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Transform Your Wedding Planning with a Wed-Site and Evite to your guests for your BIG DAY!
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WEDDING INVITATION E-VITE
The planning gets a lot more organized by doing an automated E-vite, the new type of wedding invitations!
Couples spend many hours and thousands of rands on arranging their wedding.
This includes hiring a wedding planner, venue costs, organizing the party, choosing songs, finding a photographer, making and sending invites and so on.
It costs a lot and takes up an exorbitant amount of time.
However, technology has finally caught up with the wedding industry to make things easier.
Wedding websites or “wedsites” are web pages that become a bride and groom’s best friend in helping the process of planning their wedding day.
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A wedding website is a hub for information and you can include as much detail as you wish.
Your website can be used to tell your special story.
It can also relay important details and updates.
Collate RSVP’s, incorporate a gift registry, wedding song ideas and photographs from the big day.
It's Never Too Early To Start!
You can tell your story and personalize it:
A wedding website is an opportunity for you to tell your story. You can tell the touching story of how you met your significant other. Or how the proposal happened, and how you are getting ready to tie the knot. You can include a beautiful interactive story which shares your love through pictures and slideshows. This will allow you to celebrate your love and create a buzz. You also have the opportunity to completely personalize your website as you can choose from a range of wedding themes to find the one that suits your style as a couple and sets the tone for your wedding.
Important details and updates:
A wedding website is made to make your life easier. You can post all of the important information for your wedding day in one online, easy to find place. No more fielding last minute calls from guests who have misplaced their invitations. All of the key information such as date, venue, dress-code, and reception details as well as additional helpful hints. For example accommodation in the nearby vicinity can be placed in one central easy to find page. You can even add a personal touch by making it interactive with maps to the venue and nearby hotels.
Last minute changes:
A wedding website is made to make your life easier. You can post all of the important information for your wedding day in one online, easy to find place. No more fielding last minute calls from guests who have misplaced their invitations. All of the key information such as date, venue, dress-code, and reception details as well as additional helpful hints. For example accommodation in the nearby vicinity can be placed in one central easy to find page. You can even add a personal touch by making it interactive with maps to the venue and nearby hotels.
Wedding Invitations & RSVP:
With a website, you can manage your wedding invitations, guest information, and RSVPs in a single space.
The world is moving online and so should your wedding. You can send your beautifully designed custom e-invites to your guests and incorporate a page for them to RSVP. Your guest can respond with their plus one information and dietary requirements giving you all the information you need for catering and planning in one place. Now you can simply send this information to the venue, plan your seating chart online, and inform the caterer accurately of special requirements. Further, this feature actually saves you money as printing and mailing costs become a thing of the past and you do your bit to save paper. It also prevents pesky incidents of invites getting “lost” in the mail.
Gift Registry:
No one likes getting useless gifts or three of the same Carrol Boyes serving spoons. The solution to this is not revolutionary as it is common for the happy couple to get a gift registry for their wedding. A wedding website, however makes this even simpler for you and your guests. Your “wedsite” will allow you to have links to the various stores or online stores where you have created a gift registry. This makes it child’s play for your guests to find the correct shade of blue you wanted for your lampshades. or even shop for your gift online saving them time and preventing you from receiving an unwanted gift.
Save You Time and Money:
By getting a website made you won’t be spending money on designing, printing and mailing invites out to your wedding guests. If you opt for a wedding planner, you will need less time with them as you can sort out many things independently. You can also save a lot of time (and stress) on being able to communicate with the entire list of guests via one central platform rather than having to get in contact with each guest independently and still making them feel special.
Eco-Friendly:
By getting a website made you won’t be spending money on designing, printing and mailing invites out to your wedding guests. If you opt for a wedding planner, you will need less time with them as you can sort out many things independently. You can also save a lot of time (and stress) on being able to communicate with the entire list of guests via one central platform rather than having to get in contact with each guest independently and still making them feel special.
So, let’s get to your options;
Wedding Packages
Peace of Mind (One pager)
This option is short and sweet and super user friendly. It consists of only one page scrolling down to different sections.
Client to supply high resolution photos, wedding details and text. Available via Nerette Botha.
starting at
R 1650
Every Step of the Way (Up to four individual pages)
Here we have a bit mor functionality and options available.
This design includes up to four individual pages filled with all the info you may want to add. The estimate price for this is always between R 2999 to R 3500. Price varies on add-ons selected.
starting at
R 2999
We make sure to add on the responsive view to ensure that your website is flexible enough to work across all the latest mobile platforms.
You can also personalize your domain and add an additional R140/month payable to Intellihost if you register with Glixie Media, a proud Wolfpack Partner.
Save The Date / Digital Invite is a MUST HAVE in this setup. A design will cost you R650 and we can send it out via email to click through to your new “wedsite”.
Keep your site live forever with photo uploads after the wedding, or anniversary blogs. Get your guests to subscribe to your own yearly newsletter with vacation or any updates.
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Website Audit Checklist – Service offered by Glixie Media for Optimization of existing sites
Site audit checklist
Based on the provided search results, here is a comprehensive site audit checklist:
Domain Factors
- Domain Name: Verify the domain name and its registration details.
- Domain Age: Check the domain age and its impact on SEO.
- Domain History: Review the domain’s history, including any previous owners or notable changes.
- Other Domain Factors: Evaluate other domain-related factors, such as domain extensions, subdomains, and parked domains.
Page-Level Factors
- E-A-T: Assess the expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness of the content creators.
- Headlines: Review headlines for relevance, accuracy, and optimization.
- Keyword Cannibalization: Identify and address potential keyword cannibalization issues.
