Blog

Our blog on topics relating to technology and your business. We trust you find the information here useful and helpful to you and your business.

How to add a Youtube video to your website

This is one of the topics covered during our WordPress workshop today. This will add a video from YouTube to your page or post which will appear as an embedded video player on your website and which allows the video to be  played from within your site. [Read more...]

Why use Google Analytics

What is Google Analytics

For those who are not aware of Google Analytics, it is a tool that tool the Google supplies for free for any website to use. Google Analytics gives you the ability to interrogate data about the visits to your site. You can how visitors use your site, pages they visit and how they came to your site in the first place, and if they have returned. [Read more...]

How to create a link to another page or website

Links are a very important part of the web an allow us to navigate around the Internet with ease.

When creating a link to an external site I would always recommend making the link open a new window for the external site, that way the user will not “lose” your site, and will come back to it once they have visited the external site. For internal links I would keep the user in the same window.

It is best to keep links within context of the content you are writing, also make the link text meaningful rather then click here for example. This will help with your Google Search engine optimisation. [Read more...]

Why we recommend Google Apps

We recommend Google Apps to all our clients.  It a great email system, giving you up to 10 custom email addresses per domain making sure that your company gives the right impression. Google apps also provides a suite of online tools which will help your business function smoothly. Shared online calendars can be accessed from anywhere to enable colleagues to view and update and to schedule meetings easily. Google docs also provides an online storage and sharing of documents including spreadsheets, presentations and forms.

Why we use the Genesis Framework from Studiopress

The Genesis Framework is a solid foundation for a good WordPress Website.  Not only is a great parent theme but there are many child themes available to enable you to have a website with the look and feel you would like.  In addition to this it is easy to create a bespoke theme or adapt a theme introducing more functionality using code to create your own unique design. [Read more...]

Why we use WordPress

As a web developer, I have been so impressed with WordPress that I now recommend it to all my clients. Here are some of the reasons why I do and why I am now a great fan of wordpress :- [Read more...]