Web Design I wrote this is web design guide for small businesses in Bradford but the information is useful for any small local business in any town. Whether you choose to build your own website, or to employ a web designer, you’ll find something useful here. The first thing you need is a domain name. … Read more
These web design FAQs will help make your web design project less scary. Modern websites are designed to be used by non technical people. Small service business owners all over Yorkshire maintain their own websites, and you can too. To maintain your own website you’ll have to do a bit of learning, but then you’ll … Read more
A WordPress website has two main types of content, web pages and blog posts. Pages and posts have many differences, but the differences that matter to us are. The WordPress user roles needed to write pages and posts. And, WordPress automatically organises posts and lists them in categories, it doesn’t do that with pages. By … Read more
First, this is not a list of ways to fix all website problems. When I wrote this post, there were 8.626 free themes and 58.667 free plugins listed on the WordPress website. There are many premium themes and plugins too. Each theme or plugin might encounter many unique problems. This post gives you a general … Read more
If you’re using Microsoft Edge or Firefox web browser on a PC you can listen to these blog posts, you don’t have to read them. I find it easier to follow the text if the words are read to me at as I read. This post explains how to do it. Some web browsers have … Read more
What customers want to know about your business. As a business owner, you must know your customers. After a customer realises they have a problem, and before they contact a professional to fix it, they research online. They may have a vague idea of their problem and be unsure if a solution exists. Or they … Read more
WordPress enables people like you to have their own website, honestly! Web hosting companies want to enable business owners like you to have their own website. Because then you’ll use the web hosting they sell. So they make using WordPress as easy as possible. Nowadays, non techies can run their own website Websites were expensive, … Read more
And how can you keep the website cost down? Some web designers display a range of fixed website costs. For instance, they could say a two-page website costs £200, a six-page website costs £400 and a fifteen-page website costs £700. They would also give a list of features each site includes. Other than these fixed … Read more
My top choices for best WordPress theme are GeneratePress (premium) or Genesis Sample theme (free). I use GeneratePress theme and GenerateBlocks page builder plugin. This gives me all the options most service businesses need, and great tech support too. But GeneratePress is not the easiest theme to use, and it’s not free. If you want … Read more
Website content grows and develops over time, but at minimum you should state… who you are what you do who you help why you’re best placed to do the work and how to contact you. This seems like obvious advice but it’s surprising how many websites are vague about what services the business offers. You … Read more