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

January 19, 2010

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

January 11, 2010

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

January 5, 2010

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

December 10, 2009

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?

November 18, 2009

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

November 14, 2009

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

November 14, 2009

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

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Does Your Business Need A Website?

November 14, 2009

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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Essential Steps for Building a Website That Generates Business For You

November 14, 2009

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 [...]

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How To Write For The Web

November 14, 2009

Writing for the web is pretty simple on the surface, but the switch from writing for print to writing for the web is a difficult one for many people. Here are some writing-for-the-web techniques to get you started: 1. Use long descriptive headlines, sub headings and sub-sub headings People commonly skim read web content very [...]

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