Tech & Help Articles

Below are some helpful posts on tech and web topics

MYIT - What Website Maintenance Do I Need?

Whether you have a simple or complicated website, you require a program of ongoing website maintenance to keep your website secure, up to date and engaging for your website visitors. Websites aren’t like a promotional flyer where you print it, distribute it and forget about it. ...

MYIT - 10 Common Website Design Mistakes

Starting your own website business is probably the easiest way to start own business venture. Nevertheless, no matter how straight forward the path may seem, the reality is a far cry from simple when you're talking about a profitable business with a number of staff and hundreds or thousands of customers. ...

MYIT - How to Maintain Your Website After It Goes Live

Maintaining your website is very important for any business or organisation as it puts you ahead of the competition and ensures that the site is in sync with the business, it's product and services and the changing trends in the market....

MYIT - How To Choose The Right Web Designer For Your Project

Choosing the right website designer is crucial to the success of any web development project. One must check out their skill level, design expertise, project management skills and get a sense of what it would be like to work with them during the website build and for years after as you return to them to add new features to your website as required....

MYIT - How To Get Your Website Noticed

Increasing the visibility of a website involves creating a good online product in the eyes of your target market and making sure it is SEO friendly and Mobile Responsive. Social Media channels are a great way to leverage your website promotion efforts and get more target market visitors onto your site....

MYIT - A Mobile Website Was An Option - Now It's Essential

You served a customer well and then pin your hopes on his or her feedback, hoping to get more business from them or from their friends and family. Since the customer had fewer opportunities to share their opinion, expecting quick results in the form of more business was unrealistic....

MYIT - 6 Tips On Keeping Your Website Up To Date

The online face of your organisation is your website. It might be relatively easy to create a website with the help of a good web design company but maintaining a successful website is something that needs to be worked on continuously and will take some planning....

MYIT - 7 Types Of Content On Your Website

Website design could be compared to cooking a fancy meal, with the website designer acting as the master chef. Just as a well cooked meal requires ingredients and presentation to become enticing, a good web designer uses his presentation skills to make the web page inviting....

MYIT - How To Get More Website Visitors - The Google Friendly Way

So, you have a good website and web design for your website or you have just launched a new website for your business and now you're eager to generate more sales leads. ...

MYIT - Your Website Photos - The Essentials

You may often hear your web designer say: "A picture paints a thousand words" - well it does and they can make or break your website. The logic behind the saying comes from sound research about human behavior, and how we react to a particular web design based on the photos that are chosen for each page....

MYIT - Linking Your Website And Social Media Accounts

Before internet-savvy customers even think about buying a product or service they go online to look for suppliers. The quality of a provider's website design, the type of content provided and the ease with which they can access the content and information are the three main factors that entice them to dig deeper and perhaps make a purchase....

MYIT - Four Online Tips To More Sales

If you want a better listing on the SEO/Free-listing (non-adwords) part of google you need some good in-links into your website from external, related websites e.g. industry associations that you are part of, bodies that govern your industry, suppliers that provide you with goods/services, clients that you are on good terms with etc. ...

MYIT - Website Content Planning

You need to plan your website pages and sections i.e. make a list of the pages and sections that you want on your website - then plan the material you want on each page. You can go through this with your web design company....

MYIT - Website Shop Essentials

Any product or service that can be sold can be sold through an ecommerce site, either exclusively or on top of a real, physical shop. This is why so many businesses are going online....

MYIT - The 13 Basics Of A Good Website

For any business the decision to go online is a major one. If done expertly it will transform your company virtually overnight as your product or service will be made available to vast numbers of potential customers and trading won’t be restricted by time and place. ...

MYIT - Do I Need A Mobile Website?

The future of the web lies with mobile devices such as smart phones and iPads. Now is the time for your business to go mobile as that future rapidly becomes the present....

MYIT - Keeping Web Content Fresh

Refreshing and renewing the content on your website is no longer the expensive, laborious process it used to be. This frees you up to do the natural thing and keep your content fresh: nobody likes to hang around, shop at or revisit a stale website. ...

MYIT - Google Adwords Account Basics

Adwords Marketing is done through placement of text ads which display once people search for search-phrases (keyphrases/keywords) that are related to the products or services you provide....

MYIT - Lowering Your Website Design Costs

A user friendly and well-designed website can go a long way in engaging with your new and old customers, offer an effective communication channel with the decision makers as well as raise money from sales. ...

MYIT - How To Improve My Website Content

Creating website content is an art as well as a science. Inexperienced web design companies will often create great-looking websites but not plan the content, or substitute content for 'website gadgets'. ...