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ChatGPT and Me, what the AI can tell me about myself that I might not know?
In one of my WordPress groups, someone posted about asking ChatGPT what was one thing you could tell me about myself that I probably don’t know. This is a fascinating exercise and will be valuable if you’ve used ChatGPT for a while. Many people within my group started asking ChatGPT […]
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Selling Your Business? Don’t Forget Your Digital Assets like your Website and Domain Name
When preparing to sell your business, it’s easy to focus on traditional aspects like financial records, physical inventory, and employee transitions. However, your online presence is also valuable in today’s digital age. And the transfer of your digital assets to a new buyer needs to be managed carefully. After working […]
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Why Your WordPress Website Might Be Slow: Common Causes and Solutions
A slow loading website is detrimental to your business and will result in a high bounce rate for your web pages. As WordPress can do a lot – and there’s a temptation to add everything to it, there’s a high chance that your site will slow down over time, especially […]
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How to use categories and tags in a WooCommerce shop
In the world of e-commerce, organising your products effectively is crucial for both user experience and search engine optimisation (SEO). It will make it easier for your customers to find the product they wish to purchase by allowing them to filter products based on categories or tags. WooCommerce, one of […]
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Enhance Your WordPress Site with Smarter Web Forms
When we think of web forms, the first thing that often comes to mind is the simple contact form – we see it on just about every website. You add your name, email and write some comments and it gets sent to the website owner as an email. And that’s […]
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Fake WordPress security emails warning – what you need to know
There is a dangerous phishing email circulating that targets WordPress users. It asks you to download and install a plugin to your WordPress website to protect you against what is a fake vulnerability. If you receive an email with the subject line “Immediate Action Needed: Vulnerability Found – Your website […]
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Tips for Creating a Successful Business Website Using WordPress
WordPress is by far the most popular content management system for building sites, and it’s no wonder why; it’s user-friendly, customisable, and offers a range of features that make it an ideal choice for all types of business owners. With its many thousands of plugins and themes you can do […]
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Website design work from 2021
Here are some of the website builds completed in 2021 or early 2022. This includes a mixture of WordPress and Shopify websites and WooCommerce website design and builds. Pakworld Pakworld has been a Web Matters client for several years, so this was a re-design of their previous website. Pakworld is […]
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The beginner’s guide to getting a website designed for your business
If you’ve never paid anyone to build you a website before, this blog post is for you. Over the next 13 minutes, I’ll take you through the basics of how websites get built. By the end of this post, you should have a good understanding of the website design process, what it might cost, what to expect, and what to look out for.
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Hazel Barlow Coaching website
Hazel works as a business coach and organisation development specialist across the private, public, not-for-profit sectors. She provides coaching and consulting services including organisation transition and project change. The site is online at https://hazelbarlowcoaching.co.nz
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Building your own Website using WordPress
This article is for anyone considering building their own website in WordPress. You could be self-employed or considering being your own boss, or perhaps you have a small business and you have to do all of your marketing on a tight budget. If you’re about to go into business for […]
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Video Conferencing with Zoom
Like most businesses, I’m now thinking about how to manage my work around the Covid 19 pandemic. I’m also receiving client emails asking for advice about video conferencing.
Video conferencing is the obvious way to replace face to face meetings. So I wanted to share my recommended tool – Zoom.
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