July 2014
If you don’t have the expertise in-house to carry out design tasks here’s no doubt that enlisting a creative agency to help with your marketing strategies can pay dividends, but how can you be sure you’re taking on the...
July 2014
You’ve written your article, added your imagery and optimised it for search engines as best you can. Now all that’s left is to launch your mini-masterpiece onto the world wide web – what things should you take into consideration?...
July 2014
The WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor is a powerful tool that helps you manage and style the content on your website quickly and correctly. It comes with plenty of functionality but does have a few...
July 2014
10 Creative Direct Mail Campaigns Traditional direct mail often gets ruled as the ‘golden oldie’ of marketing, especially in this digital age where news is real-time, markets are crowded and content sharing is aspired to. Introducing yourself to ideal...
July 2014
One of the great things about using WordPress for your website is the wealth of plugins that are available. By using plugins you are able to expand WordPress’s functionality in the click of a button. I’m going to talk...
June 2014
Top Ten Branding Tips Branding is one of the most important aspects of a strong company when it comes to securing the goodwill and trust of your customers. Newcastle Branding Specialists Urban River provides Ten Branding Tips advising how...
June 2014
With major version releases scheduled every 3-4 months and small patches almost weekly, WordPress does a good job of keeping itself up to date. There are many reasons for this; some are for security reasons and others are for...
June 2014
The latest installment in our once-weekly WordPress series focuses on imagery, and gives a step-by-step guide on how to add them to your post. 1: Upload your image Once you have written your text content and added it to...
June 2014
Responsive web design is when a website automatically responds to the device your customers are using to view it. This means that whether your current and potential customers are browsing your website using their laptop, netbook, PC, tablet or...
June 2014
You may or may not be aware that WordPress comes bundled with its own basic image editing facilities. This week our WordPress Weekly blog is covering editing images in WordPress Any images which you use on your WordPress website...
June 2014
WordPress is the Urban River CMS (content management system) of choice and many agree with us; 20% of all websites created in the last 5 years have been built using it. It has a lot to offer as a...
April 2014
For this blog post we wanted to cover a few of the most common questions we get asked by e-commerce store owners. The following tips and advice are only the tips of the iceberg and it’s important to remember...