Tag - WordPress

WordPress backup, computer backing up to the cloud

Not backing up your site? Your business could be in danger!

WordPress backups of your website are vitally important. Any experienced website owner will tell you this. However, many new WordPress users tend to neglect to backup their site. This might be because they think nothing bad will happen or maybe because they’ve looked into backing up and it’s too expensive or time-consuming. Unfortunately, if something goes wrong with your website you could lose everything. Let’s discuss why backups are so fundamentally important. Hackers Sadly, it’s not surprising to learn that there are [...]

wordpress development

Why WordPress Development is Important

This week we’ll be answering the question of why WordPress development is so important for a small business. WordPress is currently one of the most popular platforms for business websites. While there are a number of platforms available, in our opinion (as well as the opinion of several others) WordPress is the most important one to learn. So why is that? Recommended Reading: Making Social Media Work For Your Business (and what to do if you don’t have time)  Infinitely customisable The main [...]

wordpress websites

WordPress Websites: Why You Need To Use Them

In this day and age, it is important that every business has a website. Your website should be easily navigable, readable and aesthetically pleasing. Luckily, the WordPress websites platform is designed to fulfil all of these needs. This post will explain why you should become one of the 59% of businesses that rely on WordPress for their company website. Learn more about designing WordPress websites in Southampton Simple User Interface One of the best things about WordPress is its clear and simple [...]

Wordpress Plugins

What Do You Know About WordPress Plugins?

WordPress Plugins are interchangeable adaptations that help enhance your website design. Southampton WordPress Specialists can use them to help custom-build your web design layout, making your business website unique. WordPress explains further: “A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. ” There are thousands of [...]

web design for southampton

5 Rules Your Business Needs to Know About Web Design

Every business needs a website in this day and age and great, effective web design for Southampton businesses is how we make our living. Online shopping is fast becoming the ultimate avenue of influence in purchase power. Content management systems like WordPress hosts over 64 million websites and it is growing fast because it combines simple, easy to use and attractive visual content with strong blogging capabilities. Take into account the importance of SEO ranking in google searches and you have [...]

WordPress alt-tags

Introduction to WordPress Alt-Tags

We all know how important Google SEO ratings are but do we really know how the system works? The role WordPress ‘alt-tags’ play are now more crucial. Being high up on the SEO list can really increase your chances of connecting with your customers. It’s reported that almost 91% don’t ever look past the first page of search results. So what is an ‘Alt-tag’? Well, the term ‘alt-tag’ means alternative text and “it describes what’s in the image and what the content [...]

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10 Reasons Why Your Website Is Slower Than Your Rival

Is your website slower than your rival business? Customers shop online. They are casually surfing the internet and think to themselves; “Ohhh. Where can I get that thing I need? How expensive is it? Where is the closest place to buy?” These are all perfectly reasonable questions and all part of the shopping experience. The next step for the online shopper would be to check out the websites of the relevant businesses for the best possible deal. I’m sure your business [...]

Amateur web design can cost your business money

How Do You Know If Amateur Web Design Is Losing You Business?

OK. So it may seem obvious that quality is better than quantity but every business tries to save a bit of money where they can. We all have to budget and every business has areas where they try to cut costs. In this blog, we will explain why web design for your business cannot be one of them. If you hire cheap website designers then you get what you pay for. When you hire experienced, professional website designers they will [...]

WordPress specialist websites are better for your business

4 Reasons Why A WordPress Website Is Better For Your Business

WordPress is the favourite choice for many to use when designing business websites. The list of famous companies that use WordPress is endless including brands like BBC news, MTV, SONY music, Variety magazine. Heck, even NASA use it. It is by far the most successful CMS (Content Management System) tool in the business. As long as you know how to use it. It is probably not news to anyone that every business needs a website to survive this day and [...]