Reducing Server Resource Usage
What to do when you get a notification that you are approaching, or exceeding, your resource usage limits.
Reducing Image Size for your Website with Squoosh
A short tutorial on how to use the Squoosh web application to reduce image file sizes, improving your website's speed and efficiency.
Fonts, Colours and Images
A library of highly recommended links at your disposal for you to choose your website's fonts, colours and images with ease. We have gone through all these links ourselves so that we could be sure that they were of the highest quality for our clients.
Email Etiquette Basics to Look More Professional
As a job seeker or employee, email is used as a professional means of communication, but email etiquette isn’t exactly taught in school. It’s important…
An Awesome Start-Up Business!
Drop shipping is a low cost, hassle free, great start up business, especially for first timers wanting to jump into the big business world! With minimal start-up costs, time and energy literally anyone can do it. No skills are required. So what is this awesome idea and how do you do it?
Website Advantages for Your Law Firm
Law firms predominantly rely on word-of-mouth referrals but does that bring in enough work alone? With the majority of people these days being internet savvy, the best way to ramp up business is with the best online marketing tool there is…a website! AND law firms with websites have distinct benefits in generating more business.
Generating More Business with Widgets
Some people don’t realise that they interact with widgets every day. One of the most common places widgets appear is right on our smart phones and they are incredibly useful. So if they’re useful on a phone, could they be useful on a website for business?
Digital Goods and How to Make the Most of Them with Your Website!
Digital goods, also known as electronic goods, have hit the world by storm and that storm only looks to be increasing with time. Online is the new way so it’s not surprising that we now buy items that aren’t physical. So what are they and how can we make the most out of them?
Building Trust and Credibility with Testimonials
Why do you choose to buy products or services from certain businesses? It’s because you’ve built trust with them from different sources. We don’t just randomly pick a business by “Eenie Meenie Miney Mo” (OK maybe sometimes), but majority of the time we build a relationship with them through the information we receive from friends, family, social media, ads, or their website. Testimonials and other people’s experiences are the main force behind us trusting a business.
Website Advantages for Your Restaurant/Café
Do you own a restaurant or cafe and question how a website would benefit you? Restaurants and cafes aren’t online businesses; they’re based on location and predominantly word-of-mouth referrals, so I understand your hesitations. But every business benefits from a website and a restaurant or cafe with a website has bonus advantages to one that doesn’t.
How to Create an Eye Catching Gallery on Your Website
Have you ever looked at a gallery on a website and used that as your deciding factor on whether to purchase with that company? Galleries either give us a good or bad impression within the first few seconds of viewing. It’s important to make sure that your gallery is eye-catching and consistent with the rest of your website and your business.
Why is it Important to Regularly Update Your Website?
Have you spent a lot of time and effort creating a website and now you’re wondering why it’s important to spend more time and effort regularly updating it? Your website promotes you 24/7 in the online world. A website is like a living being, to keep it alive it needs regular updates to your content (words), design (look) and development (functionality).
How to Find Relevant Popular Topics for Your Blog
Have you recently started a blog and are struggling to think of topics for it? Have you had a blog for a while that was going well but now you’re stuck with writer’s block or run out of inspiration? I know how you feel; the same thing has happened to me. Which is why I have done the research and written a simple and easy guide on where you can find great topics for your blog.
Tips for Web Content Layout
Web design is the presentation of a company's content and marketing message in the best and most appropriate format. So, it is critical to give adequate time to designing the content layout of the website.
Four Must Have Elements of a Business Website
There are a few key elements that every business website should have. This ensures that user experience is pleasant while also creating a certain impact on their mind. Ideally you should include these elements into your business website at the very beginning. However, if your website is already up and some of these elements are missing, it is never too late.
Six Tools to Manage Your Social Media Content
Social media is an extremely useful platform for driving traffic to your business website and increasing the visibility of your brand amongst a your target market, but the exponential growth of this platform has made managing your activities on it quite complicated.
Three Quick Ways to Optimize Your Online Marketing Budget
As a small business owner, you are probably constantly keeping track of your expenses and costs, in search of the perfect way to market your business, services or products. Online marketing provides small business owners with fantastic opportunities to raise awareness about their products or services and develop client bases.
Harnessing the Power of Online Marketing
Online marketing has numerous branches, and is most effective when businesses utilize each of its distinctive spheres. Online marketing is the amalgamation of web design and development, copywriting, photography, search engine marketing, social media marketing and email marketing. Online marketing serves as an extremely efficient medium of low-cost advertising.
Don't Let Web Copywriting Stress You Out
You are a savvy business owner with no clue about writing copy. You cannot afford to hire a professional copywriter to sell your offerings through words. Don't worry, you don't need a Masters' Degree in English or be a skilled wordsmith to present your brand compellingly to visitors.
Why a Responsive Website is a Must
Over the past couple of years, the use of desktop PCs and even laptops has dropped drastically. More and more people now use tablets and smartphones. According to MagnaGlobal’s report “Unlocking the Power of Mobile”, 76 percent of Australians access the Internet on mobile devices – smartphones and tablets. In the same report, 57 percent of respondents stated that they expect websites to be tailor-made for mobile devices.
6 Tips For Writing A Traffic Generating Blog
Producing high quality, value rich Blogs on a regular basis will dramatically increase your website traffic and conversions, customer relationships and build your authority within your industry.
But to enjoy these types of results you need to follow a few simple guidelines, and here they are…
Where to Find Content Ideas for Your Articles and Blogs
You know that good content will keep your target audience coming back for more. You have insights you'd like to share, you keep track of industry trends, and you – of course - have a good working knowledge of your product / service. But how do you get started?
Email Blacklists - Are your emails getting bounced?
When you send an email to certain recipients (but not necessarily all), are they coming back as rejected? If so, one of the causes may be your IP address, a unique number sequence that identifies each computer attached to the Internet, is in one of the blacklist databases the recipient’s mail server checks.
Do It Yourself Search Engine Optimisation
Having trouble getting your website ranking high up on the ladder? Here are a few simple steps that you yourself can do to help your websites SEO.
Benefits of Social Media on Your Website
Social media profiles work perfectly well with your website to promote your online business. Using links on your website plays a major part in its search engine rankings. Google for example will automatically associate your social media pages with your company when recognising the links on your website. There are a number of ways to integrate your social media presence onto your website.
Mobile Website or Native App?
If you plan on having a mobile presence for your business, you should first consider whether you want to create a mobile application for users to download (native app) or a mobile website. Mobile websites and native apps can be very similar and the difference between the capabilities are narrowing rapidly. But which one should you choose?
Responsive vs. Scalable Email Design
Email design can be very different from normal web design. Since every email client (i.e Outlook, Gmail, Apple Mail) you would come across is extremely different and do not have the same HTML standards as each other, unlike web browsers, it can be quite complex to design an email template to suit all clients across the board.
Who’s Viewing my Website on a Mobile Phone?
If you’re finding it hard to decide on where to go next with your website, for example, making it mobile friendly, the obvious option is to do a little research.
Responsive Website Design
Meet the next best thing to happen in website development, responsive web design. Say goodbye to paying for multiple templates to suit every different screen size and operating systems from smartphones to PC’s and say hello to just ONE adaptive design that works for all growing technology. Now why wouldn’t you want a website that works equally well across thousands of different screens?
Include your phone number in your webpage desciption
Add your phone number to the description of your website page to increase your enquiries.