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Ben Maden

Does Having Local Hosting Help Your SEO?

Despite being deathly ill with some child brewed illness I can’t help but offer advice when I see people with the wrong ideas and on an email list I’m a part of I came across someone earlier today in that category. They claimed that the miniscule page speed improvements you get from having a hosting  Read more

Steve Richard-Preston

Hi DPI Explained – What Are The Web Design Implications?

HiDPI – What is it? In the simplest terms possible, an HiDPI display is one that packs in more pixels per square inch than a regular display, to the extent that individual pixels are indistinguishable to the human eye at a typical viewing distance. Doubling the resolution (quadrupling the pixel count) seems to have emerged as the  Read more

Stacey

Site Relaunch for Air & Water

We are delighted to reveal Air & Water’s newly-designed and built website! Air & Water is a family-owned business specialising in the design and installation of air conditioning, home heating, hot water and solar power systems in Perth. Visit Air & Water’s Site We took time in speaking with owners Julie and Don Curnow to  Read more

Steve Richard-Preston

Steve’s Web Design Trends and Predictions for 2013

Web Design Trends and Predictions for 2013 It’s that time of the year, again. Christmas and the New Year is imminent, and here at Matter Solutions we’re all thinking of the year ahead, contemplating what lay ahead in the world of web design and development. Here are a couple of my tips for 2013. 1. Goodbye Mobile Templates, Hello  Read more

Ben Maden

How Google has changed job interviews….

Plato said… "The discovery of the alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. You give your disciples not truth but only the semblance of truth; they will be heroes of many things, and will  Read more

Eddie Gorman

WordPress – Changing the on page title without renaming the page

From working with an in house SEO team, I regularly get asked about changing particular sections of text within WordPress sites, the answer usually lies within an excerpt, a widget or a custom field. In the past, one of the more troublesome snippets has been the on page title – this is usually a h1  Read more

Eddie Gorman

WordPress user registration and newsletter sign up all at once

A handy tip for allowing users to sign up to your newsletter while also registering as a user on your website.

Eddie Gorman

What’s the best way to migrate a WordPress website?

If you’ve got a WordPress website (or any website for that matter!), chances are you’re going to need to move it at some point – whether you’re moving from development to a live environment or simply switching hosts – It can often be tedious at best, or at worst, pretty complicated. In the past I’ve found  Read more

Steve Richard-Preston

How 37 Signals Missed a Trick with the new Basecamp Design – It’s not Responsive

Pretty Vs Ugly When 37Signals unveiled their ‘new’ Basecamp late last year I was most impressed with the new look and feel. Let’s face it, Basecamp classic could have won an award for world’s ugliest web application. It’s not surprising that any change was a step in the right direction. Here’s the fancy new design  Read more

Eddie Gorman

New Market Smartly WordPress Website Launched

A funky design, great content management capabilities, a blog, two turtles and a rocket….what more could you want from a WordPress Website

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