Welcome to the guides page for clients, web masters and developers. These include tutorials, online tips and good practices for maintaining a healthy business website.
If I have a Eureka moment and find something that might help the designer community, I’ll post it here. I myself learnt with the help of online resources, so it’s only fair to return the good will.
One purpose of these articles is to guide clients through the more commonly asked questions – how to start a project, whether to use a CMS, explaining the terms etc. With that in mind, if there’s anything you’re unsure about that you’d like me to cover in depth, let me know.
2017-02-26 in Guides, SEO Tips
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!
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2016-06-29 in Discussion, Guides
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.
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2016-05-24 in Guides
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.
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2016-05-12 in Guides
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.
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2016-04-19 in Guides, SEO Tips
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.
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2016-03-07 in Guides, Wordpress
Getting started with the Wordpress post editor, including the featured image, tags, categories and excerpts. All this including the so-called Kitchen Sink!
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2015-11-28 in Guides
Let’s examine what sort of images or stock photos you should use when building your website – from passport profile pictures to abstract photography.
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2015-11-17 in Guides, SEO Tips
The basic level of page optimisation is the written word: your quality of writing, what topics you choose, headings and meta tags. Here’s an overview of how to optimise your website on a page-by-page basis.
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2015-10-27 in Guides, SEO Tips
A website isn’t simply unveiled. Launching your page with Google Search Console invites the search giant to crawl your pages quickly and thoroughly. Here’s how you get started.
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2015-10-21 in Guides
A tutorial to help clients install Gridhost email accounts on their preferred service – be that Apple Mail, Gmail, iPhone or Mozilla Thunderbird.
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2015-08-19 in Guides, Wordpress
Let’s explain the custom post type – a special type of page you can create through Wordpress or any other CMS system. Unlike generic blog posts, these are built around the niche content of your business, service area or industry.
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2015-08-07 in Guides, Wordpress
Distinguishing between the two Wordpresses – one for blogging, one for site-making. It’s a little confusing at first, but there you go. Let’s overcome it.
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