10 eMarketing Tips #1: Check Your Spelling!
“There” and “Their” or “its” or “it’s” are all correct but only one will be right in your copy (text in your website).
If you weren’t very good at grammar at school – get someone who is to look over your website. Do you have children at school? Maybe ask their English teacher (naturally offer to pay for their services!) Or ask a friend or family member who is confident with spelling and grammar.
Visit the Common Errors in English website if you’re not sure about anything.
I also recommend buying Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
Visitors who find spelling mistakes in your website will subconsciously assume that you or your company is as slapdash in your business dealings as your approach to spelling!
You never notice good spelling – but you always notice bad spelling!
WordPress 3 Released
Everyone that has a WordPress blog needs to do another update – but this one isn’t for bugs – it’s an actual upgrade, which is nice.
Actually, it is a bug release, as the current version is 3.0.1 but 13 million downloads can’t be wrong!
I used WordPress a little when it was still Version One Point Something and couldn’t get on with it. But back in those days it was just blogging software. But by supporting separate pages from blog posts, WordPress has catapulted to the number one PHP content management system for bloggers, personal and company websites.
WP is simple to setup, doesn’t require vast resources to run and the themes and plugin business is growing exponentially. For those who haven’t tried WP, themes change the way your site looks and can be as simple as changing colours, to adding in slideshows and giving a website a corporate look and feel. Plugins are the wonderful things that add functionality to your website and installation is (usually) a breeze.
There are currently over 110 million plugins available on the WordPress site.
And if you’re wondering… yes, this website is running on WordPress. I’m a convert.
