website design that works
For a small business your website is a working horse. Make it work to your advantage As you can see, the new site has a ton of features the old site doesn’t: Have a good clean professional looking design information that will generate a sale or booking should be visible clearly at the top of […]
WordPress Sites Rock
Search Engines love wordpress website. Must be the way they are structured and the way you can popularise them. What you can do with WordPress Sites:- Can be a normal site Can have a blog Can set up RSS feeds to popularise your site Can have plugin to create tags for your content. (These act […]
Small Business Blogs
Why should small businesses have blogs? It is the easiest way of interacting with your customers, prospects. Once it is set up even if you post once in 3 weeks or once every month it adds value to your existing customers. Write a marketing message, announce new products an services have contests – anything to […]
Google Makes Loading Time Important
To get ranked better in Google, your website has to load fast. I have always stressed this aspects to all my customers and state this in my promotions. A fast loading site gives the user a good experience. How many times we get frustrated and click away from a site that takes forever to load? […]
How to choose a web hosting company
For a small business your website can be the most important marketing tool, brochure, online shop for you. I have clients whose livelihood depends on their website. If you are planning to start a business like that or planning to sell online you need to choose your web hosting company very carefully. The things you […]
Make search work well
Once you have fixed your navigation, the next one you need to focus on is the search function on your site. When you get a visitor looking for a specific product & lands on your site make sure you have your search function working properly. If the results do not come up on search you […]
Internet Explorer 6
Microsoft has celebrated the imminent demise of version 6 of its Internet Explorer browser by baking a cake. The software giant held the light-hearted celebration as it revealed that the program was used by less than 1% of US internet surfers. It is keen to kill off the old version of the browser and persuade […]
Google Instant
Google has released a new search facility known as Google instant. In the normal Google search when you type in a search phrase Google will give you a few suggests – related Google searches. You had to pick what you want in the search box and click enter. With Google instant as you type the […]
Do I have to be a local designer?
I see a lot of searches in my stats with names of cities other than where I live (wellington). I have local clients and clients all over New Zealand. With email and skype or phone it is so easy to get what you want these days. I have not met most of my customers face-to-face. […]
Amazing Software
I stumbled on evernote a few years ago. For some reason I stopped using it. Found it again a few weeks ago. How did I manage without this amazing software. It makes my life so much easier. It is my online journal to do list address book clip board (literally as I place clippings all […]