Google Search Essentials: Key best practices: The main things that can help improve how your site appears in Google Search results. Google SEO Starter Guide: This guide walks you through some of the most common and effective SEO improvements you can make on your site. How to improve your local ranking on Google: To maximise […]
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How will your website get found?
You may have a beautiful new website, offering fantastic products and great service – but there are now nearly two billion websites and – as most people leave within 10 seconds* if the website is slow or doesn’t instantly show what they are looking for – many of them get very few visitors. So how […]
Get started with Social Media
A quick guide to setting up your first social media page: Get ready: What are you going to share? Essentials: Photos – you will need a large – wide – header image and a small profile image; More quality photos for sharing. Your logo and the link to your website – if you have these. Who […]
How to add slides
Here’s a nice example of a slider: (Used in Canvas – WordPress Woo Themes.) The slides give an instant feel for the lovely location while allowing room for essential information for newcomers below. How to create slides: You will need about 4 or 5 photos that can be cropped to a narrow rectangle. Optimise your photos: […]
How to edit the custom menu in a WordPress website
The custom menu in a WordPress website is easy to change, but it can sometimes be a bit glitchy or slow and you might inadvertently end up with a strange result – don’t panic! It can easily be fixed with a little patience. The best way to avoid problems is to make changes one at a […]
Image editing with Irfanview
Editing photos for a WordPress website using Irfanview Why do I need to edit my images? Irfanview is deservedly popular image editing software that enables you to easily crop, resize, add text or a watermark to your image, and optimise the file size for the web. And it’s free*! Download and install Irfanview for free* from: Irfanview […]
How to add a simple product to a WooCommerce shop
Instructions for adding products to a WooCommerce shop built using the WordPress Canvas theme. You will need: Product name – see Choosing the best product names. Product description – short version and (optional) long version. Photos – optimised to 570 px square (recommended) and under 100kb (under 50kb would be even better). Add photos to the Media […]
Subheadings – Style guide
Subheadings: Suggested guidelines It’s important that subheadings are consistent so that the website is easy on the eye (and brain!). Important! Subheadings must describe the contents of the section below Use specific descriptive words to accurately describe the content of the paragraph or section beneath – not general words that could be about anything . […]
FastStone batch photo resizer
FastStone Photo Resizer is a free tool for resizing optimising and watermarking images in batches – all in one quick and easy process. These instructions offer suggestions for sizes and settings that will usually work on most websites for full size images taken from your camera. These options & settings will be retained for next […]
How to change the Navigation and Sitemap order in WordPress
Basic WordPress Menu, Navigation & Sitemap: How to change the Menu /Navigation and Site Map order in WordPress Depending on the theme used in your WordPress website, you can change the order of the pages using Quick Edit. If this does not appear to affect the main drop down menu, then you have an independent […]