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)

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The task of planning a new website [...]

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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 of people [...]

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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 visits to [...]

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Using WordPress? How To Get Your New Blog Article In Google Search Results Within 30 Minutes

Why wait for Googlebot to visit your website next week and notice your new blog post when you can tell Google that your new blog article is ready to show the world right now?
By default, your WordPress installation will have one url to ping, but that’s not enough, you need more.
Here’s What You Do In [...]

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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 expect? Here’s [...]

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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 web designer in [...]

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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, resizing, rotating, and watermarking

Subscribe To Comments

Allows readers to receive notifications [...]

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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 Business Can Benefit From [...]

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Essential Steps for Building a Website That Generates Business For You

8 Essential Steps:

Define the most important action that you want the audience to take. Is it filling in an enquiry form? Call your toll free number? Download an information pack?
Make it dead easy for them to take that action. 1 click or 2 clicks. Not 5 clicks
Make your forms super short. Ask for essential information [...]

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