Blog Feed: A Website Designer

Website Starter Guide Ebook – Video 2 – Getting Ready

Published on 2011-04-19 15:39:16

Hi guys video 2 below on the website starter guide series. This one looks at ‘getting ready’. The topics are listed below the video. I babble on a bit in this one I’ll try to keep it tighter from now on! Topics covered in this video

The Website Starter Guide Free Ebook – Video 1

Published on 2011-04-15 04:23:25

Hi all, here is a little video I made to talk about the free ebook I am in the final stages of writing called ‘The website starter guide – for small business’. Enjoy.     Here are the topics of the book, feel free to comme

The Website Starter Guide Free Ebook – Video 1

Published on 2011-04-15 04:23:25

Hi all, here is a little video I made to talk about the free ebook I am in the final stages of writing called ‘The website starter guide – for small business’. Enjoy.     Here are the topics of the book, feel free to comme

WordPress self hosted or WordPress.com

Published on 2011-04-11 21:49:35

Hi all, another guest post today. This one from Joe who runs a few niche ecommerce sites and loves WordPress (don’t we all). We’ve been using WordPress a lot lately (this site runs on WordPress) and in the article below Joe talks about th

Contributing to A Website Designer

Published on 2011-04-11 21:41:04

Just a reminder that on this blog I welcome anyone who is interested in contributing. The only requirements are that the post relates to the web and provides some value for small business. Here is a list of all of the great people who have already co

What to do before you launch a website?

Published on 2011-04-11 07:51:13

As a small business, by the time you launch a website you are probably just relieved that it’s finally finished, whew!  But there are some things that you (and or your web provider) should do before the button is pressed. In this post I’

What to do before you launch a website?

Published on 2011-04-11 07:51:13

As a small business, by the time you launch a website you are probably just relieved that it’s finally finished, whew!  But there are some things that you (and or your web provider) should do before the button is pressed. In this post I’

What confuses you most about the web?

Published on 2011-04-11 06:41:44

Thanks to those who have contributed to the poll on this site about what confuses you most about the web. Two weeks ago I decided I would focus my blogging efforts on writing an eBook to help small business owners to get online and succeed online. I

What confuses you most about the web?

Published on 2011-04-11 06:41:44

Thanks to those who have contributed to the poll on this site about what confuses you most about the web. Two weeks ago I decided I would focus my blogging efforts on writing an eBook to help small business owners to get online and succeed online. I

New Site – Bikram Yoga Gold Coast

Published on 2011-04-03 21:16:05

Today we launched a site for Bikram Yoga Gold Coast. The site is built on our CMS Basic package and uses the WordPress CMS. It features a homepage slider using images with permission from Sean Scott photography, newsletter integration, image gallery

Editing images for the web for free

Published on 2011-03-24 01:19:06

Editing images is something anyone who maintains a website will have to do from time to time. These days most small businesses have a website with a CMS so this means they will be maintain their site themselves for the main part. The first thing to k

Multiple Stores with Magento

Published on 2011-03-09 23:42:02

In the last 2 months we have built 2 ecommerce websites using the Magento Commerce platform. Magento is certainly generating some interest around the place at the moment. It’s a pretty sophisticated platform considering it’s a relatively

Sole Integrity Magento Commerce site launched

Published on 2011-02-15 21:29:24

Today we launched our second Magento site this month with the go-live of soleintegrity.com.au. The site is built on the Magento Commerce platform and has a lot of extra advanced features including a homepage slider, a full online product catalogue wi

Discount Deals launches with 9.5k visits in week 1

Published on 2011-02-10 19:43:48

Last week I launched my own ecommerce site, Discount Deals and some of the results have been very encouraging. We have had almost 10,000 people to the site in 8 days. We haven’t advertised anywhere (no pay per click) and we haven’t done a

Discount Deals launches with 9.5k visits in week 1

Published on 2011-02-10 19:43:48

Last week I launched my own ecommerce site, Discount Deals and some of the results have been very encouraging. We have had almost 10,000 people to the site in 8 days. We haven’t advertised anywhere (no pay per click) and we haven’t done a

