WordPress has dominated the global blogging market for many years. If you have decided you want to use WordPress for your platform you have two choices. You could choose to host it on your own server or you could use the servers on WordPress itself. But what does that mean and what it right for you? Continue reading
Facebook provide everyone with free analytic so you can see how well you’re posts are doing. If you are having to report to others the growth of your Facebook page then there are 10 metrics that could be showing…
While impressions and re-tweets are important they are still only a part of the overall understanding of what your audience likes and ignores. The best times to tweet will help but understanding more of the metrics will help even more… Continue reading
Do you want a thumbnail on your WordPress homepage without having to place that image in your main post? It is very easy to do but just as easy to miss. This guide shows you what to do… Continue reading
Sometimes you get stuck in your ways and it can be difficult to break free from a routine. Spending time on social media each day is something many of us do but we can often overlook the obvious and latest techniques. Continue reading
No matter how careful we are, visitors to a website can find themselves staring at a 404 error page. It is important to make sure the error experience is just as good as the website.
The most common way people find themselves at a 404 page is because of broken links on a page. It is important that you validate your links and check your analytics tools to see if you can spot the culprit.
Here are some examples of some really good error pages… Continue reading
Do you own an eCommerce website? Do you have a lot of hits but few sales?
How your shopping cart displays the content and charges can really impacts sales. Do you have to register to buy? This is another ecommerce killer.
The infographic below from CWCS gives you 10 reasons why people abandon an eCommerce site without buying anything from you. It also includes 5 factors that can lead to customers spending more… Continue reading
It can be difficult to find the latest news relating to content you wish to share on social media. Many tools cater for PC but for us Mac users there are still some really good ones that you may have missed… Continue reading
On the 21st April 2015 Google announced that, for mobile users, they will start giving preference to the ranking positions of websites based on whether the sites were mobile friendly or not.
Shortly after they also announced that it may take a few days to a week for the results to start displaying correctly. Now that we’ve started to see the results filtering through let’s take a step back and examine what has happened. Continue reading
I’ve been working several websites over the last few weeks to bring them inline with Google’s mobile changes which came into force on the 21st April. From that date Google will start giving preference to mobile-friendly websites on all mobile searches.
Results now show ‘mobile friendly’
Although some of the websites I have created look fairly complex they all have simplistic structures which enables them to be easily updated, or in this case, have a responsive design with little extra work.
Google do have a mobile test tool so you can check to see if your website already passes. If you have a website and you need help or advice then please contact me.
I have been busy adding responsive styling to a number of existing clients which include: Continue reading