Knowledge Base - webstix

SEO

How to Add More Locations to a Google Business Profile

If your business has more than one real-world location, you can add each one to Google Business Profile so customers can find the right office,

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Tony Herman April 9, 2026

How To Find Internal Linking Opportunities Fast

TL;DR: Pick a target page, list its “related phrases,” then search your site for those words and add links where they make sense. The “10-Minute”

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Tony Herman January 20, 2026

Internal Links Vs Backlinks: What Matters More Early On?

TL;DR: Early on, internal links are the fastest thing you fully control. Backlinks are powerful, but harder and slower to earn. Do both, but don’t

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Tony Herman January 20, 2026

How To Build a Topic Cluster With Internal Links

TL;DR: Create one main “hub” page for a topic, then write supporting pages that answer specific questions. Interlink them so Google (and readers) see the

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Tony Herman January 20, 2026

What Is The Best Anchor Text For Internal Links?

TL;DR: Use anchor text that clearly describes the destination page in plain language. Think helpful first, SEO second. What Anchor Text Does Anchor text helps:

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Tony Herman January 20, 2026

How Many Internal Links Should a Blog Post Have?

TL;DR: For most posts, 3–8 internal links is a solid range. The right number depends on length and how much related content you have. A

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Tony Herman January 20, 2026

Should I Submit a Sitemap To Google If My Site Is Small?

TL;DR: Yes. Even small sites benefit from an XML sitemap. It’s not magic, but it helps Google discover URLs and understand site structure. What A

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Tony Herman January 20, 2026

Do Internal Links Help Google Index Pages Faster?

TL;DR: Yes. Internal links are one of the best ways to help Google discover new pages faster and understand what they’re about. Why Internal Links

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Tony Herman January 20, 2026

How To Request Indexing In Google Search Console

TL;DR: Paste your URL into Search Console’s URL Inspection tool, then click “Request Indexing.” This doesn’t guarantee indexing, but it often speeds discovery. Before You

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Tony Herman January 20, 2026

Why Isn’t Google Indexing My Page? A Simple Checklist

TL;DR: Most indexing problems come from one of these: the page is blocked, set to noindex, hard to discover (no internal links), or the content

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Tony Herman January 20, 2026

How Long Does It Take Google to Index a New Page?

TL;DR: It can be anywhere from a few hours to a few weeks. You can usually speed it up by making sure the page is

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Tony Herman January 20, 2026

How to Fix Broken Links on Your Website Using Redirects

Broken links can hurt your SEO, confuse visitors, and make your site look outdated. The good news? You can usually fix them with a simple

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Tony Herman July 8, 2025

The Ultimate Guide to Site Speed Optimization Services

Boost conversions and SEO with a site speed optimization service. Learn benefits, tools, and expert solutions for faster websites.

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Tony Herman June 13, 2025

Slow Website Blues? Here’s Why a Speed Optimization Service is Your Best Friend

Boost site speed, rankings, and sales—discover how a website speed optimization service fixes slow load times and lifts conversions.

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Tony Herman June 13, 2025

What Does SEO Do for Your Website?

SEO (or Search Engine Optimization) is the process of tuning website pages to have a better chance of showing up as top results in searches

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Tony Herman September 18, 2020

Credit Card Processing

Credit Card Processing Errors

Credit Card Decline Messages Note: This article is geared more for companies who run websites and process credit cards through their website where they receive

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Tony Herman August 2, 2011

Domain Names

Who Will Buy the Domain For My New Website?

We have our clients buy their own domain names so they have ownership of them. Having a domain in your name is as important as having

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Tony Herman September 18, 2020

DNS Changes When Switching Website Hosting to Webstix

Changing DNS Settings When you switch your website hosting to Webstix, one thing that must be looked at is the DNS (Domain Name Service) settings. DNS

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Tony Herman June 1, 2015

How to Change DNS Settings for Your Domain

All About DNS If Webstix is going to take over the hosting of your website (and possibly email), then the best course of action is to

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Tony Herman May 1, 2014

Transferring a Domain Name to a New Registrar

Domain Name Transfer One issue that we see come up from time to time is when one of our clients tries to switch their hosting to

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Tony Herman May 15, 2012

What Are These “Important Notice Regarding Your Domain Name(s)” Emails?

