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Challenges abound in the website creation process, and those challenges don’t end when you pick a custom web design and development agency to get the project underway The next big challenge is to engage in a creatively productive process with your design and development team, so that the end product is a website you can…

Let’s face it. The challenge of creating your first business website can seem like an insurmountable obstacle when you don’t even know what you don’t know.  How do you find a great web design company? Where do you look? Come to think of it, is a web design company even your best bet?  Many so-called…

Most businesses hire a web designer when their site looks dated, and a developer when something breaks. But there’s a third hire, one that far fewer businesses think to make, and it’s often the one that changes everything. A website strategist is the person who decides what your website should actually do before anyone touches…

Most web projects that go over budget, miss deadlines, or deliver the wrong thing share one problem: they started without a proper brief. A design brief isn’t just paperwork. It’s the conversation that stops you from building a beautiful website that solves the wrong problem. It’s what prevents the “I thought you were building X”…

Ten years ago, building a website meant either hiring expensive developers or learning HTML, CSS, plus JavaScript yourself. Today, a bakery owner in Surry Hills can launch a professional website in an afternoon, complete with online ordering and Instagram integration. The tool making this possible? WordPress. ​From NASA’s official website to TechCrunch’s massive publication platform,…

By the Keen To Design Development Team – WordPress specialists with 10+ years experience managing PHP updates for Australian businesses Your WordPress site’s running PHP 7.2 and you just got that dreaded admin notice. WordPress wants PHP 8.0 minimum these days, and honestly, they’re right. PHP 7.2 stopped getting security updates back in November 2020….

WordPress powers 43% of all websites on the internet, yet plenty of people still get stuck on the basics. If you’re staring at your WordPress dashboard wondering where to click first, you’re not alone. We’ve helped dozens of clients navigate their first blog uploads, and the process trips up even tech-savvy professionals. Video Tutorial: WordPress…

With Google holding 93.37% of Australia’s search market share and over 40% of product searches now showing Google Shopping results, connecting WooCommerce to Google Merchant Center has become essential for online retailers. This integration puts your products directly in front of millions of active shoppers, and takes less than 30 minutes to complete. Key Takeaways…

Your WordPress dashboard shows the same update notifications from three weeks ago. Plugins stuck on old versions, themes begging for updates, and WordPress core sitting there unchanged despite having auto-updates enabled. Auto-updates break more often than most site owners realise. The problem? They fail silently with no error messages, no alerts, just security patches that…

Choosing the right platform is one of the most important decisions you’ll make when building a website. It affects three critical things: who owns your content, what you’ll spend, and whether your site can grow with your business. While both WordPress and Squarespace make it easy to launch a website, they operate on fundamentally different…

Are you a WooCommerce store owner dealing with an endless stream of failed orders? You’re not alone. What looks like a payment processing issue is often a sophisticated bot attack or “carding attack” where bad actors use stolen credit card data to test fraud schemes on your site. These automated attacks have become one of…

What you ask can save you thousands and a whole lot of regret. Hiring a web designer isn’t like ordering lunch. It’s more like choosing a tattoo artist: you’ll be living with the outcome for years, and fixing mistakes is costly. In Sydney’s crowded design scene, where freelancers, boutique studios, and large agencies all compete…

When someone breaks into a WordPress site, the blame tends to land on WordPress CMS itself. The truth is a little messier. With WordPress powering more than 43% of the web, it’s easy to see why it’s a popular target. The same flexibility that allows you to spin up everything from a food blog to…

Nowadays, running a successful online store requires automating many tasks, including the automatic printing of order receipts, invoices, and shipping labels. Although printing may seem like a trivial task of low importance, it can often become a source of stress and issues for a store manager. Choosing the right printer model and adjusting its settings…

WordPress banners serve many purposes, from directing users to special offers to capturing attention with large text and graphics. Even though banners are often helpful, they can sometimes interfere with user experience or the site’s design. Turning them off is thus an action taken by webmasters who want a more minimalist, clean look of their…

A common issue on most WordPress websites, often flagged by Google PageSpeed Insights, is ‘Reduce and remove unused CSS files from stylesheets and defer CSS not used for above-the-fold content to decrease bytes consumed by network activity.‘ Unused CSS refers to CSS (styling code) within your WordPress theme or plugins that isn’t actively used on…

