Running a small business often means balancing a tight budget with the need for professional-grade tools to produce professionally presented communications for your customers. The good news? You don’t have to spend thousands of dollars each year on software subscriptions. Open-source tools — and a few powerful free platforms — can deliver the same results […]
A fast-loading website isn’t just nice to have, it’s essential. Studies show that if a page takes longer than 3 seconds to load, most visitors will leave. One of the biggest culprits behind slow websites? Oversized, unoptimised images. The good news: with the right approach, you can keep your images looking sharp and make your
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Images are some of the most powerful tools on your website. They can instantly grab attention, communicate your brand’s personality, and make your content more engaging. But choosing the wrong images — blurry, off-brand, or irrelevant — can hurt your site’s credibility. Here’s a guide to help you choose the right images for your website
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The fonts and colours you choose for your website do more than make it look nice — they create a mood, tell your brand story, and help visitors instantly recognise your business. The right combination will make your site professional, cohesive, and easy to read. The wrong one? Well, let’s just say it can make
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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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