Website Design Tauranga

5 Ways Your Potential Clients May Be Reacting To Your Contact Form (And What You Can Do About It)

Do you use a contact form on the “Contact Us” page on your website? If so, check this list of common mistakes to see if you are making your prospective clients angry or just turning them away. 5 Ways Your Potential Clients May Be Reacting To Your Contact Form (And What You Can Do About [...]

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Got A NZ Business But Using A .com Website Address?

20% of google searchers see your .com result & think “how did that American website get into my search results? Google must have screwed up. Oh well, I’ll click on the next one”. Use a .co.nz website address if you have a NZ business. Even if your target customers are overseas, being a .co.nz adds [...]

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The First 4 Questions You Must Always Ask When Planning A New Website

Who are the audience groups? What information do they want? What action do we want each audience group to take? How do we arrange the main navigation to give them access to that information and to take that action? (this is where we plan the sitemap) Need More Help To Plan Your Website? The task [...]

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What Does Your Website Look Like In Different Browsers? Different Screen Sizes? Different Colour Settings?

Have you noticed that when you visit your own website using someone elses computer that it can look quite different? And sometimes elements are completely missing or broken and don’t work how they do on your computer at work or home? Using BrowserShots.org, you can simulate what your website will look like to all sorts [...]

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Difference Between Unique Visitors, Visitors, Visits, Page Views, Hits. And Why You Should Care

First, the definitions: Unique Visitors – The number of individuals who have visited your website. But, if a person on a dial-up connection disconnects and reconnects, they will be assigned a different IP address and therefore be counted as another unique visitor if they return to your website. Visits or Visitors – The number of [...]

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Website Hosting – What “99.5% Uptime” Really Means

If you have ever researched alternatives for hosting your website, you have probably come across statements such as “99.5% Uptime – guaranteed!”. If you see “99.5% fat free” on the side of your yoghurt, you’d think “great!”, but “99.5% uptime” is not very good at all. How many minutes/hours of downtime a year can you [...]

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Should You Choose A Website Designer in Tauranga?

When it’s time to build a website for your Tauranga (or Mount Maunganui, or Papamoa) business, you have many choices when choosing a web designer. Do you choose an international web development company? Do you choose a major New Zealand webdesign company that is based in Auckland, Wellington or Christchurch? Or do you choose a [...]

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My Favourite Free WordPress Plugins

My Favourite FREE WordPress Plugins All in One SEO Pack Out-of-the-box Search Engine Optimisation Collision Testimonials Easily add, edit, and delete client testimonials for your website Contact Form 7 Simple but flexible contact forms Google Analyticator Adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google’s Analytics Scissors Enhances the way WordPress handles images by introducing cropping, [...]

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My Favourite Free WordPress Themes

Here’s a list of my favourite FREE WordPress Themes Mystique jQ iNove Fusion

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Does Your Business Need A Website?

I believe that every business on the planet needs a website. It could be just a single page with your contact details.  That might be all a small business needs. Every business needs some sort of web presence online to send people to. Still not convinced? That’s what this page is for. 8 Ways Your [...]

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