In cPanel, you cannot import databases larger than 50MB directly through the phpMyAdmin interface. To import larger databases, you have two options: using the terminal or submitting a ticket to your hosting provider. Exporting large mysql database cPanel provides a convenient method for exporting your databases. Unlike importing, there are no size restrictions for exporting…

The rates charged by WordPress developers vary significantly and are influenced by numerous factors, such as experience level, project complexity, and location. Despite this, it is natural to wonder how much a WordPress developer should be paid to build a project. This article sheds light on how to hire WordPress developers, which factors influence the…

If you are a regular user, you probably need to duplicate a page in WordPress at some point. Surprisingly, while you can perform many complicated tasks in your WordPress dashboard, there is no default button to duplicate a page or a post. It would be a time-saving option for some webmasters. This article is all you need if you want to…

Javascript is a programming language used to develop dynamic website. We use JavaScript to add interactivity to our website design. With Javascript, we can perform tasks like: These are some of the tasks we can perform using Javascript, and there are many more. Let’s learn how to link JavaScript to your HTML. Including Javascript in…

Introduction Understanding CSS CSS stands for (Cascading Style Sheets) and controls the visual presentation of your website’s content. Dipping your toes into CSS to styling and editing your HTML elements may feel hard, and yes, it is if you are starting to code, but it opens up possibilities for tweaking your site’s aesthetics the way…

As an online entrepreneur, webmaster, content creator, or small business owner, you must be familiar with the term “sales funnel.” If it’s not, you need to learn about it immediately. Although it sounds technical, you can build a sales funnel using WordPress in around ten hours, even as a newbie. Essentially, a sales funnel describes…

Creating website templates and earning through them is an enjoyable thing to do. But designing and developing perfect website templates that sell can be challenging and tough. However, if you take the proper steps and stick to them, it gradually becomes an everyday thing.  If you follow the right strategies, you can create website templates…

The script evaluation time indicates the time needed to load, parse and execute JavaScript files. JavaScript runs on the main thread, and the problem is when this script evaluation time blocks the main thread, resulting in a load time increase with a bad user experience and page performance. If the JavaScript fails to load and…

Per the data released by survey 2021 of Stackoverflow, HTML, CSS and JavaScript are the most popular languages used worldwide. These three languages are the backbone of the web development; Without these languages, we can not imagine web development. See the diagram below. Let’s start with each language and learn some basics about them. HTML 🌎 HTML…

This article gets you started with HTML tables, covering the very basics such as spacing, padding, and then six methods to make space between rows. In web design, tables play a crucial role in organising data systematically.. They can represent data in rows and columns. Each row and column contain cells to store the data….

You are wasting precious time if you don’t use the WordPress toolkit! It doesn’t work miracles, but it helps you spend significantly less time on website management. Thanks to its easy-to-use interface, even less-trained webmasters can confidently use the WordPress toolkit. Many hosting platforms, like VentraIP, recommend the WordPress toolkit and offer concise tutorials showing users how…

WordPress is a one-size-fits-all content management system (CMS) that dominates its contenders by a large margin. It started as a simple blogging platform, but later became a behemoth used by billions of users in no more than two decades. Love or hate it, WordPress streamlined the growth of small and mid-size online businesses. The platform…

As a web design agency, it’s always top of mind to consider what’s trending throughout the industry. That’s not only for our projects, but also our personal brand. One very important aspect of that brand? Our work portfolio! With that in mind, we have put together a list of some of the best web design…

You do not have to understand the ins and out of search engine optimisation to make it work for your company. What you should understand, however, is that some SEO practices can make or break the traffic to your website as well as your site’s relationship with top search engines. Without quality SEO, you may…

As of April 2024, 40% of all websites run on WordPress. It dominates the content management system (CMS) market by a large margin. 64.3% of all websites based on a CMS runs on WordPress, while the second CMS is Shopify with a 5.3% market share.  Surprisingly or not, as of April 2024, 37.8% of all…

Building a website was once a difficult and time-consuming task. It required extensive knowledge of languages like CSS, HTML, and Javascript, and it often required the use of expensive software and platforms. In the last decade or so, however, website building has become easier and more accessible. This is due in large part to the various…

