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Managing Your Gold Coast Business Website
The first issue we need to look at is the fear of technology and there ís really no
need to be afraid of a small business website anymore.
In the old days when they were built on HTML platforms - yep, there was greater reason
to be afraid. But now we build very user friendly websites using Word Press technology.
We provide your initial training and once weíve set the website up for you, we can
actually show you how you can create your own entries on the website. You can put a
special offer up in 5 minutes.
If you know how to do Microsoft Word, there ís really no problem. It ís very, very easy to do
We hold your hand through the whole experience. Most people will be able to do it straight
off but if you need telephone support that ís available as well.
And it just becomes a 5 minute job then to update your website with new products, with
special offers, anything you want to do you can do it yourselves quite easily but we wíll
hold your hand for you anyway.
Testimonial from Small Business Website Client Keith Erskine
Today, I am going to show you how easy it is for you to update your Word Press website.
What I have done here, I have brought up a particular blog that I own, it ís called MotorcycleDiary.org.
Itís a website that was built for me by Terry.
Here we are at the login page. I am going to click login obviously so we can get into
the website. I am going to show you how easy it is to do a post. Now this looks a little
bit imposing but it really is not all that overwhelming.
This is what they call the dashboard that you see when you login to a Word Press website.
This is only needed if you decide to change the content of your site. People who want
to view your site do not have to go through this process.
So what we wíll do is, up in the left hand corner here we see posts. We wíll click on that and
here are some previous posts that I have put onto the website. Now, Adding New. So it has come
up with the Add New Posts screen. It ís fairly simple here.
Down on the right hand side here you can see the categories. They are the categories that
Terry spoke about a few minutes ago.
So I am going to click Motorcycle Safari Preparation because we have not yet left on the motorcycle
trip to South Africa.
This blog is about a forthcoming motorcycle trip I am doing through South Africa into
Swaziland, Lesotho, Botswana and Namibia. So I have chosen a category, so I have not
gone and itís perfect that I choose Motorcycle Safari Preparation.
Iím going to have some tags. They help also with search engines to find content on my
website if someone types in some keywords. This is what the search engine will
have to work with.
So I am going to call it motorcycle tour. I have already got that there. Motorcycle Safari
Cape Town, Garden Route and that will do me I think for this particular example.
So I have got some tags in there.
Now I am going to add in a title. I will call it Motorcycle Safari Stage III, Cape Town,
Garden Route, Pretoria. And you wíll notice that what I have done is I have actually put
some of the key words in the title.
We have got some tags and we have got some categories. And as Terry also spoke to you about it ís 0:05:10.330,0:05:17.330 also about having those keywords in there but not being so overwhelming that you put
them everywhere so the Google robot comes to the unfortunate conclusion that you are
keyword spamming.
So what you see up here, it ís starting to pop in a title and that ís all good.
What I have done is I have actually pre-prepared my post using Word Pad. You do not have to
do this. You can post directly to the blog but I do that because simply I can formulate
it, I wíll check it for spelling errors and all those sorts of things which you can do
on the website, but it ís just my way of doing it, you do not have to do it this way.
So we wíll paste that in there. There ís the text.
I am going to actually also add in an image. It has come up with basically this little dialogue
box, we can go from a URL or from the computer. Well I have got this particular image on my
computer so we wíll select files, it comes up with the dialogue box, South African Safari,
I am going to pick Southern Africa route 3, I am going to open that, and it crunches that
into a form that it likes.
So down here I can see a thumbnail of the image. I am going to put it on the right,
I am going to have it medium sized. So I wíll just click Insert into Post and it has put
it into there. I wíll move it up just a little bit so it ís sitting right down at the bottom.
Do not really want that.
So basically that ís the post done. You have got an HTML tag there. You can look at the
embedded HTML tag or code if you wish. And the next thing we
do is basically hit the publish button.
So that has been done. So we just log out, go to the website, and lo and behold the post.
Now that was not particularly difficult. I am sure you will agree. That ís all for me now.
Signing off. Thank you.