How to create self-hosted video on your website
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Build your Website in WordPress in 1 Day – Chester 3rd December 2015
Yes in one day you will walk away with a full functional minimum 3 page website built on the WordPress platform with 100% responsive design for mobile, tablet or desktop viewing, together with all the information you need to keep growing and improving your website going forward.
This unique course from Webmedia in Chester starts by giving you your own WordPress website with exclusive login, ready for you to start adapting with your own branding, colour palette, layout and images.
Content areas covered:
Finding your way around the WordPress admin area
Editing and creating pages
Widgets and Plugins
Blog posts
Menus
Security and SEO
We use an easy ‘drag & drop’ page editor which makes building and changing your pages childsplay.
What people say about this course
Ruth Hirst
“I really enjoyed the course, thank you”
Gill Dent, Tabley House
“Hi David I attended your Build your own Website course on Thursday the 5th February, which I have to say was excellent, and extremely useful”
Susie Trow
“Just a quick email to say I really enjoyed the course even if my brain was a little fried by the end of it!”
Heather Artell
“I enjoyed the course and thought the pace was good considering the amount of information you needed to relay”
Your minimum outcome for the day will be a 3 page website built using the latest design theme.
On the day you will need to bring a laptop which can connect to our wireless internet connection
You can see an example of the type of site you will build here http://www.savethefamily.org.uk
SUPPORT
Learning is supported by presentation slide tutorials for every delegate, access to our library of video tutorials on all aspects covered in the course and post training email support.
Price
£95 per person – No VAT. Limited places available
If you have any questions feel free to email David on contact@davidtaylorwebmedia.com or call 0791 341 8215
Find out more about Webmedia at https://www.davidtaylorwebmedia.com/
How to do a quick SEO audit of your website in 2015
SEO for Google in 2015 – Free Workshop – Chester
Register here https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/seo-for-google-in-2015-free-workshop-chester-tickets-18115251204
In this FREE workshop event on 23 September 2015, David Taylor from Webmedia will share his insights into how ranking on Google’s local and organic search results has changed in the last two years and what tactics Webmedia employs to rank their clients on the market leading search engine.
The event is 2 hours and includes subjects including content authority, citations, social signals and keyword selection.
Places are limited so early booking is recommended. The venue will be a Chester hotel with on site parking near the motorway network
SEO in 2015 – Building your authority with Google
Google’s Page Speed Tool – and why you should use it. When it comes to issues that affect search ranking, Google often keeps its cards close to its chest but sometimes it gives a strong hint about issues that it considers to be important. Recently it make a big play about mobile friendly websites and now comes the issue of page load time.
‘Page Speed Insights’ is a free tool from Google that measures the page load time of any web page and also recommends ways it can be improved.
To see the tool in action watch our short video here https://youtu.be/hNNw2SYo-5Y
Build your Website in WordPress in 1 Day
Yes in one day you will walk away with a full functional minimum 3 page website built on the WordPress platform with 100% responsive design for mobile, tablet or desktop viewing, together with all the information you need to keep growing and improving your website going forward.
This unique course from Webmedia in Chester starts by giving you your own WordPress website with exclusive login, ready for you to start adapting with your own branding, colour palette, layout and images.
Content areas covered:
Finding your way around the WordPress admin area
Editing and creating pages
Widgets and Plugins
Blog posts
Menus
Security and SEO
We use an easy ‘drag & drop’ page editor which makes building and changing your pages childsplay.
What people say about this course
Gill Dent, Tabley House
“Hi David I attended your Build your own Website course on Thursday the 5th February, which I have to say was excellent, and extremely useful”
Susie Trow
“Just a quick email to say I really enjoyed the course even if my brain was a little fried by the end of it!”
Heather Artell
“I enjoyed the course and thought the pace was good considering the amount of information you needed to relay”
Your minimum outcome for the day will be a 3 page website built using the latest design theme.
On the day you will need to bring a laptop which can connect to our wireless internet connection
You can see an example of the type of site you will build here http://www.savethefamily.org.uk
SUPPORT
Learning is supported by presentation slide tutorials for every delegate, access to our library of video tutorials on all aspects covered in the course and post training email support.
Price
£95 per person – No VAT. Limited places available
Book here http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/build-your-website-in-wordpress-in-1-day-chester-tickets-17827652990?aff=es2
How to set up your desktop PC for Google Voice Search
What are the BIG trends in web design this year? Overall we feel this can be summed up by the phrase ‘less is more’. The trend setter brands are certainly stripping out lots of text from their websites and leading much more on big bold images or video.
This can be coupled with the rise in popularity of the website Pinterest where people ‘pin’ images that they want to share with others. This move to a more visual web plays on the fact that consumers interpret most of what they like through their eyes. Hence the more visually appealing you can make your product or service, the more likely you are to get customer engagement.
Indeed video and especially video headers are very much on a growth curve. Sites like Gestaltns.com are using a video slider on their home page to provide web visitors with an engaging and immediate insight into their film making skills. In fact any business can benefit from video headers that show quickly what the business is all about, in an interesting consumable manner.
21st April Google’s deadline for mobile sites
Search giant Google is currently working on a major algorithm change that will revolutionize the way mobile friendliness is determined. Starting on April 21, this new algorithm will be rolled out worldwide, affecting mobile searches in all languages in all corners of the globe.
Zineb Ait Bahajji, a member of Google’s Webmaster Trends team, was quoted recently as saying that the new mobile-friendly algorithm change will have more of an impact on search rankings than either Panda or Penguin, two of the largest and most impactful search algorithm updates Google has ever launched.
What you need to do
Ensure the mobile version of your site is active and functional. Responsive designs are the most popular, but you can also have a separate hosted mobile version of your site. Google doesn’t have a preference, as long as mobile users’ experience isn’t interrupted.
Ensure Google’s mobile bots can crawl your site. If Google can’t see it, it may as well not even be there.
Check each individual page of your site on a mobile device to ensure navigability. Just because your home page is mobile friendly doesn’t mean the rest of your site is.
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