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Welcome to Campfire, here we talk about what’s happening in the world of WordPress websites and digital strategy in a clear, simple language that will make sense to busy business people such as yourselves.
We offer ad hoc WordPress support – clients come to us with all manner of website problems. We hit an issue today which everyone with a website (not just WordPress) needs to be aware of: poor quality DNS. The client…
I don’t normally do an end of year post but boy, if you were ever going to do one, this is the year! Firstly, you can’t talk about the year without being thankful for coming through it relatively unscathed, and…
With the holiday season quickly approaching, many of will be trying to watch what we eat so that we don’t need to tighten our belts come the New Year. In this article, I want to talk about how we can…
In Sue Keogh‘s second appearance on #TheWPshow she talks through some fantastic examples of how we can encourage people to take action; whether that is from fine-tuning the call to actions on our websites, or advice on how we craft…
In this photo we see (from left to right), my Aunty Pauline, Aunty Ivy, and then my grandma (Aline) on the right holding hands with my mum’s brother, Glyn. My mum is the bump in my Grandma’s belly when they…
When we are designing a website for a client, I try to always keep a sharp focus on the client’s target audience(s) – the people to whom the website needs to engage with – as that is the star we…
As part of our business, we run online events called #TheWPshow (‘The WordPress Show’). The show is aimed at non-techy businesses and website managers who want to stay current and improve their knowledge & their WordPress sites – we regularly…
In this episode of #TheWPshow I discuss email deliverability and website forms. This video talks through a lot of the points I raise in this article on website forms & email deliverability. Domain names – what do they give you?…
It’s not often then I visit a website, especially on mobile, which really turns my head. But that’s exactly what happened when I visited https://fivethirtyeight.com/. Above is the desktop view but, as I say, I first visited it on my…
On this #TheWPshow I chat to my old friend, and seasoned web developer, Steve Kirtley. We talk about the future of websites, after chatting about how the web has evolved. How we used to build websites (tables/transparent gifs etc)…
I ordered some take out food recently, I was time-pressed with the kids and ordering beforehand, ready for pick up, just made sense. The online ordering experience was really, really poor. When I first started in the web, many things…
Sadly we had some audio issues at first, so I’ve needed to edit those bits out. We jump in with Alistair starting to talk about the meaty topic of GDPR…. I managed to salvage most of the presentation and we…