Tag Archives: gite website design

Cross-browser testing for your gite website

By Dave | Published: March 31, 2009

Whilst working on some improvements to Rent a Gite in France, I decided to check that the changes I’d made the the theme I was using hadn’t broken anything in the various browsers, and I did this using a free tool called Browser Shots. This tool is invaluable to website designers as it allows you to [...]

Editing and optimising images

By Dave | Published: January 28, 2009

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 [...]

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Finally, position 1 on Google for gite website design

By Dave | Published: January 27, 2009

Since setting up the Gite Guru website, I’ve had a few search ‘keyword’ phrases I’ve been targeting in Google. Some of them were pretty easy to get (“Gite Guru”: week 1, zero competition, ” build gite website “: week 2 for some reason) and some of them proved more difficult (” gite website design “, [...]

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Adding a favicon to your Wordpress blog

By Dave | Published: January 25, 2009

Someone asked me how to use a favicon with a Wordpress blog the other day, and it wasn’t as simple as adding a favicon to a traditional website. What the heck’s a favicon? A favicon is a small image (.ico extension) which, when correctly configured with your website or blog, appears in the browser of the person [...]