Using Ping to Manage Your Social Networks

Lately we’ve been getting a lot of clients wanting to publish once on their blog and have the post syndicated to all of other other social network sites. This is no straightforward task, as there are a myriad of different WordPress plugins that need various API’s, logins and so forth. It can get mind numbingly [...]

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Classics Coupes & Collectables

Classics Coupes & Collectables came to Web Matters looking for a highly visual design for their Christchurch classic car sales yard. The design needed to be retro and fun, and to convey that feeling of driving a classic vehicle. We worked with them to find the right stock images for the design and worked on [...]

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Christchurch Earthquake Images (September 2010)

These are photos I took the morning of the earthquake and a couple of days later. They show the devastation to the inner city heritage buildings. It will take years for Christchurch to recover and we will very much be the worse off for losing some of our wonderful old buildings.

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Brown Acre Villas Goes Live

Brown Acre Villas is a peaceful lifestyle community under construction in Parker Street, Motueka. This is your chance to enjoy the comfort and style of your own home with the security and reassurance of community living at an affordable price. We developed their new website which went live recently. View online at www.brownacrevillas.co.nz

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How to import an RSS feed into WordPress that makes posts

For some time I’ve thought it would be pretty neat to be able to have an RSS feed imported into WordPress that would create posts with the URL of the blog doing the importing. I’d had a look around to see if there was something out there that would do it, but kept coming up [...]

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Pre-made DIY websites

We’ll soon have pre-made high quality original designs for websites available for purchase and integration into your own website. Essentially you will be buying a one-off design off-the-shelf that is ready to go. It won’t look like any of the other site’s we’ve designed, but it will follow the basic principles of web usability that [...]

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Making the most of your email signature

Is your email signature letting you down? It would have to be one of the most overlooked marketing methods out there. Everyone knows to put contact details in their signature now, but that’s old hat.  To get your email signature really working over time for you, you need to personalise it and include marketing messages. [...]

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Canterbury Tahr Hunting Goes Live

We’ve just launched the Canterbury Tahr Hunting website for professional hunting guide John Royle. Built in WordPress the website features large images that are used to capture the feeling of a truly authentic New Zealand hunting trip, a large background image, a blog, and a dynamic gallery of hunting and scenic New Zealand pictures. View [...]

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New website design packages

In time for the new year and getting back into the swing of things for 2010, we have developed our all new website design packages. These packages should suit the needs of most small and medium sized businesses or self employed professionals. Our bronze, silver and gold web packages all include blogging functionality. Find out [...]

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Greg O’Connell website launched

Greg is a Greymouth based poet who does poetry performance workshops for children. His website has just gone live at www.gregoconnell.com Greg was looking for an easy way to publish his work as well as the poems written by the children who attend his workshops. Web Matters developed his site in the WordPress blog and [...]

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