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How to Successfully Use Instagram within your Business

Instagram is a free, visual social media platform with over 2 billion monthly users worldwide. It allows businesses to share photos and videos, build brand awareness and sell products directly through built-in shopping tools, creating an additional online sales channel. Read on to discover the key benefits to using Instagram with your business.

WooCommerce vs. Shopify: Which Is Right for Your Online Store?

By Michelle Warner

When launching an online store, choosing the right platform is one of the most important decisions you’ll make. Two of the most popular options are WooCommerce (powered by WordPress) and Shopify. Both offer excellent tools to sell online, but they have very different strengths and trade-offs. To help you decide, let’s break down the pros and cons of each.

Adding a new page to your navigation bar in WordPress

By janet

Adding a page to your WordPress website's navigation bar is essential for making it easy for visitors to find important content. Here's how to do it using the WordPress dashboard:

Setting up 365 emails in Outlook

By janet

Setting up your business's/organization's Microsoft 365 emails in Outlook is a relatively straightforward process. Here's a general guide to help you:

How to Keep your WordPress Website Secure

By Michelle Warner

Nobody wants to have their website hacked but in truth it is becoming more and more common. This blog post focuses on how you can tighten the security of your WordPress website.

How Covid-19 is Changing Businesses Online

By Michelle Warner

As a result of Covid-19 companies are rapidly having to change the way in which they conduct business. One of these changes is to embrace what the virtual world has to offer to meet the growing demands of consumers. This article takes a closer look at just some of the trends that have emerged online since the start of the pandemic.

Common WordPress Myths

By Michelle Warner

WordPress is a powerful Content Management System (CMS) used to make both small and large scale websites. Over 30% of the world's websites use WordPress and this includes some famous names such as BBC America, Sony Music and Microsoft News. Despite this there are still a number of myths that cast a shadow over WordPress, making people doubt its capabilities. In this article we put to bed some of those myths.

How to Update WordPress Safely

By Michelle Warner

If you have a WordPress website then you will be all so familiar with the update alert messages that often appear when you login to the admin area. This article covers why it is important to ensure that your WordPress website is kept up-to-date and what steps you should take to carry them out safely.

Top 20 WordPress Plugins

By Michelle Warner

We love WordPress and we also love some of the fantastic plugins that are available to help transform an average website into an amazing one. Take a look at our top 20 recommended WordPress plugins, tried and tested by us.

Top Ways To Make More Money From Your Website

By Michelle Warner

Many businesses come to us with beautifully designed websites and they therefore struggle to understand why they are not making more money from them. In many cases it is down to a lack of website traffic and therefore a bigger marketing budget may need to be allocated, but what if the volume of website visitors are there but you still feel that it could do so much better? Well you are probably right; there are always ways that you can improve a website’s sales performance and this article explores some ways to do just that.