GDPR PRIVACY POLICY REQUIREMENTS Privacy Policies are part of the General Data Protection Regulation and your website must include these in order for your dental practice to comply. Privacy Policies are different from your standard Policies and Procedures where you may inform patients about complaints, violent behaviour or missed appointments. These could be displayed in various places around your website but it would be wise to include a dedicated section to highlight three key requirements which I have listed below.   WHAT SHOULD PRIVACY POLICIES INCLUDE? General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR as it is more commonly know as, requires you to make sure you have the right privacy policies in place in order to […]

  IS YOUR DENTAL WEBSITE NON-SECURE? Would you enter a website which highlights in-secure notices? You would probably be alarmed and click away very quickly just in case it harmed your PC or generated a virus. With secure website hosting this would not happen and not only would you be protecting your website, but your patients too. So why is it important to be aware of this and how will it affect your website and your patients? Read on…   INTERNET BROWSERS ARE CHANGING With GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) affecting all businesses in the UK as well as multi-national organisations across the globe, websites and companies which provide online […]

  HAS YOUR WEBSITE EVER FALTERED? Has your website ever experienced a glitch? For instance, you may have clicked through a link and seen a ‘404 Page Not Found’, or a photo not displaying on a web page, or worse still… your dental website has suddenly disappeared! So what can you do to prevent downtime and optimise performance? The answer is to ensure you are maintaining your dental website with the right support plan in place. Although this will add extra costs to your expenses each month, it will provide you with peace of mind and prevent a whole list of potential problems which can occur at any time. But wait I hear you asking, what […]

  DOES YOUR COOKIE LAW PROTECT YOU? There are many online cookie facilities and tracking solutions available on the internet but it is important to ensure they comply with GDPR. Information about data that is recorded and the purpose of cookies need to be clearly specified on your website. All consents must be recorded as evidence that consent has been given and for those users who ignore the cookie law you want to make sure you are still protected.   THE PREMIUM COOKIE PLAN The new Premium Cookie law plan design4dentists are offering dental practice websites include solutions that conform with General Data Protection Regulations. Using a cloud based system, […]

  IS YOUR WEBSITE GDC COMPLIANT? This short video introduces the dental website GDC regulations which dental practices must include. I have also written below information for quick reference purposes. However, you can find more precise information on the design4dentists website compliance page which contains a guide to the GDC’s Principles of Ethical Advertising. If you would like to read more about the advertising rules set by the General Dental Council, please click the link at the bottom of this page. For more tips about general dental website compliance click here >   DENTAL PROFESSIONALS Website GDC regulations require dental professionals who provide dentistry to display the following information on your website: • their professional qualification […]

  DOMAINS, HOSTING & EMAILS There is more to dental website hosting than you may think. It’s not just a matter of uploading your website on a server, there are lots of other aspects to consider which are linked to your general online presence. In this short article, I have written a few tips for consideration if you intend to purchase your own domain, dental website hosting and email accounts. All of which are important to get right. You do not want to end up with a domain which you do not own the rights to, a hosting platform that is unreliable and an email address that advertises another brand […]

  Why use positive dental testimonials on your website? Well did you know over 90% of consumers read online reviews and testimonials before deciding on a purchase. And over 70% say positive testimonials make them trust a business more. So now the challenge is to encourage your patients to leave you with a small review or better still, write a glowing dental testimonial. You can also ask them if they would allow you to create a great case study to help patients understand more about the treatment process and how it can benefit their lifestyle as well as their looks. I’m sure many happy patients would oblige.https://www.design4dentists.com/latest-news/wp-admin/edit.php Below are four different ways […]

  WHY USE PHOTOS? Have you ever commissioned dental photography to help market your practice? And does your website or social media pages display that personal touch? It’s been said that website articles with images get 94% more total views and people nowadays expect to have a greater user experience when browsing online.   DENTAL PHOTOGRAPHY ON YOUR WEBSITE Ask yourself another question, how does your dental practice website communicate your brand to all those potential patients out there? They say a great picture is worth a thousand words and can tell a story as well as or even better than a page full of words. Professional dental photography producing […]

  GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION Are you prepared? On 25th May 2018 GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) will come into force. It will affect all businesses in UK and not just dental practices. Sole practitioners and company directors will need to find out what is involved and how they need to adapt to ensure their businesses comply with GDPR. Failure to make sure the necessary procedures and practices are in place may result in a hefty fine which could be around 4% of your annual turnover.   GDPR FOR YOUR DENTAL WEBSITE At design4dentists we host and create all kinds of dental websites and all of these will be affected by the new […]

  IS WORDPRESS RIGHT FOR YOU? Before making a decision on whether you think WordPress is the ideal website platform to present your dental practice, make sure you have understood the difference between a conventional HTML website verses a WordPress website. To help you make the right choice, I have written below the pro’s and con’s for each platform. At design4dentists we build all kinds of dental websites using various coded languages and having experienced all aspects of functionality, reliability, speed and efficiencies, we think it is important to share our knowledge with you. Find out about our dental website design packages >   1. TEMPLATE OR CUSTOMISATION? WordPress is now a very […]