4 reasons why your website needs to be secure
What does this even mean?HTTPS is a way to encrypt the information you send over the internet. This protects website users from hacks and attacks that result in someone stealing the information being sent, like credit card or login information.Until now, HTTPS...
How to hide a page from search engines
We know what you're thinking..."Why on earth would I want to hide a page from search engines?! Isn't the point of SEO to have my website pages found?"Well, yes...The point of SEO is to make sure your website and all its pages can be indexed and found by search...
What is a sitemap, and do you need one?
I'm going to be honest and admit that up until this post was published, The Web Hut didn't have a site map. Well, we had one, but hadn't done anything with it. We work hard on making other people's website's tick all the boxes and sometimes neglected to give our own a...
Design or copy: What’s more important for your website?
Nothing excites us more than planning a website. As soon as we read your creative brief, we're picturing the colour scheme you might have, snappy tag lines we can use, images and themes that will fit your brand, blog ideas that will excite your readers, content to...
Why are you wasting your SEO and AdWords budget on your non-responsive website?
Would you buy an 80 grand Mercedes and fill the petrol tank with Coca Cola? Would you buy a new house and camp out in the backyard in a tent? No? Then why would you spend money directing traffic to a website that people can’t view on mobile and still contains content...
How to successfully rebrand your business (and stay sane)
Rebranding your business is a big deal. It's like a face-lift, and seeing as this isn't Hollywood, I'm presuming that you take plastic surgery fairly seriously? Sometimes a rebrand is done out of necessity, due to a business merger or significant structural change of...
How to stop your website leaking precious mobile traffic
Lets face it, no one likes a leaky anything, least of all Dear Liza and Dear Henry. But a website that's leaking mobile traffic is particularly bad for your business. Why? Because people don’t like things that don’t work when they need them to. With 50% of adults...
Simple design tips for creating a successful website
Creating a successful website doesn’t come easy. A website that does a good job needs to have a clean and modern design, needs to ‘sell’ you through the copy and needs to be optimised for search engines and conversion. There are many pieces to the ‘successful website’...
5 quick and easy ways to improve your website today
There's a staggering number of businesses in Australia that fail within their first year of operation, and it's thought that more than three quarters of those that failed didn't have a website. Or, had a really shitty website. Appearances shouldn't matter (but we know...
How to use blogs to easily grow your business
When you're busy working on and in your business, finding the time to write blogs is pretty hard. And even when you do have time, you find yourself staring at a blank screen not knowing what to write about, or worried that whatever you say will sound stupid. Despite...