Just how important are WordPress updates?
1 September 2020
WordPress is a popular Content Management System (CMS) with a large portion of the web running on it (35% of all websites and 60% of the CMS market! and it’s still growing) this popularity is deserved with WordPress giving users incredible...
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Is your WordPress website being backed up correctly?
1 June 2020
In this day and age, everyone knows about the importance of regular backups of important data, normally learnt the hard way! Keeping your family photos, documents and media files safe is important to us personally, but it’s important not to ove...
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Why is website hosting so important?
6 November 2014
Hosting is an important part of running a website that many people overlook but it can have drastic effects on your websites performance if not taken into account! To start with let’s go over what hosting is so that we can understand why itR...
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Boost conversions with a landing page
10 June 2013
Landing pages are special pages on a website that have been created to promote a single marketing message, these landing pages let you focus your visitors attention on the message in the hopes of increasing conversions and make your website more effe...
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First impressions count – what does your website say about you?
2 May 2013
People make up their mind about you within minutes of meeting you, this judgement is based on all sorts of things from the type of cloths you have on to the sound of your voice. The same thing is true of a website, people will look at and evaluate th...
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Reduce the cost of a new website / redesign
31 January 2013
When it comes to looking at a new website or a redesign the biggest issue is the cost of the project, but there are several things you can do to help reduce this by making it easier for your web developer to get on with the ‘real’ work. T...
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Just how easy is it to update your own WordPress website?
23 January 2013
WordPress is an open source Content Management System (CMS) that enables people who do not know how to code websites to update their own website using a simple and easy to use ‘admin’ area. This system typically lets you update the copy o...
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The ongoing process of running a website
3 January 2013
A website project is a big undertaking no matter the size of your business it can involve allot of people both inside and outside of your business and needs to be carefully managed to ensure the website is as effective as possible. One of the facto...
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How to write good content
17 December 2012
Content is vital to the success of any website project no matter what topic the site is covering without good content the site will not be able to attract visitors and without visitors there is no point in having a website in the first place, the con...
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The importance of personal projects
13 December 2012
I consider myself lucky in that I do a job I love, programming and working with code is something I really enjoy doing and as a website developer I get paid to do it but unfortunately I do not get to pick and choose the projects I work on – thi...
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Why is content so important?
18 November 2012
There is an old saying when looking at a websites performance ‘content is king’ this has never been more true then in recent months with the latest series of updates of Googles search engine, Google is playing a never ending cat and mouse...
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What is a Content Management System?
30 October 2012
When building a website there are several methods we take – being a web developer part of my job is to look at the project and the client to decide which is the best way to build the website. Normally it boils down to two main options a static ...
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Keyword research
22 October 2012
Keywords are very important to how successful your website is in the search rankings, this is because search engines such as Google will look at your websites content and use it to rank your website in their search results. With Google being the numb...
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What is Content Strategy? and why should I care?
19 October 2012
Being a website developer I know that content is important for many different reasons, from my point of view content is important because it is fundamental to a websites success as it directly affects the SEO performance of the website. To others con...
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Adding a signature to your posts with WordPress Short Codes
1 October 2012
My latest tweak to this website is the addition of a signature at the end of each blog post, this change lets me add a brief profile of myself to the end of the site along with a few links to social media profiles such as Twitter and LinkedIn. This...
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How QR codes work
10 September 2012
QR codes have taken the world by storm in the past few years, it all started with a few popping up on high tech items like phone instructions and IT product packaging but these days they are everywhere from bus stops to the fruit and veg section at y...
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What is web hosting? and how to choose the right type
4 September 2012
Every website you visit while browsing the web is hosted on some form on web hosting, web servers are specialised computer systems that leverage cloud computing and are set up with one purpose in mind – to host websites. This means that all asp...
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Optimizing images on your website for SEO
1 August 2012
Search engine optimization is an ongoing job, there is always more you can do to improve the ranking of your website in the search results. Once you have covered the basics of page title and descriptions as well as sorting out the content structure t...
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What is Google Analytics and how do I install it?
23 July 2012
Google Analytics is a website tracking service that you can install for free on your website, this service when installed will monitor your visitors providing you with vital information on how many visitors your website is getting. The information co...
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So what these SEO keywords my website developer keeps asking me for?
18 July 2012
If you have a website or are in the process of starting a website development project you will probably of read or heard about keywords, especially when it comes to the websites SEO strategy but what are they and why are they important? Put simply ke...
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Using WordPress as a website CMS
17 July 2012
WordPress is a well known and popular CMS (content management system) for running blogs however it is also a solid CMS for running a website (even more so if it has a blog). While its true WordPress is targeted towards running a blog its more then ca...
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