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Charity Website SEO: What, Why and How to get your charity site found on Google

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is a bit like the government’s Brexit policy – everyone knows it is important, but most of us are a little unsure as to exactly what it is. Although other search engines exist, we’ll refer primarily to Google as that’s the most important one. SEO is ultimately about getting your site’s […]

What’s the point of your charity website? How can you tell if it’s any good?

On the one hand, it’s obvious. It’s 2017, you have to have a website. Because everyone’s got one. On the other hand, have you ever stopped to think about what the purpose of it is, and how you measure its success? For an ecommerce or business site that’s easy to answer as those organisations have […]

Tips for creating charity website content

‘Content is King’ That’s one of the most well-known digital maxims. Your website’s content is arguably more important than the graphic design or the functionality of it. Yet it’s almost always the most overlooked aspect of the website development process. It’s fun to pick designs, colours and fonts and all the nice-looking aesthetics, but filling […]

WordPress Default CPT Archives vs Using a Page as a Parent of Custom Post Types

In this post for WordPress tecchies I’ll tackle a subject that crops up a fair bit in building sites for clients – whether to use the default archive functionality or to create a static ‘Page’ and use that as the parent for single Custom Post Type (CPT) posts. There’s no right or wrong answer but […]

Copywriting tip: Hoover up the fluff text on your charity website

Cut to the chase. That’s the message of this blog post. For me, one of the biggest differences between a good charity website and a mediocre one is the amount of ‘fluff’ text that’s spread throughout the site. Fluff text is words that don’t really need to be there. It’s the sentences that are taking up […]

Is it time to stop sending your charity’s monthly email newsletter?

“I can’t wait for this month’s edition of [your charity name]’s email newsletter!” – No-one, ever. Let me try something else to see if this sounds more familiar. You send out a monthly email newsletter to all your email subscribers because that’s what you’ve always done, and maybe because you still post out printed newsletters […]

Why we use and recommend WordPress

When building or commissioning a new website, one of the most important considerations is the Content Management System (CMS) you’ll build the site with. Get it wrong, and it can cost you a lot of time and money to rectify down the line. “Our current site is too restrictive – it’s too hard to add/edit […]

Free template: Charity website design brief / tender / RFP document

Here I’ll share a template you can use when creating a tender / Request for Proposals (RFP) for the development of a new charity website. I’ll also give you some tips as to what to include and provide an agency/freelancer’s perspective on the process. Download our charity website brief / tender / RFP document template […]

Should you use a carousel/slider on your charity website homepage?

Spoiler alert: no. Someone asked us the other day if we can make sites with carousels/sliders to rotate different content on the homepage, because not many of the sites in our portfolio have them. So here’s the short answer: Yes, we can. And here’s the longer one: Yes we can, but we generally advise clients […]

How the ‘magic of tidying’ will make you a better writer.

I’m now fifty-three pages into the worldwide bestseller ‘The Life-changing Magic of Tidying’ by Marie Kondo. And I’m hooked (not least by her instructions on how to fold socks). How a subject so mundane can be so captivating is a bit of a mystery, especially given that what I’ve read so far boils down to […]