You may see an email with this subject line come from your domain name registrar. They have to send the domain owner an email like this

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Tony Herman May 16, 2011

Email

Send Us Email Headers

Diagnosing Email Issues Sometimes when we are diagnosing problems with email, we’ll ask you to forward the email headers to us. Email programs typically hide all

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Tony Herman March 22, 2016

Switch Your Email to Google’s G Suite

Supercharge Your Email! Because people are using all kinds of devices to access email, the way your email is hosted needs to be able to handle

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Tony Herman October 16, 2015

Setting up Email in Outlook / Setting up Gmail in Outlook

How to Set Up Your Email in Outlook If you are using our email and need to use an email program (client) like Outlook, then here

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Tony Herman July 11, 2012

Webstix Email Services

How Does Webstix Email Work? Email can be a complicated animal sometimes. This article will explain some more about what to expect from an email account

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Tony Herman July 18, 2011

Forms

Why Am I Not Receiving Emails from the Forms on my Website?

Not Receiving Emails from Website If you have a form on your website – like form on the Contact Us page or an employment application page,

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Tony Herman December 5, 2014

Eliminate Form Spam with CAPTCHA

USING FORMS ON YOUR WEBSITE? GOT “CAPTCHA?”

If you website has any kind of form on it, then you will probably encounter “form

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Tony Herman May 10, 2011

Setting Up Forms on Your Website

Information Required for Setting Up a Form on a Website Your website can have various forms on it like a Contact Us type of form. There

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Tony Herman March 11, 2009

General

Can I Manage My Website Myself?

Any website built on a CMS (content management system) like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, or Magento (among others) do have dashboards where you can login and add,

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Tony Herman September 18, 2020

Who Provides Images/Photos for a Website?

Our clients need to provide most of the images for a website but stock photography can be used. Hiring a photographer and doing a photo shoot

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Tony Herman September 18, 2020

Who Writes Website Content?

Website content development is typically done by a Web Copywriter. This type of copywriter specializes in content specifically for websites, focusing on content that can be

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Tony Herman September 18, 2020

Recent Update to Remarketing with Google Analytics 2017

Google has recently sent out an email to their Google Analytics users stating that the Remarketing with Google Analytics will soon be enhanced to take advantage

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Tony Herman June 7, 2017

How Many Pages Will Webstix Set Up?

Your Webstix Service Agreement should specify how many pages we’ve estimated your website will need. We often include a number of pages in our basic CMS

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Tony Herman January 30, 2017

How to Copy and Paste

One very good and basic computer skill to have is learning how to copy and paste things. This saves you typing and you’re ensured that when

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Tony Herman January 19, 2015

Home Page vs. Inside Pages for Websites

The Website Design Process at Webstix As we go through creating wire frames (which just show layout, no design) and then designs from those wire frames,

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Tony Herman December 2, 2014

Video Shoots – On Camera Guidelines

Video Shoot Notes Some notes about the video shoot: Please be on time and ready to go when you are scheduled. If you are going to

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Tony Herman September 23, 2014

How to Connect Using SFTP

Webstix Hosting – Using SFTP/FTPS Starting in July 2015, our server just uses SFTP and not regular FTP. This change will make passwords more secure since

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Tony Herman December 4, 2013

What is a URL?

What Do You Mean by “URL?” URL stands for “Uniform Resource Locator” and here is the definition from Wikipedia: A uniform resource locator, abbreviated URL, also

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Tony Herman August 1, 2013

Relative Links vs. Absolute Links

Relative Links vs. Absolute Links When working with website and creating web pages, there are two ways to reference an item – an item being a

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Tony Herman January 9, 2012

Post PDF Files, Not Word Documents on Your Website

Use PDFs Instead of Word Docs When posting files for people to download on your website, think primarily about your website visitors. That’s the key. Think

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Tony Herman December 15, 2011

New Client Welcome

Hello! Thanks for choosing Webstix for your website project! It’s Tony from Webstix and I wanted to welcome you and give you some information about your

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Tony Herman June 7, 2011

Constant Contact Email Marketing

Build Your Email Contact List! One of the best ways to build your business is to build an email list of your clients. If you’re not

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Tony Herman March 15, 2011

Webstix Needs FTP Access

FTP Access We’re happy to start working on a project with you. We will need FTP access to your website (what is FTP access?) in order

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Tony Herman February 14, 2011

What is FTP Access?

