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Email: IMAP vrs POP

New Email Address When you have your new website set up you will probably also have a new email address, for example info@yourdomain.com. You can access your new email account usually by logging in via your host account but this can be a bit cumbersome, especially if you have just set up your site and [...]

How to make a Paypal Gift Certificate

If you are selling stuff on your site with Paypal, its an easy extra step to make a gift certificate. Log onto your Business account on paypal and go to Merchant Tools> Gift Certificates>Create your button now. You will need to enter your website, as the place where the recepient can redeem their gift. You [...]

How to add a Paypal Shopping Cart to your WordPress site using WP Simple Shopping Cart

If you have a few items to sell in your online shop you will need more than just a few “buy now with paypal” buttons. A good solution is to get a free plugin called “WP Simple Paypal Shopping cart”. 1. Set up your Paypal Business account. 2. Install and activate “Wp Simple Paypal Shopping [...]

How to add Paypal “Buy Now” button to your site

1. Set up a business merchants account on Paypal.com 2. Go to “Merchant Tools” and select “buy now buttons”. It’s a good idea to make your own button design first and upload it to your site. This way the button design can match in with your site. But if you are happy with just the [...]

Adding a Favicon to your WordPress site

In most browsers, when you open up a new tab there is a little logo beside the name of the website, either in the address bar or in the tab itself. This is called a Favicon and it’s really easy to add this to your site. Firstly create the image you want. It must be [...]

Adding content to your website

Simplify Put the most important parts at the top of the page. Keep written content as concise and clear as possible. Be consistent across your site if you have similar information about yourself on different pages, for example class times in a fitness website. Organise with headers and paragraphs Write small paragraphs under meaningful headings. [...]

Using Headers

Because there is so much irrelevant information online, we all scan through webpages and searches and indexes to find what we are looking for. When writing content for the web we need to simplify and order it so that it is clear within seconds what the content is about and we can do this with [...]

Analysing your Website

Analyse your Site You need to analyse your website so that you can see what parts are getting the most attention, and what parts are being ignored. Then you can adapt your site to ensure that the most important parts are getting the most attention. That’s at the most basic level – how long are [...]

LinkedIn Groups

LinkedIn is a social networking site for professionals where you post information about your work experience and career goals as opposed to baby snaps. It’s worth joining some groups once you’ve joined LinkedIn. I recommend joining ones related to your profession, and especially ones that organise meet ups in the real world, otherwise what’s the [...]

Make my site go faster

Assess your speed Check your load speed by visiting Google labs and typing in your site name. You will get a rating out of 100 and you will get suggestions on how to improve your speed and the culprits behind the slowness will be listed – for example large images. Resize and Optimise Images Everytime you [...]