Posts

Thinking about buying and using a premium WordPress theme on your website? Here’s a few things you need to know.

December 15, 2016

If you are on a budget, using a Premium WordPress theme from a theme marketplace can seem like a dream solution – you get lots of bells and whistles for a very small monetary investment. Except, based on my past experience assisting clients to do just that, the dream can […]

Read More

Be Consistent and Persistent to Ensure a Successful Website

April 30, 2014

Being consistent and persistent is a little maxim I have developed for updating my website. It’s a simple philosophy I apply to my design and content. Like everyone else in business, I’m busy doing the work that makes me money and I can easily let months go by without updating […]

Read More

How do websites accidentally go offline and what happens to your rankings?

March 25, 2014

It’s never a good moment when you realise your website has gone off-line, especially if you are not sure how long it’s been down. Most people don’t visit their own website everyday, and unless they have a site monitoring system set up, weeks can go by with the website being […]

Read More

A quick fix for when your website is stuck in WordPress maintenance mode

March 11, 2014

Whenever you update your WordPress installation or any of the plugins via the WordPress dashboard, the website goes into ‘maintenance mode’ with a message displayed saying “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.” Maintenance mode is fine if it’s just for a minute, but if you’ve upgraded […]

Read More

Mobile Friendly Websites – an introduction to responsive website design and why it’s so important

March 5, 2014

If you have ever viewed a traditional website on a smart phone and had to zoom in and out to read the content, then you have been to a website that is not ‘responsive’. If on the other hand, the content displayed perfectly on your smart phone without any need […]

Read More

Beware the extra ‘DNS’ management fee with some overseas domain name registries

March 4, 2014

It really is a case of ‘buyer beware’ when purchasing domain names and services online. What can look like a great cost-saving, can in fact end up costing you more money in the long run. This is particularly the case if you use an overseas registration service for your domain […]

Read More

My attempt to write a blog post in fifteen minutes

January 13, 2014

As I write this blog post, it is 11.42am. I’ve just completed my morning’s admin, and finished off the final writing and SEO for a website. It occurred to me, that I should spend the next 15 minutes writing a blog post to see just how far I could get […]

Read More

How to register a New Zealand Domain Name

November 27, 2013

Though the process of registering a domain name is quite straight forward there are a few things you need to be aware of. These are things that I keep coming across in my day to day working life as a web designer in New Zealand

Read More

Some of the search engine optimisation results we’ve acheived for our web design clients

November 29, 2012

In this short video, I talk about search engine optimisation and some of the results I have achieved for my clients. As a web designer, I’m often asked if I ‘do SEO’. The short answer is yes. In fact, I’ve been doing SEO since before we had a name for […]

Read More

Celebrant for You, Premium WordPress Theme set up case study

November 28, 2012

Celebrant for You is a new site for Suzanne Teague an Auckland marriage celebrant. Before contacting Web Matters, Suzanne had already decided on WordPress to run her website and had gotten as far as getting the hosting set up, WordPress installed and a WordPress theme purchased and installed. Things got […]

Read More

Having trouble with that premium WordPress theme installation? Help is at hand…

November 12, 2012

So you’ve just bought a shiny new WordPress theme, but for the life of you, you just can’t get it to look the way it did in the theme demo. This is an all too common problem. But don’t worry; help is just an email away. I’m often contacted by […]

Read More

How to create an image banner for your website using Pixlr.com

November 6, 2012

I’ve put together a quick video instruction on how to create an image banner for your website that uses exact pixel dimensions. For best viewing, click on the play in HD button. Pixlr.com is an excellent online image editing system that is easy and fast to use. Go to www.pixlr.com […]

Read More
Shopping Cart
Scroll to Top