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) for Website Access FTP stands for “File Transfer Protocol” – does that answer your question? Of course not – that’s geek speak.

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Tony Herman June 4, 2010

How to Do a Force Refresh

The Short Answer: To force refresh a page on your desktop computer, Do a SHIFT + Reload Hold down the SHIFT key and click the Reload

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Tony Herman April 9, 2010

Copying and Pasting from Word

Sanitizing Text When Working on Websites Copying and pasting from Microsoft Word is a well known problem using any CMS (WordPress, Joomla, etc.). This issue

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Tony Herman September 10, 2009

E-Newsletter Management

E-Newsletters and Your Website Offering an e-newsletter on your website is a great idea – probably a better idea than you think, too! E-newsletters are quickly

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Tony Herman August 12, 2008

Google PageSpeed

What Negatively Affects Your Google PageSpeed Score

Google PageSpeed Optimization Projects When building a website, there are some thing that you might want on your website but if you include them, you’ll have

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Tony Herman February 12, 2016

HTML Help

How to Make Your Website’s Phone Number Clickable for Mobile Website Visitors

When people view your website on their phone, you want to make sure they can click (tap) on your phone number and then have it dial

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Tony Herman March 12, 2018

How to Link an Email Address

Making a link to an email address is a little different than a normal link. Normal links start with: https:// and email links start with: mailto:

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Tony Herman March 23, 2012

Joomla Help

VirtueMart – Uploading Product Images (if you are having trouble)

Uploading Images in VirtueMart When creating a product in VirtueMart, you’re able to upload images from your computer (versus choosing from the image library on the

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Tony Herman January 30, 2017

VirtueMart – Do Not Store Credit Card Numbers / Information

VirtueMart has the option of storing credit card numbers or not. It is best to have this setting turned off and we will only turn this

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Tony Herman March 26, 2012

Uploading Images in VirtueMart

When creating a product in VirtueMart, you’re able to upload images from your computer (versus choosing from the image library on the server / on your

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Tony Herman January 9, 2012

Add a New Poll (Survey) to a Joomla Website

Set up the Poll / Voting Survey Set up a poll by going to: Components > Polls Click “New” at the top right and fill in

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Tony Herman December 7, 2011

VirtueMart – Change the Email that Receives Orders

Change the VirtueMart Email Account Sometimes you want to change which email account receives the order emails in VirtueMart. You can change this yourself. It’s sometimes

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Tony Herman August 3, 2011

How Do I Back Up a Page in Joomla?

One big feature that’s missing with Joomla is an archive of previous versions of pages. WordPress has this feature but it’s not glamorous – it could

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Tony Herman July 18, 2011

Turn Joomla Email Cloaking Off

Joomla, by default, tries to cloak email address that it finds in content so that spambots searching websites to harvest email addresses can’t find them (side

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Tony Herman July 8, 2011

Unlock a Joomla Page

If you are trying to work on a page on your Joomla website and it’s saying that it’s locked by another user, then you will have

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Tony Herman April 4, 2011

Magento Help

Create a New Manufacturer

Procedure #1: Login to the admin panel. Navigate to: Catalog > Attributes > Manage Attributes using the top navigation bar. Find the attribute “manufacturer” and click

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Tony Herman July 22, 2015

Magento Reindexing Product Data

Magento uses a powerful technique of indexing to revolutionize data such as product, category details, and so on, to increase the performance of the online store.

