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27 Things to Check Before Launching a Website

By on June 7, 2017 in Articles

Launching a web site and making sure all the “boxes are ticked” before going live involves a lot of careful work. Every good web designer will have a checklist of items that need doing before going live. If it’s a new site, then the web designer will be advising their client on a number of aspects that need looking at. e.g. great copy, ensuring branding carries through to the site, basic SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) that has keywords in place where Google likes to see them.

If it’s an existing site being moved to a new platform e.g. WordPress, then there will also be work involved in maintaining existing search engine positioning. That aspect and many others. Read more below

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WordPress Membership Web Sites

By on November 15, 2016 in Articles

WordPress membership web sites

A membership web site might be required for a number of reasons. Your web site may be

  • A club or organisation that only wants to share info with it’s members
  • You may be a commercial organisation that wants to sell content. i.e give paid access to certain areas of a website

There are a number of membership plugins out there that enable WordPress to be turned into a full membership web site. At Bay Web Design the main membership product we use is S2Member. The reason why we use this product is that

  • It’s reliable
  • Has a huge range of functionality
  • Its cost effective

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WordPress Maintenance

By on November 14, 2016 in Articles

WordPress maintenance is an often overlooked requirement after a web site goes live. After a new WordPress website goes live, there are a number of key maintenance tasks that need to be attended to on a regular basis. If you, the web site owner, haven’t got a structure in place to handle this, you may find yourself dealing with some unnecessary web site down time.

To understand why maintenance is necessary,  a brief outline of the nuts and bolts of WordPress is necessary.

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Microsoft moves 20,000 blogs from it’s own system to WordPress

By on October 4, 2016 in Articles

Bayweb: Check out the article below. A big tick for using WordPress. Note that WordPress is not just for blogs. It’s now the most used CMS for web site building as well.

Marie Dodson (@Mdodson12) reports for Torque that Microsoft just migrated 20,000 blogs with more than 1 million posts and 1.2 million comments off its own … Continue Reading

Source: https://torquemag.io/2016/09/wordpress-microsoft/

Free Coffee Consultation – Let’s chat about your website

By on August 1, 2016 in Articles
Meet over a coffee with Hawkes Bay based Bay Web Design

 

Feeling Stuck?

Feeling stuck with getting your business website online or updating your existing website?

Unsure of how you might benefit from having a business presence online?

Here’s the solution:

A FREE coffee consultation – Lets sit down over a coffee and talk about what’s possible.

Contact Bay Web Design on

0800 001 522

 or via   Contact Form or Email: phil@baywebdesign.co.nz

At our meeting we can talk about:

  • websites that you can manage yourself
  • simple strategies for bringing more people to your web site
  • what is the purpose of your website
  • search engine optimisation
  • who is your target market for your business
  • what functionality is possible on websites these days

You’ll walk away with a clearer idea of:

  • how much a website might cost you
  • how your business or organisation might benefit from having a web site
  • how search engine optimisation is a process you the web site owner can learn
  • potential ways to engage with a wider audience and build your presence online

Building a New Website

By on July 24, 2016 in Articles

The process of building a new website for you

  • We’ll meet with you and go over your requirements in detail.
  • Your website will be built and then presented to you at a demo address for feedback.
  • We then tweak the web site to ensure it meets both your intended needs and the needs of your website visitors.
  • For all of our new websites, we provide you with 2 hours of lessons which we conduct via Skype or telephone.
  • We dont stop at the free lessons – Once your website is online we will continue to provide excellent support. Email, Skype or phone any time for answers to your questions re running your website.

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Web Site Photography

By on July 2, 2016 in Articles
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Visually enhance your new or existing website with professionally captured photographs specific to your requirements.

Professional photography is an absolute must in today’s competitive business world. Your website photography and design is as equally important as your search engine optimization (SEO) and online advertising – it is essential you have high quality visual branding, presented within a stylish and effective website.

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Google Review Link Generator: How to Create a Link to Write a Review on Google

By on March 4, 2016 in Articles, Resources

It’s never been easy to link directly to a location where your customers can leave a business review. You think you are correctly linked and then Google changes the parameters of the link and it no longer works. In a nutshell, the link generator below allows you to search for your business and then create a link you can send to your clients. They can then go directly to a location where they can leave a review.

The Google Review Link Generator by Grade.us Labs lets you build review links for Google Maps, Google Places, and Google Maps apps for Android and iOS.

Source: Google Review Link Generator: How to Create a Link to Write a Review on Google | Grade.us