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Why you should care about responsive web design
Sure, web design and development might be a little over your head. Maybe you forked out for a designer to build your site, maybe you bought a premium theme or use a free one. Maybe you’ve heard this buzzword “responsive design” being bandied about here and there. But what has it got to do with
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Why Your Website Call To Action Sucks
A checklist for effective call to actions. You’ve probably heard the term ‘call to action’ mentioned when anyone talks about effective marketing and websites. A call to action is a suggested action that guides people towards an outcome. It’s a clear direction, unambiguous and direct and it’s one of the factors behind driving real action
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How to Make your Web Content Look Neat in a Tweet
The Australian Open is in full swing in Melbourne at the moment and as a huge tennis fan I’ve been adding loads of new content to my tennis blog and also sharing other people’s content regularly via Twitter. Several times I’ve wanted to share articles that I enjoyed reading but gave up either because I
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Secret Web Biz – The live recording is out!
Last year we had the pleasure of working with Karl Staib from Party Biz Connect who runs Twitter parties. The whole concept of Twitter parties was new to us (and everyone else!), but we were excited at figuring out how it would work for our Grassroots community. The result was something that was really quite
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Using Inspect Element or Firebug to peek behind the scenes of your WordPress website
Have you ever been frustrated by the way something appears on your website? Perhaps you thought some text was going to be green, but it actually looks red. Or perhaps you formatted text to be aligned to the left, but it’s actually centred. Maybe an image has an ugly-coloured border around it that you didn’t
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Protect your website with the right Terms and Conditions
As a website owner, you want people to visit your site and make use of the information you provide. However, you also want to make sure that people using your site are using it appropriately and properly. Given your website is in the public domain, you should also ensure that you are properly protected from
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12 reasons to have a Facebook page
I talk to a lot of people who either have a Facebook page for their business or who are thinking about getting one. The one thing that often stands out to me is that people don’t know why they have a page. The reason they give when asked can be “I was told to” or
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Video for Business: Using a Presenter vs. Mere Mortals
It’s understandable that many business people baulk at appearing on camera. Most of us believe that being in front of the lens is something best left to professionals; those who posses a magical element (and good looks!) that mere mortals lack. Yet, take a closer look – what is the key difference between these professionals and
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Top 7 Tips For Website Success
Having presented on the ‘Essential Elements of Website Success‘ in the Grassroots Website Boot Camp I thought it would be useful to share my top 7 tips for those who haven’t seen the webinar. My top tips of website success are things you can do yourself – you don’t necessarily need big budgets or a web
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What is a “Gravatar” and Why do you Need one?
Have you heard of the term “Gravatar”? What is it and do you need one? Well, okay. No, it’s not some character out of the successful Avatar movie, although perhaps in a way, it is kind of substantiated in its effect. Have you ever been reading a blog post and then gone to leave your
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