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Responsive wordpress website design

We’re choosing to use WordPress for more and more clients websites these days. The good thing is that we can rely on wordpress to handle all the dull routine which leaves us more time to concentrate on the presentation and usability of our websites. This keeps development costs as low as possible which enables us…

November 4, 2012 by Gary Filed Under: Design and Redesign, Updating and Improving Tagged With: Wordpress, Website Redesign, Responsive

New hosting packages available

We’ve used a lot of different hosting companies over the last couple of years, some by choice, and some because they seem like a match for the new website. Every website has different needs, simple static websites place far less pressure on their host server than say a dynamic database driven e-commerce store. Which host to…

November 4, 2012 by Gary Filed Under: Announcements Tagged With: Hosting

How to Create a Client Area in WordPress

Adding a secure area for clients to log in to your wordpress website and access specific pages and/or categories. [alert color=”yellow”] This post contains information over 2 years old and the plugins may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. Please follow this link for our latest recommendations. [/alert] Increasingly companies…

September 16, 2012 by Gary Filed Under: Coding Tagged With: Wordpress, Plugins

Redirect non-admin users from wp-admin

This simple function will redirect any logged in users (apart from admins) back to the homepage if they try to access the wp-admin folder directly. Add the following code your theme’s functions.php file.  

September 16, 2012 by Gary Filed Under: Coding Tagged With: Wordpress, Snippets

SEO Chichester

Are you looking for more traffic to your Chichester businesses website? By ensuring your website’s pages are well optimised we can help your Chichester business get higher rankings in the search engine results pages. On page or on site SEO is the first step in getting targeted visitors to the website of your Chichester business.…

July 8, 2012 by Gary Filed Under: Updating and Improving Tagged With: SEO, Search Engine Optimisation

Small Business Blogging

As part of your offsite SEO strategy guest blogging or article writing is one of the ways to help drive new visitors and generally increase exposure for your businesses website. Choosing where to publish your articles is an important one. You’re ideally looking for popular websites that are in your sector, but aren’t direct competitors.…

July 2, 2012 by Gary Filed Under: Updating and Improving Tagged With: Blogs, SEO, Search Engine Optimisation

Welcome To Our Website

It’s tempting isn’t it? After all good manners cost nothing and a little politeness goes a long way. But before you title the main page of your website “Welcome to our website” have a look at all the competing (in a polite way of course) websites. I’ve just done a google search for “intitle:welcome to…

July 2, 2012 by Gary Filed Under: Getting Started Tagged With: Search Engine Optimisation

Password protect a website or directory using .htaccess

How to set up .htaccess to password protect a website or directory. This brief guide is for those of you running an Apache web server in a windows environment. This is an easy to follow guide for basic password protection of a directory on your Apache powered server. This is in no way a complete…

June 12, 2012 by Gary Filed Under: Coding Tagged With: Apache

WordPress missing admin menu bar

If you’re missing the admin bar whilst developing your wordpress theme it’s usually a pretty easy problem to fix. You need to check two files in your custom theme folder. header.php footer.php First open up the header.php file and check that the wp_head() function has been called. This can be anywhere above the closing head…

May 3, 2012 by Gary Filed Under: Coding Tagged With: Wordpress

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