Guides

5th March 2018

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

31st January 2018

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!

7th September 2017

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

26th February 2017

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!

29th June 2016

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.

24th May 2016

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.

12th May 2016

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.

19th April 2016

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.

7th March 2016

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

28th November 2015

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

17th November 2015

SEO 101 of onsite optimisation is the written word: your quality of writing, what topics you choose, your headings and meta tags. Here’s an overview of how to optimise your website on a page-by-page basis.

27th October 2015

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.