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Shopping carts and e-commerce

If you’ve got a product or service that you would like to sell online but feel unsure of the options or technicalities to get an online shopping cart up and running on your website, then we can help you. We can include simple shopping carts on your website, or even develop full e-commerce functionality included [...]

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Absolute Basics of Search Engine Optimisation

Search Engine Optimisation or SEO has become the generally used name for all things to do with trying to help get a website better ranked in search engines like Google, and is one of the most frequently asked questions by potential clients looking for help for an existing website. To be honest there are not [...]

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More WordPress plugins… mobile devices, SEO and much more

Following on from the last ‘slideshows’ post, one of the big advantages of having a WordPress built website is that it gives you access to use many already built plugins available for download to add enhancements and features to your website. So I’ve been testing various ones that I’ve thought could be useful to my [...]

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WordPress Slideshows and Lightboxes

One of the big advantages of having built a WordPress website is that it gives you access to use one or more of the many already built plugins available for download to add enhancements and features to your website. A common ‘portfolio’ type presentation is the slideshow, and there are lots of possbile slideshows to [...]

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What to look out for when choosing a web host

While Web Design Garage is not a web hosting company, we do design and build websites using a range of technologies. The actual service of hosting the website 24 hours a day throughout the year we leave to specialised companies. That said finding the right hosting company is not an obvious choice even for the [...]

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Keeping in touch with your clients

We can help you keep in touch with your clients by helping you choose a professional email marketing service. We’re using MailChimp which has a great FREE email marketing service including upto 12000 emails per month. Whether you use MailChimp or other professional services like Constant Contact, iContact or Boomerang you may require a professionally [...]

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Web design email newsletter

We’ve put together our email newsletter professionally designed to keep our clients informed and up-to-date with some of the possibilites available that we can offer – from enhanced features for their websites to discounts and new options on web re-design and builds. If you’d like to know more about our services sign up follow this [...]

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Re-designed – a new WordPress site for Web Design Garage

Here it is, our new website, re-designed, and re-built with WordPress. So out with the old esoteric feel, and in with the new look and straight-foward looking site, showing what we do best, clean and simple well designed and laid out web sites for our customers. A good question to ask would be why use [...]

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