Guides

The SOS guide for businesses that need to adapt fast to COVID-19, self-isolation and a customer base that work from home. This includes setting up an online store (with no coding knowledge) and some creative ideas for virtual services.

There’s a lot to digest when you begin a web design project. Here’s what you should prepare so your designer can build the best website possible.

This beginner’s tutorial covers the basic options that let you edit pages, publish posts and manage images in your Wordpress website.

A guide to installing the free “Let’s Encrypt” SSL certificate on your website. This ensures your website transfers information safely and complies with modern expectations. It also curries favour with Google and your customers!

A guide to receiving payments through your website without the full-blown shopping cart options that you see on bigger retailers.

This guide explains the potential of a blog or ‘news’ page on your business’s website. It suggests inspiration for your articles and advises on how to prime them for your readers and search engines. Enjoy!

Behold, a guide for creating a personalised computer font based on your handwriting. Good news if you’re a calligrapher, not so for those with a thin, spidery scrawl.

An overview of File Transfer Protocol software, also known as FTP. It can be used to add and remove files, edit your website content and make changes to important settings in your server.

Ready to launch your website? In the name of thoroughness, here is a list of things to check before sharing it with the public – from Google Analytics to site backups, meta tags and contact forms.

Every nugget of time counts – speed up your website with these page speed tips. We’ll look at optimising your images, website caching, hosting options and setting up a CDN.

Getting started with the Wordpress post editor, including the featured image, tags, categories and excerpts. All this including the so-called Kitchen Sink!

Let’s examine what sort of images or stock photos you should use when building your website – from passport profile pictures to abstract photography.