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This WordPress Media Uploader Problem Makes Your Blog Look Amateur 🤦‍♂️

Published: August 11, 2015; Updated: March 5, 2024 Filed Under: Design, Video, WordPress

WordPress Thumbnails

WordPress automatically creates thumbnails when you upload images. Add a featured image to a post and a smaller thumbnail is used for your blog archive. How does yours look?

2 Advantages of Using PNG instead of JPEG on Your Website 📰

Published: July 28, 2015; Updated: March 5, 2024 Filed Under: Design, Video

PNG Format

What format do you save your digital images to? Would you like to take advantage of background transparency? Try the PNG format…

Plan Your Website On Page SEO: Free Excel Template 🚧

Published: June 30, 2015; Updated: September 8, 2023 Filed Under: Featured, Video, Web Development

Website Architecture, Planning & Development Spreadsheet

The next time you build, develop or SEO a website, consider using this handy free Excel spreadsheet document designed to help organise on page data…

Delete Blank Lines in CSS Stylesheet & Increase Website Speed

Published: May 5, 2015; Updated: June 12, 2017 Filed Under: Video, Web Development

Dreamweaver Find & Replace Screenshot

In this post I’ll reveal a quick method to reduce the amount of blank lines in your CSS stylesheet using Dreamweaver. This can improve website load speed…

Say What? How Your Website Colours Communicate

Published: March 17, 2015; Updated: April 6, 2018 Filed Under: Design, Internet

How Your Website Colours Communicate

Website design colour schemes must be analysed carefully. The colour palette you choose affects communication, user experience and purchase decisions…

How To Find Social Website RSS Feeds 🔬

Published: February 3, 2015; Updated: September 8, 2023 Filed Under: Social, Web Development

Find Social Website RSS Feeds

If you’re like me you enjoy playing with RSS feeds for content automation. I’ve turned my Twitter timeline into an RSS reader and it fetches the things I want to see…

Cookies, Privacy and Permission: Is Your Website Legal? 👨‍⚖️

Published: February 25, 2014; Updated: September 8, 2023 Filed Under: Internet, Legal, Video, Web Development

Cookies Privacy and Permission Is Your Website Legal

All websites operating in the UK and Europe need to ensure they are complying with EU data protection legislation…

The Long Term View on Digital Marketing

Published: August 25, 2013; Updated: April 15, 2017 Filed Under: Internet, Marketing, Social, Web Development

Think Long Term for Your Small Biz Digital Marketing

With Google’s ongoing search algorithm updates/penalties the emphasis for internet marketing is on content, sharing, value, sociability, engagement, and community…

Create a Twitter Automatic Voucher Code System

Published: March 26, 2013; Updated: May 13, 2015 Filed Under: Internet, Marketing, Sales, Social, Web Development

How to Create a Twitter Automatic Voucher Code System

Using Twitter and the Twitter API you can customise their website embedded widgets feature and turn it into a DIY voucher code display system…

Fast Food Restaurant Owner? Market Your Menu with QR Codes 🍔

Published: March 12, 2013; Updated: September 8, 2023 Filed Under: Internet, Marketing, Web Development

Restaurant Owner? Market Your Menu with QR Code Flyers

If you run a fast food outlet, cafe or eatery, are you driving traffic to your website or other web properties using QR codes?

Link Bait Specific CommentLuv Blog Posts to Market Your Website

Published: March 5, 2013; Updated: March 23, 2015 Filed Under: Internet, Marketing, Social

Link Bait Specific CommentLuv Blog Posts to Market Your Web Content

CommentLuv is an RSS blog comment system that fetches the link of your latest post and adds it below a text comment. This has potential for marketing a website…

Small Business Website – DIY Vs Pro ⚖️

Published: January 2, 2013; Updated: September 8, 2023 Filed Under: Design, Internet, Marketing, Web Development

Small Business Website - DIY Vs Professional

There’s no question about it: a website is essential for any small business. If you don’t exist on the web, you’re creating unnecessary inconvenience…

DIY Laminated Printed QR Code 🖨️

Published: September 25, 2012; Updated: August 27, 2023 Filed Under: Design, Marketing

DIY Printed QR Code Marketing Materials

Here is a low cost method for experimenting with printed weather proof QR codes to promote a local product or service on a website…

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