Are you ready to move your content from your old website to a brand spanking new one? Content migration is a common process in web design. And the truth is, if you don’t do it right, you could end up ruining all your hard work in an instant and have to start all over again,…

Have you ever heard the terms user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) and wondered if they mean the same thing? In web design, these terms are often used interchangeably. However, they mean very different things. The way your site visitors perceive your website and engage with your site’s content is crucial to your overall…

If you’re not writing website content, you’re seriously behind. Many businesses and bloggers all around the world are producing content daily. Content, such as articles and blogs, not only improve your SEO results and boost website traffic but engage your audience. But what if you’re not the best writer? You can hire or outsource a professional…

Building a business website for your company is an increasingly complex project. At the most foundational level you’ll need four things:  That all seems simple enough, and yet the process is fraught with complexity, exacerbated by an overwhelming number of choices you’ll need to make along the way.  Keen to Design would like to demystify…

Australian shoppers are looking for their favorite online products more than ever these days. In 2017, 4.6 million Australians shopped Amazon, and an impressive 6.7 million Australians visited Woolworths. Adding to that, by 2022, retail eCommerce sales in Australia are expected to top the $16 billion mark. So, to say that now is a good…

If you’ve decided to become a website developer, I have great news for you: you can jump in and start right away! Though there are more traditional ways of getting an education, and you can technically get a degree in website development (or something similar), the truth is, you don’t have to waste your time…

The first big choice for most brands and entrepreneurs who need a new business website created and published is a big one: freelancer or agency? There are pros and cons to each choice, and different ways to approach the website design experience as a client to ensure you get the best results. The biggest considerations…

The way you design your website is important to your overall success. But more than that, your success relies on how well your website ranks in search results. After all, if people can’t find your website when they run a Google search, they’ll never know you exist and your traffic numbers will suffer. Using the…

They say every business needs a website. And in today’s digital world, this statement couldn’t be any truer. The way people seek out the companies they want to do business with has changed drastically over the years. And want it or not, consumers look online for businesses first before ever making a decision. And yet,…

Establishing a budget for the design of your business website and sticking to it aren’t easy tasks to accomplish these days. From hidden fees to scope creep and just a plain old lack of communication, it’s still possible to run head-first into a bad case of sticker shock if you’re not careful.  As the old…

96.2 percent of people admit that they place the most importance on visual factors when purchasing products. Not to mention, brand recognition improves by as much as 80% when the right color palettes are used. So what does this mean for your online business? It means that you should prioritize the color schemes you use…

A great website is an investment in your business and most likely a substantial one. The fee for that fresh new site can range from several hundred to several thousand dollars, depending on what you need and specific technologies or functions that need to be addressed.  But hiring the right designer for your needs can…

On the surface, you might think that creating a one-page website would be easier than creating a multi-page one. But the truth is, designing a one-page site is actually harder than it looks. After all, you only have so much retail space on your site to adequately inform site visitors about your brand and convince…

There’s no denying that WordPress and WooCommerce make a powerful combination. After all, they are both the most widely used platforms of their kind. Not to mention, they’re both affordable, flexible, and highly versatile solutions for anyone looking to launch an online shop. And when it comes to ease of use – both WordPress and…

Want to build a better website? You can find lots of resources on the web with tons of great advice for that, including long lists of resources, design principles, and plenty of examples of best-in-class web design. Sometimes, however, we think it’s easier to look at what not to do.  So let’s come at the…

Most designers and developers know all too well the challenge of creating a visually compelling, inviting and user-engaging website. We tend to eagerly accept useful tools and guiding principles wherever we find them.  Design trends come and go, but design principles are timeless. One of the most timeless design principles in the history of visual…

Making sure your customers can navigate your website with ease is crucial to your sales goals. In fact, you risk losing out on 50% of potential sales when site visitors can’t find what they’re looking for on your site. Not to mention, a good user experience is something people remember. The better the experience people…

It’s easy to launch an online store these days. There’s no shortage of resources to help even the most novice of website owners, and having a small investment budget is not a problem. But what is a problem is building your online shop enough to compete with well-established brands. After all, people typically go with…