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Tony Herman August 27, 2014

Add a New Portfolio

To add a new portfolio, follow these 2 steps: Create a new photo gallery block Call the photo gallery block Procedure I: Create a new photo

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Tony Herman June 23, 2014

Add a Simple Product

Login to admin panel Navigate to Catalog > Manage Products Click Add Product button on the right side of the screen Select Attribute Set as

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Tony Herman June 23, 2014

Add a Testimonial

Follow these steps to add a new testimonial: Log in to the admin panel Navigate to CMS -> Testimonials There you can see the list of

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Tony Herman June 23, 2014

Add a Blog Post

Please follow these instructions: Login to Magento Admin Panel with the login credentials of your online store Navigate to CMS -> Blog Pro -> Add Post

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Tony Herman June 20, 2014

Add a CMS Page

Instructions to add a new page: Login to the Magento admin panel Navigate to CMS -> Pages Click on Add New Page on the top right

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Tony Herman June 20, 2014

Add a Static Block

Log into your Magento admin panel Navigate to CMS -> Static Blocks Click Add New Block in the top right corner Give your block a

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Tony Herman June 20, 2014

Add a Menu Item

Instructions below to add a menu item: On the Admin menu, Navigate to Catalog -> Manage Categories. First you have to choose/click a category. If you

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Tony Herman June 20, 2014

Miscellaneous

Update on Google Maps Platform

Major update on the Google Maps Platform Google has launched a major update to the Maps API platform in 2018. Google changed it to premium plans.

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Tony Herman August 12, 2019

What Does Webstix Need for Blog Content?

Blog/News Content for Your Website You might have a Latest News feature on your website it might be called a blog. Either way, it’s really the

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Tony Herman September 30, 2015

What Does Webstix Need for Testimonials Content?

Our Testimonials Module When you order the Testimonials module/widget for your website, it’s a group of testimonials from your customers about your business that randomly appear

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Tony Herman September 30, 2015

What Does Webstix Need for “Did You Know?” Content?

Our “Did You Know?” Module When you order the “Did You Know?” module/widget for your website, it’s a group of facts/factoids about your business that randomly

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Tony Herman September 30, 2015

How to Clean Up Your Google Plus Account

Make Sure You Have the Right Listing Claimed It’s really important that your business only has one Google Plus account and that it’s the right one.

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Tony Herman July 8, 2015

What We Need to Start PPC Optimization

How to Link a Google AdWords Account for Review Write down the account number in the top of your AdWords screen where it says “Customer ID

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Tony Herman April 1, 2015

Install a Facebook Like Button

Facebook Like Button for Your Website It’s good to have a Facebook “Like” button on your website so that people can like your website / web

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Tony Herman July 2, 2013

Payment Gateways

PayPal Express Checkout – What We Need

PayPal Express Checkout PayPal Express Checkout gives your customers the ability to choose PayPal payment during the checkout process. Your customer is redirected to the secured

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Tony Herman January 23, 2015

Payflow Pro Accounts – What We Need

If you are going to use PayPal’s Payflow Pro as your payment gateway provider, then we will need a few things from you in order to

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Tony Herman February 20, 2014

Test Your Payment Gateway / Daily Store Tasks

Make Sure Your Payment Gateway Works With a Live Transaction When your website launches or if we have done any changes to a payment/donation form on

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Tony Herman May 1, 2012

Advantages of Using Authorize.net as a Payment Gateway

What is a Payment Gateway? In short, a payment gateway is a bridge from the online world to the banking world. The two are not inherently

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Tony Herman May 20, 2011

How Do I Sign Up for Authorize.net?

Sign Up for Authorize.net You can do it a number of ways. You can either go through your bank or else start right now, right here:

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Tony Herman February 16, 2011

How Do I Get Started With a Payment Gateway and Authorize.net?

Take Credit Cards Online Being able to take credit card payments online can seem a bit confusing. This article will try to explain thing a bit.

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Tony Herman August 3, 2010

Authorize.net Accounts – What We Need

What We Need to Set Up Authorize.net for You If you are going to use Authorize.net as your payment gateway provider, then we will need a

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Tony Herman December 16, 2009

Web Site Merchant Account Requirements

Below are the requirements we’ve received from a vendor that provides merchant services. They need to check your website for these thing (all or most may

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Tony Herman November 12, 2009

What is a Payment Gateway and What Does Webstix Need in Order to Set it Up?

A payment gateway is a link from the online world to the banking world. It is what is needed so that your website can talk to

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Tony Herman July 30, 2009

PCI Compliance

Webstix and PCI Compliance

PCI Compliance In the world we live in today, having a website and server that’s secure is necessary. If you’re running a website that has e-commerce,

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Tony Herman July 25, 2011

Post-Launch

Why Can’t I See Our Website From Within Our Office Network?

