How to Update WordPress from your iPhone or iPad

At Online Visions, WordPress is our blogging platform and content management system of choice.  We love its flexibility and extensive plugin community.  Our clients love the ease of use and the ability to take full control of their own website.  If you’ve used a word processor, you can use WordPress.

Many clients using our WordPress website package are in mobile or trade businesses.  As such, we like to give them the opportunity to update on the go, adding and changing information, prices and news at a moment’s notice.

If you already have a WordPress website and an iPhone, iPad or wifi-enabled iPod Touch, all it takes are two simple steps.

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Google+ (and how the +1 button can benefit your business)

The launch of Google’s new social network has web-savvy businesses and social media marketers eager to get their foot in the door early.

One of the most appealing aspects is the “+1″ button, which Google+ users can find next to every listing in Google’s search results.  By recommending a website with this button, your friends, acquaintances and contacts will see this recommendation when it appears in their search results.

In short, it’s Google’s answer to Facebook’s “like” button, but with the potential to embed itself far more fundamentally  into daily internet use.  Most significantly, there have been strong hints that the “+1″ will soon play a major role in future search engine placement.

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WordPress Mobile

Manage your WordPress powered website from your phone.

WordPress users may not be aware of the range of mobile applications available to manage your wordpress website or blog.

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Why Magento is the best choice for your online store

Magento is Online Visions’ favourite content management system for ecommerce.  At the end of the day, our biggest goal is giving our clients around Australia an online shop that can grow along with their business.

A good content management system should offer complete control to the layperson; the ability to manage everything (just like any bricks-and-mortar business owner) with little to no training or technical knowledge needed.  Magento offers the best of both worlds: easy content management and fine control of essentially every aspect of an online business.

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Choosing Your Domain Name

A domain name is the address or location used to find your website (aka. your web address, url). Your domain name should primarily be chosen based on your company or business name, what best describes your website or what your website is about. As a general rule try to avoid: Read more