Category Archives: Starting Your Gite Website

Re-sizing images quickly with Shrink-O-Matic

One of the things that takes the most time when building a holiday rental website is the photography. It can make or break the site, and I regularly go back to clients to ask them for better shots to really sell their property.

One of the recurring themes is images which are too small (in terms of dimensions, not file size) and it’s something which confuses many people. Read More »

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New service: multi-lingual websites

flagsGiven Sterling’s recent weakness against the Euro, holiday rental owners in the Eurozone have been increasingly keen this year to look to other Eurozone members for guests.

Increasingly I’ve been asked whether I can build multi-lingual websites, and whether I can source the translations for these sites.

The answer to both questions is “yes”.

It doesn’t need to cost a fortune, but adding foreign language pages to your website will make prospective guests feel more welcome from the outset, potentially save you from difficult telephone Q&A’s, and also help you to rank more highly in the local search results for those countries.

If you’re interested, check out the multi-lingual web design package I’ve put together and then get in touch!

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Holiday rental websites: 7 deadly sins of DIY web design

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You’ve found the property, bought it, negotiated your way through the complexities of a foreign legal system, you’ve mastered the local language, turned a run down shack into a rental dream and discovered your flair for interior design, all on a miserly budget. You’re the master of your own destiny, and you can do anything!

You’re ready for your first guests, so now it’s on to the website. Surely you can build your own website right!? Read More »

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Editing and optimising images

I’m a website designer for holiday rental property owners, and one of the questions that crops up all the time is image size and quality. 

Whereas the majority of UK households are now on broadband, many around the world are not, and indeed, the definition of broadband is pretty loose. As I write, I’m on a 500k ‘broadband’ connection in South Africa,  and am finding the internet pretty slow compared to my 8MB connection in the UK. Read More »

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