Our Website Blog
Stay ahead of the curve with the latest insights from Duelling Pixels’ blog. We share valuable tips, industry trends, and best practices in web design, ecommerce, and digital marketing to help you keep your business at the forefront of innovation.
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Some AI Bots Train on You. Others Bring You Customers.
Last week we checked our website’s robots.txt file properly for the first time in a couple of weeks. To our surprise, it was telling the major AI crawlers not to read our site. We never wrote this rule. Investigating further, we found a setting in Cloudflare rewrites your robots.txt for you, and we had switched…
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Our Stock Photos are back!!
After rebuilding our stock image library for the past two months, we are very excited to announce that our stock images are back. Hosting a free stock image library was fun and a great way to attract a new audience. Although we got many requests about using our images commercially in printed medium, that was…
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Adding charactor to your Author Page
The default author page template within WordPress lists an author’s latest posts in a chronological list. We can use this page to build a awesome about page for your blog/website that displays information about yourself followed by your latest blog posts. Using a child theme on the genesis framework the post will run through adjusting the…
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Minimal Sidebar – Our first free Genesis theme
We are very excited to announce the Minimal Sidebar, the first of a series of free Genesis themes that we will be launching this year. Designed after Nick set himself the task last year of finding a better way to bring responsive behaviour to the individual widget areas in the sidebar. Minimal Sidebar breaks up…
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Blogging? Are you making these mistakes too?
1. Not blogging at all! (Whether you think you are above blogging, or you think it’s not your thing, or you can’t write.) Well, say you are going to a business conference this weekend, would you go there and not say anything at all? What if a conference participant (who could also be a potential…
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Goodbye Creative Platoon, hello Duelling Pixels
After months of going to and fro in my mind, I have conceded that by branding all of my ideas under their own individual names, I was making our lives very complicated! Managing several web brands is hard work, there is the blogging, management of the websites and platform software, the communication to users, and…
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4 Steps for a Successful Website Project – #4 Basic Tech Elements
Basic Technical Elements Now that you’ve gone through the key planning processes, you should have a clearer idea of what your needs are. Next step is to decide on the technical nuts and bolts. DOMAIN NAME Got your business domain name purchased? Don’t leave this one until the last minute, in case someone beats you…
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#3 Design & Functionality – Successful Website Project
Website Design & Functionality Website design & functionality go together like a jigsaw puzzle. Ultimately a really successful website works when the pieces fit together like they were made for each other. To establish what pieces you’ll need to build your website, you do need to work out a few things upfront: Decide on the…
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#2 Branding & Visual Elements – Successful Website Project
Branding & Visual Elements Branding and visual elements are not just pretty things to brighten up your website, they convey a message to your audience, and most importantly – it’s what the unconscious mind of your audience connects with. Your branding is made up of a number of elements including your business name, your logo,…
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#1 Content & Copy – Successful Website Project
Content & Copy MAKE A PLAN Whether you’re going to outsource this task or do it yourself, start with an outline or draw a mind map of all the sections required, as well as how they link together: About Page Home Page Every individual Product/Service Page/s Testimonials/Portfolio Page Specific sales pages Blog posts Contact You…
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New Series – 4 Steps for a Successful Website Project
Does planning your website make you feel like your head’s going to explode? Just don’t know where to start? If you’re going around in circles trying to work out what you need for your new website, and getting confused about the many pieces of the website puzzle, tune in over the next 4 weeks…