Looking to add design flair to your website but not sure how or where to start? Background patterns could be the answer. Background patterns make it easy for non-designers to add instant style to a website. This post explains how to find and use them. What are background patterns? Background patterns are pre-built image files […]
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I build all my client WordPress websites using the Astra theme. It’s a well-built, highly-featured and easy-to-use theme from an established company — all of which are important to me for delivering consistent and quality customer service to my website customers. Astra makes it easy and intuitive for my small business website owner clients to
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Building a website is one thing, making it look good is another. And for those of us who are not designers by trade (the vast majority of us!), ‘making it look good’ can be difficult. In this post, we’ll share some awesome beginners’ tips for easily making your site look attractive. Introduction First thing to
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Introduction When designing a good-looking web page, the amount of space between the elements on your page (between the text, headings and images, for example) is one of the most important factors to consider. And that space is super-easy to create and to adjust in the WordPress editor by using the margin and padding controls.
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If you’re editing a WordPress page full of text and images, it can, at first glance be a bit tricky to know where all the editing tools and functions are. WordPress makes that easy with some cool tools that guide you as you work. Here’s some tips on the most useful workflow tools built into
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Editing content on a WordPress site is very simple. It really is! This page explains how to get started. The four most basic steps to editing in WordPress Here are the four basic steps to editing a page or post in WordPress: That’s it. You’ve now made your first WordPress edit. Congrats! There are of
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I build all my websites using the online WordPress software. I do this for several reasons, including — from my clients’ perspective — control, flexibility and the ease-of-use it gives them to directly edit and update their sites online, and get results instantly. But there can be times when it is helpful to edit a
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Introduction to basic SEO In the digital world, having a highly visible presence is vital to customers finding you. Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) can boost your website’s visibility and drive organic traffic. Organic traffic means visitors to your website who find you freely in the search engine, without you paying for advertising. In this blog
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We get asked regularly questions such as: How do we improve our website? How do we attract more customers? How do we appear higher up in Google searches? In this blog we’ll be posting tips and hints on those topics, and many more, to increase your knowledge and marketing chops and help take your Kāpiti
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