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the Auckland and all-over technical writer

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.

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not enough small businesses online!

It’s estimated that only around half of NZ’s small businesses have a website.

In today’s online-dominated business world, that’s far too few — businesses not online are missing out on many opportunities.

A website is a 24/7 advertisement / shopfront to the world. They’re inexpensive to run and, for a basic small business site, inexpensive to build. 

Rushed as small business owners are just operating their businesses day-to-day, putting up a website or some sort of online presence should be a priority.

So: it was pleasing to see two more small Kiwi businesses getting their shopfronts online this month:

And good to see Mighty Atom Marketing helping them get there.

wamp up your website

If you use WordPress, you’ll know how incredibly easy it is as a web beginner to update your site live — i.e, make changes to it while it is online and visible to everyone.

But if you want to make a WordPress site from scratch, it’s better to do that offline so you can play around with its look and content before releasing it to the world.

There is an easy way to do that too. It involves setting up software, called Wamp, that makes WordPress run on your own computer as if online.

All the Wamp instructions I find online seem to complicate the process. After struggling with other people’s tech-heavy instructions, I finally took some time to put them into plain language.

Here are they are (… give them a go, it will make website development for beginners so much more powerful; and do get in touch if you have any problems following them)

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