Praeparo Launch Coast Radar
Praeparo has launched a new version of the Coast Radar website aimed to help coastal businesses connect with people researching or planning trips to coastal areas. The website has been designed to be responsive to the device (PC, laptop, tablet, smart phone) being used. Other key elements are a map that knows where you are, improved navigation system, improved performance, new business listing management area. To coincide with the launch Coast Radar has launched a Social Media campaign making...
Read MoreCoast Radar goes responsive
Praeparo today launched the Beta of Coast Radar, see beta.coastradar.com Coast Radar was faced with a problem that many other websites are also struggling with. The whole idea that visitors are using different sized devices and expect a tailored experience. At first we worked on a main website, mobile website and iphone application but this just became too expensive and complicated to keep in sync. After listening to what the users were saying we decided on a completely new version of the...
Read MoreYou must have a mobile website
If you don’t have a website optimized for mobile devices then you are missing out. In the last 12 months mobile devices have become the norm and now more people spend time researching using mobile devices. They now expect websites to be optimized for such devices. This means if you designed your website 12-18 months ago you need to be thinking if it fits this model. At Praeparo we point a lot of our customers towards WordPress nowadays for a number of reasons: 1) It is easy to keep up...
Read MoreURL address mistakes
More and more business owners are opting for Content Management Systems or eCommerce products. One of the big resulting problems we see more and more is an inadequate URL structure. All too often the URL shown in the address bar has raw parameters, for example www.mydomain.com?prodid=123&opt=2 This technically works but loses you points in the search engine optimisation game. Thus, it is much better to have a human understandable URL, for example www.mydomain.com/menswear/jumpers However,...
Read MoreWordPress on the iPhone
If you have an iPhone and a WordPress blog then the free WordPress application is must have. One of the big challenges when blogging is having the time to keep adding content. Well, this iPhone app solves the problem by allowing all those wasted hours commuting or hanging around to become productive in creating or moderarting your wordpress blog. Some of the features: Manage multiple blogs Add and manage pages Add and manage posts Moderate comments Add photos It also features to autosave, so...
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