Everyone has a favourite colour. We have a built in emotional response to colour palettes and we can’t often describe why. The simple fact is that colours have a powerful emotional pull on everyone. They have been tested and used by designers for decades to perfect the selling process. With the right colours you can influence people in a strong way. People will identify with you through colour.

 

You can even convince people to buy, just by choosing the right colours. Have you ever thought about this when it comes to your website? What kind of people is your colour scheme attracting? Today we’re going to look in a little more detail at why this is so important. Plus, we’ll explain how you put this knowledge into action on your site.
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Your website is the storefront that can be accessed 24/7 by your target market. It’s so important that this storefront sets up a good impression and makes the viewer eager to learn more about you, or do business with you. To give you an idea of what your website should be like, take a look at these 7 things it should have, plus a few things it shouldn’t.

Your Website Should Have

Easy to Use Navigation

Your website should be stupidly simple to use for the person on it. They should know exactly where to go and what to do to find the information they want. You can’t make it too hard for them, or they just won’t stick around for long at all.

Useful, Original Content

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There is no point writing a blog if you don’t have a readership. Every blogger out there wants (and needs) to expand their audience. If you are writing things that nobody is reading, you have an issue. There are a few easy things you can do to get your site off the ground. Read these amazing tips so that you can start gaining a following for your blog soon.

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These days there are thousands of ways to earn some money in life. Some of them are good ideas, and some are just downright wrong and illegal! But if you’re a tech-savvy individual and you’ve got a computer, one legitimate way is through blogging.
The Web comprises of around one billion websites as of the time of writing. Many of those sites generate revenue for the site owners. If you’re planning to start a blog, you can join the many people that monetize it and eventually earn a living off the proceeds.

If you’re keen to start a new blog on your favorite subject, you’re doubtless interested in learning how to monetize it too. Keep reading to find out more about the wonderful world of affiliate linking!
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How many WordPress Plugins does your website use? Most of us use many to help save us time and make updating and maintaining our websites a lot easier.

Plugins also allow us to save time.

One plugin I have been checking out recently is Live Scores – this WordPress Plugin shows live sports scores, including football, basketball and tennis. This example is a site I randomly found using the plugin.

Having checked it out on a couple of sports sites, it’s looks very handy for visitors. They may be seeking a live update of their favourite team, other scores in their team’s division, or to find out point scorers in their fantasy team.

All-in-all, this plugin is very useful to webmasters who are running sports sites with an audience looking for this information.

Looking at the instructions, it’s straightforward to download and install – virtually no HTML knowledge is required. Yet, it provides so much useful up-to-date information for visitors to the relevant websites.

For sports fans, they will no doubt find this information useful, which makes it almost an essential plugin for webmasters of relevant websites – saving them a lot of money in trying to create their own live scores service.

Sports fans – what are your favourite plugins and tools you like on websites? Which ones do you check out regularly? I would love to feature more on my blog.

A number of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) often don’t have the resources or a team of IT specialists to deal with a number of problems that arise.

Therefore, when a system goes down, a call goes out a third party repair technician, and there’s often a delay in them being able to get to your property promptly.

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