the articles below to read more about what we can do and how we go about doing it.

  • A Better Experience A Better Experience
    To put user experience at the heart of your website, you often have to step away. Observing what users acutally do, not just what they say they do, will help you to build a site that keeps all of your users happy all of the time.
  • Accessibility Accessibility
    It's the Marmite of web development. It's often abused as both an inhibitor of new ideas ("You can't do that, it's not accessible!") and as a sales tool ("It's illegal to be inaccessible!").
  • Charities making the most of social networking Charities making the most of social networking
    Originally published in The Drum, here's our article about how charities can make best use of social networking tools to build relationships with supporters
  • eCommerce sites - things you might want to think about
    If you’re thinking about developing an eCommerce site, one of the first questions you’ll probably want to ask us is “how much will it cost?”. We find it difficult to answer that question until we know how much functionality you want your eCommerce site to
  • eNewsletters: good practice eNewsletters: good practice
    Everyone likes to get unexpected mail from someone they like. That’s why eNewletters are a brilliant way to keep in contact with regular users of your website: customers, potential customers, and people who just want to keep in touch.
  • Glossary Glossary
    Ever wondered what everyone's talking about? Confused by all these new-fangled phrases like "we'll have the wireframes available shortly for heuristic testing"? Hopefully the list below will shed some light on a couple of the more commonly used phrases!
  • How payments work on an eCommerce website
    If you want the ability to take payments online - whether that’s as a donation to your charity, or as payment for a product/service you’re providing, you’ll need an eCommerce site.
  • How to test your site How to test your site
    There will come a stage in the web build process where we’ll have created your brand spanking new website and have put it online at a secure location for you to test before it's launched ‘live’ to the world.
  • Make me a website!
    What we like clients to think about when they tell us they need a website.
  • My website just went live. How will people find it? My website just went live. How will people find it?
    How do you make sure that relevant traffic gets to your site. An overview of digital marketing.
  • The advantages and disadvantages of Content Management Systems
    When tictoc build websites, we build them based on a Content Management System (CMS). But what is this?
  • Things your web agency can't do for you Things your web agency can't do for you
    OK, now this sounds like a nasty article. We don’t want to be mean, it’s just that there are certain things that are out of our control.
  • tictoc and the Education sector tictoc and the Education sector
    Our experience in the Education sector has led us to work with a host of schools, colleges and education bodies throughout the UK, building a vast resource of knowledge and information on how the sector operates and what the target market demands.
  • tictoc and the Voluntary sector
    As with our experience in the Education sector, we have extensive working knowledge of the Voluntary sector having worked with charities and the third sector throughout the UK since our inception over 9 years ago.
  • What to do when there's a problem on your site
    When you’ve got a problem with your site, the first thing you want to do is pick up the phone and tell us about it.
  • What you need to know when a site goes live What you need to know when a site goes live
    OK, you’ve got to the end of the process, and you’re ready to launch the new site. You've tested it thoroughly on the test site, we’ve sorted any bugs and you’re ready to unleash the site on the world.