My New Website Launched, How Come I See the Old One Still? This happens from time to time and we do our best to help our

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Tony Herman September 27, 2012

How Do I Change the Title Tag on the Home Page of My Site?

Good question. First, let’s quickly discuss why you might not want to do this. With most, if not all, websites we set up, the home page

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Tony Herman May 3, 2010

Pre-Launch

Creating a Google Maps API Key

Google Maps is a Web-based service that provides detailed information about geographical regions and sites around the world. The Google Maps Platform is a set of

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Tony Herman April 7, 2020

Instructions for Giving Us Access to Your Google My Business Account

Google My Business is a free tool that helps small businesses create and manage their Google listings, which appear when customers find businesses on Google search

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Tony Herman February 19, 2020

Google Search Console Access

Give Webstix Access to Your Google Search Console Account If you’re having Webstix do SEO work on your website, we’ll need to get added as a

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Tony Herman October 28, 2015

Setting Up Proper 301 Redirects

Why Page Redirects are Kind of a Big Deal We do a fair number of projects for new websites under new domain names but most projects

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Tony Herman October 16, 2015

How We Manage Project Scope

Project Scope As we work on a website project, some changes can happen. This is actually pretty typical. As the pieces come together, new ideas come

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Tony Herman October 16, 2015

Using Home Page Slide Shows

If your new website is going to use a slide show on the home page, then there are a number of things you should know. First,

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Tony Herman December 1, 2014

Give Webstix Access to Google Analytics

Google Analytics Access For us to adequately give you advice about your website and monitor its success, we need access to your Google Analytics account. All

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Tony Herman May 30, 2013

Should We Use CSS2 or CSS3?

Ok, What are You Talking About? Do you mind if we get a little technical for a minute? As you’re aware, website technology is always evolving.

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Tony Herman April 10, 2013

Send Webstix Your Website Content

How to Send Your Content to Us It’s best to start working on your content (copy/text and images) as soon as you can. Getting content from

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Tony Herman September 4, 2012

Sending Webstix Your Logo

Get Us Your Logo Files Webstix needs your company logo for your website project or maintenance work. Here is some information about your logo, how we’ll

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Tony Herman August 1, 2012

Cart Integration – Sales Tax and Your Shopping Cart

Sales Tax Settings In Your Cart When we work on your shopping cart for your website, there are a number of things we need to know

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Tony Herman April 27, 2012

How Do I Send Large Files?

Sending Large Files to Us (or Anyone) Sending large files over email can be a problem sometimes. Outgoing email servers might have limits or there could

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Tony Herman April 19, 2012

Editing “Hosts” Files

Viewing Websites Before Launch Sometimes, when launching a new website, the new website is on a new hosting account or on a new IP address. Launching

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Tony Herman March 12, 2012

What Kind of Fonts Can My Website Have?

Website Fonts Can my site have fonts? Fonts are defined in the style sheet (template) of the website and that’s so that you don’t have to

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Tony Herman November 11, 2011

E-Newsletter Integration

Why Do Email Marketing? Your email list is gold… seriously! People sign up and they want to hear from you because they’re interested in your products

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Tony Herman March 15, 2011

Register for USPS Online Tools

USPS Online Tools If we are calculating the shipping rate for the cart dynamically, we need to get the shipping rate for the products from the

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Tony Herman February 28, 2011

Cart Integration – UPS Shipping

UPS Shopping Cart Integration To have your website shopping cart connected with UPS shipping, we need the following: 1. Sign Up at UPS First, go to

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Tony Herman October 15, 2010

How to Construct a Privacy Policy

You should have a privacy policy on your website. It explains to people visiting your site what you do with any information collected about that. When

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Tony Herman September 25, 2009

Which Types of Files do you Accept?

When working on projects, we only accept documents in electronic format. This saves time and mistakes. If we need to type a document, then we need

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Tony Herman February 18, 2009

Picking Out Website Colors

When starting a project for a client, we like to know some color preferences. This helps our design team craft a website around your company’s image.

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Tony Herman February 17, 2009

Pre-Project

Story Boarding a Website Project

What is Story Boarding a Website? Story boarding is essentially the blueprints. It is a basic level prototype which has a series of pages showing how

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Tony Herman May 30, 2013

Troubleshooting

How Do I Make My Website Faster?

