Category: General

General website stuff! How to guides, tricks and other random stuff.

  • Free Stock Photos for YOU!

    Free Stock Photos for YOU!

    Yes, you read that right – we’re giving you free stock photos! Nick’s background is in photography and he still does the odd photography job, as well as retouching/post-production.  You…

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  • 5 Steps to Create A Website

    5 Steps to Create A Website

    Whether you’re going into business online, or need a site to bring traffic to your bricks-and-mortar business, it’s totally achievable with today’s technology to do it yourself. Don’t know where…

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  • Website Design Tips: What IS the purpose of your website?

    Website Design Tips: What IS the purpose of your website?

    No really, what is the purpose of your website? Is it to build an audience or earn authority?  Is it to sell a product or service like an eBook, e-course,…

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  • Do You Need a Website Makeover?

    Do You Need a Website Makeover?

    If your site is looking a bit stale and static, here’s 5 easy ideas for a website makeover Change the Images Make sure any photos of you really show your…

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  • Friday Hot Links

    Friday Hot Links

    We know that it can be a hard task to find the right images, so we thought this deal would be worth checking out GraphicStock is offering 7 days of free downloads.…

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  • MailPoet Email Newsletter in 4 Steps

    MailPoet Email Newsletter in 4 Steps

    In today’s post we have put together a visual quick guide on setting up an email newsletter with the MailPoet plugin that we use in the Creative Platoon platform.

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  • Friday Hot Links

    Friday Hot Links

    Here are some posts that we’ve come across this week that we highly recommend for you to read, or suck into Evernote for another day. Content Modelling by Chris Knowles…

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  • 10 Tips to Write Great Web Content

    10 Tips to Write Great Web Content

    Reading on the internet can be quite different than flicking through a book, so it makes sense that writing for the web is also a little different. Here’s some handy…

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  • Weekly Wrap-Up

    Here are some great posts that we think are worth reading this week, from the blogs that we follow. Writing tips to inspire you: http://www.copyblogger.com/how-cj-lyons-writes/ A quick and dirty guide…

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  • Choose the Right Images for Your Blog

    Choose the Right Images for Your Blog

    Selecting photos for blog posts may at first seem a simple exercise.  However, due to the very visual aspect of the web, image selection is a crucial part of engaging…

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  • So You Want to Start a Blog?

    So You Want to Start a Blog?

    Got an exciting new idea for a blog that you can’t stop thinking about?   Maybe you’ve got half-written blog posts in your head and on scraps of paper everywhere.…

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  • Which Social Media Tool is Best For Your Business?

    Which Social Media Tool is Best For Your Business?

    Everyone has heard of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Linked In, but what about Reddit and Instagram? What are they and does your business really need to be on them? The…

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