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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How To Reverse The Order Of An Ordered List

A client of mine has a huge list of testimonials (more than 50), and rather than counting down the list, it was appropriate to number them backwards so the latest testimonial (in this case, #51) is at the top of the list and numbered #51 rather than #1 (which wouldn’t make much sense). The End [...]

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Premium WordPress Plugins – When The Free Ones Are Crap

Don’t get me wrong, I love WordPress because it’s free. And the themes are free and the plugins are free. Fantastic! But lately, I’ve been searching for more complicated plugins for my own websites and for clients, and the free ones just aren’t doing the job. And support for these plugins is virtually non-existent. The [...]

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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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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 [...]

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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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