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VertuVin Wine Producers web update
Continuing our relationship with VertuVin Wine Producers, we’ve been busy working with Stephen on updating their website to freshen up the site and add further functionality. The main focus was the wines section which now includes technical descriptions downloads, clear labelling of the wines and regions as well as fancy pop-ups of the wine bottles.All useful information when selling their services to producers, wine buyers, importers and distributors. We’re continuing to work with VertuVin on a regular basis to help them create their perfect business.
Here’s what they had to say “We have just completed the next version of our B2B website, working very closely with Alan from Dare to Think. At the beginning I thought this was going to be a relatively straightforward exercise, but it has taken many different and unexpected twists and turns and I have to thank Dare to Think for their never-ending patience and excellent customer service. Thanks guys – you actually made this quite a pleasurable experience!” Stephen Cronk – Managing Director
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Website Dimensions and Designing for the Web
Ensuring your visitors can see all of of your site without having to scroll horizontally is vital and so it’s important to design your site with this in mind. Over the years there’s been a steady increase towards a higher screen resolution and now 1024×768 is a fairly standard resolution to design to. Read more…
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Secure your WordPress Blog
When anything gets big and popular there are always unscrupulous folk out there wanting to hack your site or as they put it showing you the security downfalls of the software. With that in mind you’ll need to secure your WordPress Site so they can’t get in and ruin your site. There’s a number of steps to follow, as shown here. Read more…
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Remove the WordPress Meta Tag from your Blog
Whenever you create a new WordPress Blog a Meta tag is automatically added to every page. This can be a hackers paradise as they can hunt around the web for WordPress Sites and then target them in their next attack on the web! Read more…
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Redirect your site the Search Engine Friendly way
If you have more than one domain and you’d like to point them all to the same webspace then the best way to do it is using a 301 redirect. This informs search engines that your domain has permanently moved and so will not affect where your site ranks in search results. Read more…
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Web Browsing Tips #3: Keyboard Shortcuts
Use keyboard shortcuts to speed up your browsing experience. They sometimes take a little while to get the hang of, and more importantly remember, but when you’ve learned a few then this really will help quicken your surfing time. Here’s a few to get you started but if you take a look in the menu of your chosen browser you’ll see the shortcut alongside the description – keep learning them.
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Web Browsing Tips #2: Tabbed Windows
Gone are the days when you ended up having a gazillion windows open all at once. The best way to view sites is by using tabbed windows. This then creates a new window within the current window and allow you to flick between sites rather than hunting around all those open windows. Shortcuts; Mac: Command (Apple) + T, PC: Ctrl + T.
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Web Browsing Tips #1: Find in Page
The Internet can be a very big and daunting place for all of us. It’s unknown the exact amount of web pages that exists on the World Wide Web but it’s well over a billion, so being able to find exactly what you’re after can be a tricky task. Over the coming weeks we’ll try to demystify and help you become a superb surfer. The tips will be in no particular order so keep checking back or better still subscribe to the email updates (enter your email address on the right) to receive the tips direct to your email inbox. Read more…
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Is your site LIVE? FREE website monitoring sites
You don’t want to check your website every 5 minutes to see if it’s live. That’s why there’s a number of websites that do it for you. They’ll check, at set intervals, and inform you when your site’s down. You can then get in touch with your hosting provider to see what the problem is and when your site will be back up and running. Read more…
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Launch of VertuVin website
Today saw the launch of VertuVin.com. VertuVin are a wine agency providing the valuable connection between the wine producers and the buyers, importers and distributors who bring those premium wines to our shelves.Dare to Think worked to design a develop a stylish site with added flexibility to include additional language variations at a later date. Stephen Cronk, Managing Director and Co-Founder, of VertuVin is chuffed to bits with what we’ve produced and is looking forward to marketing the site worldwide.