Website Design Resources
Website Design: You Can Do It
When business is slack, or you're just srarting a new business, you have time to spend on your Internet presence, so here is some help. When you get busy again, and you're short of time, perhaps you'll come back as a paying customer!
These resources are offered without warranty, to help improve your internet presence. If you'd like to know more, or would like to suggest additions or corrections, please get in touch.
We keep adding more Website Design Resources Pages, so please come beck from time to time.
Resources:
Website Design and Content Management
- BlueTree CMS Frequently Asked Questions
- How to start writing web pages for your business
- Most of us must display our Business Information on our websites
- What to prepare for your first BlueTree website design meeting (this is a private page for BlueTree clients only)
Tutorials, Procedures, and Case Studies
- How to Improve Web Page Load Speed. - explanation, how we optimised our home page
- How to make your user-friendly sitemap - example (ours) and procedure
- How to prepare images for uploading to your website - procedure
- How to get onto Google page 1 - case study
- Who owns your domain name, and what to do about it if you don't - explanation and procedure
- How to clean up your website after a malware Infection - explanation with procedure
- How to edit your XML sitemap with Adobe Contribute
- How to print Google AdWords invoices
BlueTree CMS "How-To" Movies
A growing set of movies that show how simple a Content Management System can be for inexperienced users.
- How to sign in to BlueTree CMS admin
- How To Create a new page with BlueTree CMS
- How to edit a page with BlueTree CMS - an overview.
- How to upload a document with BlueTree CMS's Document Manager
Tools
Some on-line tools to help build your web pages and make them attractive to search engines (more to follow...). You can read about these tools but you'll need to join the BlueTree CMS Club to use them.
- Title tag and meta description authoring tool
- Google AdWords authoring tool (clients only)
Your Business on the Internet
- How to find out if your business is on the Internet
- How to help Google recognise your business on the Internet
- How to handle on-line business directories (coming soon-ish).
- How (and why) to get your business on Apple Maps
- What to do if your Webmaster resigns
- What to do if your email account is hacked
- Managing your email auto responders
Instructions for older control panel version - Roundcube - create a folder
- Roundcube - move an email
Local Bristol Stuff
- Sorry, we've removed the 2012 BlueTree Portishead Christmas Quiz
General Internet Stuff
- Website design and usability blog
- Glossary of website terms
- We're not the same BlueTree that supports the Conservatives Association's websites, but here's how to contact your website support team
Related links :
Website Design and Development Resources
Not a BlueTree CMS User?
- Questions to ask your website host before you sign up.
- Stop paying someone else to update your website.
Our Clients Say,
Software Distributor, New Website
“We are extremely pleased with our new website and have received nothing but complimentary feedback from our customers and prospects. BlueTree provided great attention to detail throughout the process, starting with our initial design discussions, right through to the finished article. With BlueTree, we felt we received an excellent balance of technical skill and design flair, resulting in a website which is professional, clear and simple to use, yet visually very clean and engaging.”
David Fisk, Director,
Salus Software Ltd
