Add a blog to your homepage
Creating a blog is simple - this tutorial outlines the first steps you’ll take when you make a blog.
Once you’ve enabled your blog, you can promote blog content right on the homepage of your website in two ways: either by adding blog posts to your existing homepage content or by replacing the content of your homepage with that of your blog homepage.
What’s the difference between the two approaches?
Content strategy matters especially for the holidays!
As we talked about in our last article, the Christmas season is fast approaching and you need to prep your site now. Whether you want to pretend it isn’t happening or deck out your online activities to celebrate the winter season, for marketers of any kind you will want to mention the holidays to be relevant, capitalize, and show some personality.
VersionPLUS Giveaway! Participate now and win
Let’s start this year off right. No the year didn’t start the 1st of January contrary to common belief ;) Here at emyspot we wanted to do a giveaway as Hanna, our wonderful intern, will be leaving us at the end of the month, and she wanted to leave off her year with giveaway. Of course, we said yes!
We have new share buttons! As you know, share buttons are one of these free plugins available on your manager. We care about the interactivity of your website so we made them more modern and more visible to encourage sharing and stuff! See how they look:
How to capitalise on the holidays
Oh Christmas, the most spectacular period of the year and the most lucrative, if you are an E-commerce website owner of course. Although it may seem a little early to start talking about the holidays, it is never too early to start preparing your site for the holiday season.
Create a website on emyspot with a few simple clicks. It is easy and free! All you need to do is choose the URL, select a theme and then activate the add-ons as you need. If you are like me, you enjoy a detailed breakdown of the process. So watch the video below as we guide you through the first steps of building your website.
Make a bed and breakfast website work for you
Increasing the visibility of any business helps attract new clients, and if you have a bed and breakfast, you’ll already know how important it is to get out there and advertise, through brochures, accommodation directories, tourist information centers and a website. To help guests through the front door, they’ll need to know what to expect before they arrive, and whether you’re the kind of person they can relate to and connect with; after all, those connections are at the heart of every BnB.
Discover the Smart theme: a mobile first theme!
Nowadays having a responsive theme for your website is essential, this is why all our themes are responsive. Our latest one, the Smart, is responsive and even better: it's mobile first! Which means it has been designed to be displayed on all devices from smartphone to computer screen. It's offered in beta test version during the summer for webmasters who want to test it and the final version of the Smart theme will be available to all in September!
Attention Google map users get your API Key now!
After Google Maps has changed their Terms of Sale, you will now need to indicate an API key in order to display Google maps on your site. Let's see how easy it is to integrate your API key and help your site visitors find out where you are with all the advantages of Google maps !
Download here! Use the download widget
Propose files for download - it's easy. You can upload files such as spreadsheets, Word documents, or PDFs (Portable Document Files) — with the simple widget and your site's visitors can click a button to download that document for offline use. We have also have a new tutorial that explains offering downloadable files to site visitor's in detail.
8 tips to create a user-friendly navigation menu
The menu is fundamental for your website and necessary for an optimal user experience. It's one of the first thing the visitor will see and it determines the way visitors navigate your site. There is one thing you need to focus on when you create your menu: usability (and also aesthetics but that should be considered after usability)!