Magento Outline – What to know before logging in

Published on 2011-01-31 20:52:21

Magento is a full featured ecommerce system which comes in both a commercial and open source version. It gives website owners many tools to manage a robust store and then gives them more. Magento is one of the only ecommerce platforms that allows for

Magento Outline – What to know before logging in

Published on 2011-01-31 20:52:21

Magento is a full featured ecommerce system which comes in both a commercial and open source version. It gives website owners many tools to manage a robust store and then gives them more. Magento is one of the only ecommerce platforms that allows for

WordPress Outline – What to know before logging in

Published on 2011-01-16 23:53:17

WordPress is a content management system (CMS) that gives website owners the control to self-manage the content on their websites via an administrative back-end. WordPress is a hugely popular CMS particularly for small business owners. The WordPress

Joomla! Outline – what to know before logging in

Published on 2011-01-12 20:21:27

Joomla! is a content management system (CMS) that gives website owners the control to self-manage the content on their websites via an administrative backend. In fact it is the world’s leading CMS powering over 2.5% of the entire web! Joomla! i

Joomla! 1.6 Outline

Published on 2011-01-12 00:33:36

5 years ago when I started my web design company Web Circle, I got very excited about what content management systems could offer. For my first project I tried to build my own, learning the ASP programming language and building a simple one from scra

Getting feedback on your new website design

Published on 2011-01-11 19:54:59

Hi everyone! We have a new guest post from our newest guest author Jayson Jones. Jayson is providing some valuable resources to help with keeping new designs creative and current. It’s easy to get stuck in a rut, especially when you hold a c

New site – Poolhurst Aviation

Published on 2010-12-21 00:16:23

We have recently launched a new site for Brisbane air charter business Poolhurst Aviation. Poolhurst operates an executive Air Charter business based out of the Brisbane airport with a custom designed 2008 Pilatus PC-12 NG. The site showcases the bus

New site – Kulu Bikinis

Published on 2010-12-15 01:20:57

We have recently launched a new site for Gold Coast based Kulu Bikinis. Each year they come out with a new range and Carl likes to update the site to reflect the ‘vibe’ of the new range. So the site includes some animation, some audio and

Brisbane web designer re-designs Amazon

Published on 2010-12-14 23:28:59

I was speaking today with Maurice from Kintek a Brisbane based web design company and he pointed me to a recent post he made on their blog. After being unhappy with the experience of purchasing a Kindle on Amazon.com, Maurice took it upon himself to

3 tips for a more effective small business website

Published on 2010-12-13 23:00:48

There are 3 things I believe are a great thing to do for most small business websites. We will be releasing some research on these things in the coming months but for now here are 3 tips for every small business website. 1. The heading – stop t

Websites: Your business’ shop window

Published on 2010-12-13 22:31:36

Hi again, another guest post today. This one from Bridie Jenner from Bridie’s Typing Services on some good tips for keeping homepages simple but effective. Thanks Bridie. We’ve all walked down a street and had our attention drawn to a shop

Intro to pay per click with Google Adwords

Published on 2010-12-13 22:12:35

Hi guys this week we welcome Robert Mirabito founder of Sydney FX for an introduction on pay per click advertising with Google Adwords. Pay-Per-Click Advertising: The Basics Of the various forms of internet marketing that are currently in use, pay

Long tail keywords

Published on 2010-12-08 22:53:56

Hi guys, Gab here following up my post from last week on keyword research with a post on long tail keywords. So once you get used to do some keyword research, the next target is to find “long tail keywords”. When you think about your busi

100 small business website design articles

Published on 2010-12-05 20:42:39

Our post count ticked over the 100 mark today (well it will as soon as I publish this). With 100 articles on small business website design topics, A Website Designer is fast becoming an authority on the topic. We would like to engage with visitors mo

New site launched – Longford and Fraser

Published on 2010-12-05 19:36:23

We recently released a new site for Longford and Fraser a 21st century leadership academy for boys aged 7-14. The following was provided by the client Melissa Anderson after the project. “This is the second website I have had designed with Web