Slow Loading Websites Can Have Problems At Webstix, we do original website design work but sometimes we get designs from clients that they want turned into

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Tony Herman October 15, 2014

Website is Not Working – What to Do

The Website Isn’t Up! Note: This article isn’t written specifically for Webstix clients – it’s written for a general audience. If you are one of our

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Tony Herman May 3, 2013

How Does a 301 Redirect Work?

Website Redirects In the Web world, there is a kind of redirect called a 301 redirect. This kind of redirect tells search engines that the redirect

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Tony Herman January 28, 2013

Support for Web Browsers

Web Browser Compatibility With Websites We Develop Does Webstix Support All Web Browsers? OUR POLICY: We will only support the latest version and only one previous

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Tony Herman June 6, 2011

Which Web Browser Am I Using?

Troubleshooting Website Issues There are a number of popular web browsers out there along with different versions and different operating systems. Sometimes, the coding of a

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Tony Herman May 24, 2011

How to Send Us a Screen Shot

How to Create a Screen Shot Sometimes it’s much easier for us to see what’s going on and what you’re talking about by seeing what’s on

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Tony Herman March 30, 2011

Website Design

How Long Does it Take to Build a Website?

A typical website project is 8 to 12 weeks to go through planning/discovery, design, coding, content, and testing. Some projects may go longer if there’s e-commerce

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Tony Herman September 18, 2020

What Are Wireframes?

Wireframes show layout – more specifically: What the page will contain Where each item on a page goes About how much room each item will use

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Tony Herman September 18, 2020

How Much Does Website Design Cost?

Paid website design typically costs between $2000 and $10,000 for most projects. The size of the website matters along with additional features like photo galleries, forms,

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Tony Herman September 18, 2020

Should You Get a Cheap Website?

You should not get a cheap website because you get what you pay for – you’ll get a cheap website. There’s a lot of technical and

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Tony Herman September 18, 2020

Why Web Design is Important

Very often, the first impression of your brand is your website. The design of the website must: Load properly on whatever device is being used Clearly

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Tony Herman September 18, 2020

What’s the Difference Between Web Design and Web Development?

Are web design and web development the same? Web design is the style part of the website, and web development is the HTML/CSS coding along with

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Tony Herman September 18, 2020

What’s the Difference Between a Site Map and Navigation?

To answer this question can be a little complicated and difficult to understand if you’re new to the website design process, so we’ll explain this a

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Tony Herman January 2, 2018

Website Hosting

Who Hosts a Website When it Launches?

Your website can be hosted with a web host or sometimes your web developer offers hosting. A website can be hosted at any website host that

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Tony Herman September 18, 2020

Delegating Access From GoDaddy

Delegating Access From GoDaddy A good way to give access to a GoDaddy account without handing someone your own username and password is to use the

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Tony Herman January 23, 2018

How is My Website Hosting Transferred to Webstix?

How to Move Website Hosting From One Host to Another One question we sometimes get is how to transfer a website from another host over to

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Tony Herman October 26, 2017

Do I Need a Dedicated IP Address or Shared IP Address?

The Pros and Cons of a Dedicated IP Address for Hosting A long time ago, every website out there needed its own IP address on a

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Tony Herman January 23, 2017

How Do I Make My Website Secure?

When talking about making a website secure, what that usually means is encrypting the connection between the web server and the computer accessing the website. This

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Tony Herman January 18, 2017

The Differences between SSL, EV and UCC Certificates

Website Certificates This article will explain the different kinds of certificates available for website encryption. It’s important to note that certificates just encrypt the transmission of

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Tony Herman June 12, 2015

Renewing Your SSL Certificate

Complete All Steps Every Time You Renew Your SSL Certificate If you are a website hosting client of ours and we’re handling your SSL certificate, then

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Tony Herman August 28, 2014

Using Multiple Vendors for Online Services

Clashes With Web and Email Hosts In a perfect world, everything would just work. Unfortunately, this world we have isn’t perfect, so there will be problems.

