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Check your contact forms

Some time ago I mentioned that my preferred form manager of choice had been withdrawn from the WordPress plugin library. This plugin was called FS Contact Form. At the time I had not found a suitable replacement that did everything that the FS Contact Form manager did. I have resolved that now. If you have it in your installation you can check in the plugins page, or check under Settings. If you can see FS Contact Form you have it on your website. If you can see Contact Manager in your plugins list that is even older. Also should be replaced.

There has been one instance where the FS Contact Manager plugin had stopped working. I am not sure why, it could have been related to another plugin conflicting with it. I want to encourage all of you to test your forms once per month by sending a message to yourself. That way you can be sure it is working. Continue reading Check your contact forms

Low cost site upgrades are still available

Offer Expires in 30 days.

It is the season of goodwill, and I am providing site upgrades to Home-Start and NACCC child contact sites for the next 30 days at a very low cost, so please be quick if you are thinking about this.

To qualify, your site needs to already be in my hosting. If it is based on the original Home-start Lite or Child Contact Centre Lite sites comprising 13 pages the cost is £120. If there are some additional customisations in your site with additional pages then the costs are slightly higher. 14-18 pages £160, 19-23 pages £200.

This is particularly important to users of sites that are not mobile friendly. Google can reduce your rating in searches if you are not considered to be a mobile friendly site. Continue reading Low cost site upgrades are still available

New “off the shelf” template for Child Contact Centres (NACCC groups)

I continue to be impressed by the Elegant Themes Divi template which has made many sites that use it a lot more interesting to use, and they all look very professional. Many commercial web development agencies are now basing sites on Divi, I am seeing it all of the time.

I am developing a new “off the shelf” package for NACCC groups that run Child Contact Centres throughout the UK. Continue reading New “off the shelf” template for Child Contact Centres (NACCC groups)

Mailpoet is changing

For those of you that use the plugin MailPoet which is used to generate newsletters it will be going through some major changes in September with a new release at version 3.

The current Mailpoet plugin which is at version 2.x will not go through any further updates after September.

What does this mean for me?

Continue reading Mailpoet is changing

New Home-Start Lite Design

Click on the image to open up a full screen version in a new browser window.

A new design for Home-Start sites is available in the “Lite” off the shelf versions that I make available to new clients. This offers a website in a box. I take the content and localise it for any Home-Start organisation.

The new design is based on Divi. I have built quite a few Divi sites now and am getting quicker, and learning short cuts which can radically reduce development time. Continue reading New Home-Start Lite Design

Group Calendar

I have been asked on a number of occasions is it possible to have a group or office shared calendar. The problem is generally those people who are used to using Outlook in a business context have used an Exchange Server which managed all of the calendaring functions for you. In a charity situation, particularly a small regional one, it is not very likely that your charity uses a Microsoft Exchange server. The calendar management needs to be handled at a central point such as a server.

I received a request about a group calendar a few days ago and did some digging and have come up with a solution. So if you are interested in having an office calendaring system that is online, that your volunteers and office staff can log into then this may be for you. Continue reading Group Calendar

Divi Layout Builder

I have talked about the Divi Template several times and I use this regularly now for my premium sites. The layout tool that is used in the Divi Template is also available as a stand alone plugin.

It is a bit more complicated to use than the standard editor, however it offers endless possibilities. Take a look at the site below (the actual site is under development so likely to change before it is public). You can temporarily see the development version here: http://wingrove-staging.uk/hhccc/

Continue reading Divi Layout Builder

I just don’t have the time

I wanted to highlight that in a couple of cases I am editing websites on behalf of their owners. This was not my original goal, which was to help every one to be independent of their developer. Which is the primary reason I built this site!

However I recognise if you only need a few changes a year, then keeping up to date with everything may be a problem. The situation you need to avoid at all costs is procrastination. Keep your site up to date and keep it fresh in Google.

I need help!

If you don’t have the time to update your site, but you have material you want added to your site, I can do this for you. There will be a small charge for this service which starts at £5/ 15 minutes or £20/hr. I can get quite a lot done in 15 minutes so provided you have everything ready, I can add things to your site if you wish.

Contact me to find out more. Generally I recommend packaging everything up that needs editing/ changing/ adding and sending it to me with explicit instructions on what you want the end result to look like. I will let you know how long it will take to make the edits, you then need to authorise me to go ahead.

Offer Expires in 30 days.

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