ExpressionRise blog https://www.expressionrise.com/blog/ Practical advice on websites, local SEO and AI for small businesses. en-gb Five colour palettes taken from paintings, and how visitors switch them https://www.expressionrise.com/blog/colour-palettes-from-paintings/ https://www.expressionrise.com/blog/colour-palettes-from-paintings/ How we built a live palette, dark mode and corner switcher into our website, with colours taken from Klaudia Polakowska's paintings and checked for contrast. Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT Should your business website have a game? Six we built to show you https://www.expressionrise.com/blog/games-on-a-business-website/ https://www.expressionrise.com/blog/games-on-a-business-website/ We added six classic browser games to our website, written without a single library. Here is why a small game can keep visitors for longer, and the tools we use. Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT Watercolour meets code: hand-painted art on a fast website https://www.expressionrise.com/blog/watercolour-meets-code/ https://www.expressionrise.com/blog/watercolour-meets-code/ How we cut Klaudia Polakowska's watercolours into layers, set them moving with light and parallax, and still kept every page fast. Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT Our website playground: a live demo of what Astro can do https://www.expressionrise.com/blog/website-playground-astro-demo/ https://www.expressionrise.com/blog/website-playground-astro-demo/ A tour of our new playground page, with a full control panel, twelve button styles, twelve animations and the interactive pieces clients ask for most. All built in Astro. Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT Website sounds without a single audio file https://www.expressionrise.com/blog/website-sounds-without-audio-files/ https://www.expressionrise.com/blog/website-sounds-without-audio-files/ Our website now clicks and chimes as you use it. Every sound is made in the browser, so it adds about 1 KB and no downloads. How it works, and why it starts muted. Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT A Google Business Profile checklist for Torbay businesses https://www.expressionrise.com/blog/google-business-profile-checklist-torbay/ https://www.expressionrise.com/blog/google-business-profile-checklist-torbay/ A practical, step-by-step checklist to get a Torquay, Paignton or Brixham business into the Google Maps local pack, from categories to reviews. Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT What a 100/100 PageSpeed score actually means https://www.expressionrise.com/blog/what-100-pagespeed-means/ https://www.expressionrise.com/blog/what-100-pagespeed-means/ What Lighthouse and PageSpeed Insights measure, why the score moves between runs, and the changes that took this website to 100 on mobile. Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT