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Using a Chromebook to manage your WordPress website

Chromebooks are cheap laptops that run Google’s ‘Chrome’ operating system rather than Windows or Mac OS. It’s a very lightweight system that comprises of little more than a small hard disc and the Chrome browser that you’re used to using elsewhere.

Simple Photo Retouches to Improve your Images

If you’re using Photoshop, Fireworks or GIMP as your graphic editing programme then here’s a simple 60 second retouching job that you can use on your photos.

Speeding up your Website

You can pay a small fortune to put your site on a really high powered server in order to speed it up, but there’s some much cheaper ways you can get it to run faster.

5 Bits of Shoestring Software Every Website Owner Needs

Here’s my recommendations for the software that you’ll need for your day-to-day digital life as a charity Web Master.

Spend Their Money! 12 Tips for Maximising Your Google Grant

Note: Since I originally wrote this article Google have closed their ‘Grantspro’ scheme to new applications, so you’ll have to make do with the regular Grant if you hadn’t already been upgraded. The approach I’d adopt is still broadly the same though – get your spend up to the daily maximum as quick as you […]