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Corporate and technical writers
If you need to move your WordPress website to a new web host, there are plenty of plugins you can load into your site that will do the job for you. But my experience, having tried a number of them, is of repeated time-outs, failed transfers, and restrictive data limits.
Last week, I took the plunge and gave it a go manually. It worked a treat.
[Read more…] about how to easily move a WordPress website to a new web hostNext month, Google releases a major update to its search tool by ranking website speed. Yawn, I hear you say! But, no, hang on, take note of this one.
The update will — put simply — make the speed at which your website’s pages load a significant factor in how well your site ranks in Google search.
Page load speed has always been a very important factor in visitor website satisfaction. All the reputable stats show that if people wait for too long for a page to load, many will leave a site before the page displays. Slow sites lose sales.
Now, Google is to make speed even more important, and all website owners should be aware of what that means for them.
[Read more…] about the need for website speedIf you’re writing a user guide or policy manual, or similar, and its target readership (staff or customers) is spread over different locations, I often recommend moving away from a printed document (such as Word/PDF).
Instead, I steer clients towards creating online (HTML or XML) documents.
That sounds like it’s introducing new complexities but, really, the learning curve is not steep, and the benefits strongly outweigh what is largely, and simply, concern of the unknown.
[Read more…] about benefits of online user guidesI was privileged to build an online magazine called Mata Media (http://matamedia.co.nz/) last week for Aotearoa Media Collective.
Mata Media has been set up as an online platform to publish Māori journalism and opinions from Māori perspectives, targeting specifically writing that may not find a home anywhere else.
It’s a great concept (and not a bad-looking site!!), and I’ll look forward to reading the work on it as it grows over time.
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The great thing with the growth in web-based communications and tools is that a technical writer can very successfully work remotely with customers.
I do plenty of technical writing for customers in Auckland, for example, while based in the lower North Island.
In fact, between 2017 and 2019, I helped clients with technical writing or web writing in Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, Zurich (yes, the time difference is a killer!), Singapore, and outside the main centres: in Paremata, Otaki and Levin.
[Read more…] about the Auckland and all-over technical writer