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This month Blot Design caught up with Angus MacLeod, from solicitors Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie LLP to discuss some of the legal aspects of operating a website.

WJM are a full service law firm with offices in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Angus MacLeod specialises in the Technology, Media and Intellectual Property areas and deals with web related legal issues on a daily basis.

BD: Angus, are people generally aware of their legal responsibilities when they launch a web site? (more…)

At the end of 2006 an amendment was passed into the UK Companies Act that makes it a requirement for companies to display regulatory information about their company on websites and email footers.
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Unfortunately, it’s a geek world. Our industry is full of people who love to tell you how complicated the Internet is.

The secret is that it really isn’t that complicated at all. And you can work that to your advantage.
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Web design companies get it all the time. They design and build a site for a client, launch it on the web. Everyone is happy until the client starts to notice that the avalanche of new business they expected is not happening. They do a few searches on Google and find their site is at position #497, or worse still, they can’t even find it.

They go straight to the phone and call up their web designer. “Why is my web site nowhere on Google?”, they ask. “What have you done wrong?”.
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Here’s one that only a web designer anorak could come up with.

If you’re interested in web design professionally, you’ll know that the different browsers operate slightly differently. It’s much better than it used to be, as the standards defined by organisations like WC3 have been largely adopted.
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