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Who do you think you’re talking to?

Website warning.

One of the first things to know about your own website is who its intended audience is. Your website should use appropriate language and tone for that audience. If your site’s aimed at 20 year old members of the general public don’t use academic language, for example.

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What do you know about your domain names?

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Your organisation should have or start a file with details for your domain name, web hosting and email hosting — just in case of emergencies.

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WordPress Instructions for clients

A handy plugin lets web developers leave instructions for clients right inside the WordPress Dashboard.

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Touch your web space

Virginia from the National Library has written about her experience using websites with her iPhone, and the kinds of things a web designer should think about. Many of them are elements of standard good design, such as separating adjacent links: Good margins around each ‘patch’ of information and the overall page: I can get my [...]

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Review your website annually

When did you create your website or last do a major overhaul? Chances are that quite a few months or even years have slipped by since the last time you really paid attention to what’s on your website. February is a good time of year to do a review of your site. Get it all [...]

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Send the right message

You’ve designed a conference programme with photos, explanations of the workshops, a registration form, extra information. What’s the best way to distribute this? [First published February 2005.] Email and web Imagine it’s your annual conference. It’s a big event with speakers and workshops, conference strands and a fundraiser dinner. You’ve designed a programme with a [...]

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