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Tony Herman July 25, 2014

Webstix Hosting vs. Webstix X-Press Hosting

Choose Your Hosting for WordPress Websites If we’re building a WordPress website for you, you have some hosting options. WordPress is Software First, you should know

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Tony Herman January 16, 2014

How to Find Out Who is Hosting a Website

“Where is This Site Hosted?” One issue we often run into is that we get new clients who become responsible for their websites but they don’t

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Tony Herman January 25, 2013

What Webstix Needs to Set Up Your Website Hosting

If you are transferring a website to Webstix, there are a few things we need in order to get your website set up on our hosting.

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Tony Herman October 30, 2012

What Are SSL Certificates?

SSL Certificate and Website Security If your website performs any e-commerce or asks website visitors to submit any kind of sensitive information, then you will want

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Tony Herman February 6, 2012

Is My Website Encrypted?

Question: How do we find out if it is encrypted or not? If it’s not encrypted, what would be the cost and process to do so?

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Tony Herman July 18, 2011

My Website’s “Secure” So It Can’t Be Hacked, Right?

Well, yes and no. There’s network security and application security.

With network security, which is the encryption used in SSL certificates (if your website is set

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Tony Herman May 25, 2011

Change Your Website Hosting to Webstix

Great – we’re glad to have you as a web hosting client. Here is what we need to start setting things up: Contact Information – The

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Tony Herman January 3, 2011

Non-Webstix Website Hosting

I Do Not Wish to Have Webstix Host My Website. What Do I Need to Provide?

Most of the websites we create use PHP

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Tony Herman February 9, 2010

Website Images

What to Know About Photos and Images for Your Website

Probably the most complex task about owning and running a website is working with images. You need your website to load quickly and work well on

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Tony Herman April 13, 2012

Finding Images for Your Website

When building a web page for your website, how it’s laid out is important. More importantly, you need to have good images but how do you

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Tony Herman June 6, 2011

Web Images to Print Images Conversion

Converting Images / Designs from a Web Format to a Print Format

If you need your images that we’ve designed for your

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Tony Herman February 16, 2010

Website Video

HTML5 Video and Your Website

Getting Video Onto Your Website Video is great. You can say a lot with video and because there’s sight and sound, you can better create an

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Tony Herman July 15, 2015

How to Turn Off Suggested Videos With YouTube

YouTube Suggested Videos Show at the End of the Video If you have embedded YouTube videos on your website, you’re enjoying the benefits of everyone being

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Tony Herman October 23, 2014

Using YouTube Videos on Your Website

Post Videos on YouTube or Host Videos Yourself? Having videos on your website is a good idea. Well made videos can clearly explain your products or

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Tony Herman April 4, 2011

WordPress Help

How to Give Admin Access to Webstix on WordPress

Add a New User on WordPress Adding more users to your WordPress website is an essential task for business owners who want to collaborate with a

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Tony Herman March 3, 2023

Set Up Sales Tax Collection in WooCommerce

WooCommerce has a guide on how to set up automatic sales tax collection here: Setting up Taxes in WooCommerce (docs.woocommerce.com)

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Tony Herman May 13, 2019

WooCommerce Manuals, Documentation and Training

Many websites we build now for our clients use WooCommerce inside WordPress. It’s popular e-commerce software and work well. It works so well that WordPress actually

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Tony Herman February 15, 2018

Uploading Images to WordPress Can Take Up Too Much Space

Be Careful Uploading Images to WordPress What WordPress does is create several images for each image you upload. They might be sizes like 600 pixels wide,

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Tony Herman April 4, 2017

NextGen Photo Gallery Tutorials

Here are some video tutorials that explain how to add/edit/manage NextGen galleries in your website: 1. Adding Images and Managing Galleries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZWtks0hW3c 2. NextGen Gallery –

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Tony Herman March 14, 2016

WordPress Tutorials

WordPress Training and Video Tutorials There is a lot of training and help for WordPress online by just doing some searches but here are some resources

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Tony Herman September 28, 2015

WordPress Pages vs. Posts

What is the Difference Between a WordPress Page and Post? In WordPress, you can publish either using posts or pages. It might be confusing which one

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Tony Herman May 9, 2014

Upgrading WordPress

What to Know When a WordPress Upgrade Comes Out At Webstix, we keep up on when upgrades to software come out. It’s, of course, important to

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Tony Herman January 22, 2013