- User Engagement: Evaluate user engagement metrics, such as bounce rates and time on page.
- Content Length: Assess the optimal content length for each page.
Content Factors
- Schema Markup: Verify the presence and accuracy of schema markup.
- Site Architecture: Review the site’s architecture and navigation.
- Organic Click-Through Rate (CTR): Evaluate the CTR for each page.
- Content Organization: Assess the organization and hierarchy of content.
Technical SEO Factors
- Crawlability: Verify that the website is crawlable by search engines.
- Indexing: Check the website’s indexing status and identify any issues.
- Robots.txt: Review and optimize the robots.txt file.
- Sitemaps: Verify the presence and accuracy of sitemaps.
- Image Optimization: Evaluate image optimization, including file names, alt tags, and compression.
- Website Updates: Monitor ongoing website changes and identify potential issues.
Link Profile Audit
- Link Acquisition: Evaluate the quality and relevance of incoming links.
- Link Disavowal: Identify and disavow toxic or spammy links.
- Link Building: Assess the website’s link building strategy and opportunities.
On-Site Technical SEO Factors
- Page Speed: Evaluate page speed and optimize for faster loading times.
- Mobile-Friendliness: Verify mobile-friendliness and ensure a responsive design.
- SSL Encryption: Check the presence and configuration of SSL encryption.
Additional Tips
- Regular Website Audits: Schedule regular website audits to identify and address issues proactively.
- Professional SEO Tools: Utilize professional SEO tools, such as Ahrefs or Semrush, to streamline the audit process.
By following this comprehensive site audit checklist, you’ll be able to identify and address various technical, content, and link-related issues, ultimately improving your website’s SEO and search engine rankings.
EXPLANATION OF TERMS USED AS IN VIDEO ABOVE;
My Site Audit Checklist explaining the following steps I will analyze this service is requested.
Robots.txt Explanation:
A search engine bot views the Robot.txt file before crawling a site. It gives directives on how to crawl (or not crawl) the website. For one, it contains instructions about folders or pages to omit and other critical instructions. As a good practice, it should also link to the XML sitemap so the bot can find a list of the most important URLs.
XML sitemap Explanation:
Live list of all the pages on the sites; best practice for Google to maintain a record of pages on the site.
HTTPS Explanation:
For “secure” sites, Google Chrome shows if a site is “secure” or “https” with green lettering a lock image in the address bar.
Mobile Friendly Explanation:
More than 50% of searches come from mobile and Google takes how the website looks on mobile into consideration.
Page Speed Explanation:
Google has found searchers prefer fast websites. Page speed improvements can lead directly to improved visibility on Google.
SEO Tag Health Check Explanation:
A series of “tags” should appear in the section of the website so that Google can properly “index” the website. These include: title, description, canonical, robots.
Crawling Explanation:
Google crawls the web with bots, executing links. It’s important to code the site in a way to make the content accessible. Overuse of JavaScript, broke links, or requiring user action to reveal content are some of the ways that disrupt crawling.
Rendering Explanation:
How Google displays the content on the site.
Indexing Explanation:
Once Google crawls and discovers pages it stores them in its index.
On-Page Optimization Explanation:
The extent that the site utilizes keywords in key on-page areas, like meta and header tags, and content. Keyword research is a prerequisite to this step so you know what you’re targeting.
Relevance Explanation:
Supporting content on category pages help searchers learn more about the product and help choose the best available product for their needs. Consider the user experience of the person coming in from the targeted keywords.
Schema.org Explanation:
Code that gives semantic meaning to the content, e.g. a telephone number, or a “product.” In certain instances Google uses this code to enrich a search listing with Star ratings, event info, etc.
Faceted Navigation Explanation:
For catalog sites, how filter/sort functions are presented.
Accessibility Explanation:
Alt images, text not images, progressive enhancement principles.
Authority Content Explanation:
Content that helps build authority on the topic. Targeted “how to” “best” or “tips” content. Attract searchers during all phases of the “customer journey.”
For catalog sites, how filter/sort functions are presented.
Accessibility Explanation:
Alt images, text not images, progressive enhancement principles.
Authority Content Explanation:
Content that helps build authority on the topic. Targeted “how to” “best” or “tips” content. Attract searchers during all phases of the “customer journey.”
What is NAP in Local SEO? Google N.A.P. Setup by Glixie Media
What is NAP in Local SEO?
NAP is an acronym for Name, Address, and Phone number. The NAP for your business needs to be correct and consistent when optimizing your website and online presence for local search because Google values accurate information for its users.
Why is NAP important for Local SEO?
Having correct NAP for all your listings across the internet is crucial for local SEO. Google scans all these listings when searching for information about your business. The data is stored and used when determining ranking. Incorrect information in NAP citations can lead to confusion for customers and a poor user experience.
What problems can arise if incorrect NAP listings are published?
Google values consistency in your listings. When all your listings say the same thing, Google can confidently display your contact information to customers on applicable queries. When the search engine finds discrepancies in the listings, then it is not sure of the information. Since incorrect information can lead to a poor user experience, differences in NAP between your listings can cause lower rankings.
A study was conducted by Wesley Young to see how much different factors impacted local search performance. He found that that consistency of the NAP could impact a site’s performance by as much as 16 percent.
How do I create NAP SEO?
- Make sure this critical information is displayed prominently on your website so that it can be easily read by your customers and by Google. Make sure the information is text and not an image so that Google can scan the information.
- Claim your Google My Business listings and make sure to update it with the correct NAP information.
- Use Google to uncover potentially incorrect listings. You can use Google site operators, such as site:yelp.com “my business” to search specific directories or you can search for your phone number, address, or business name.
- Use a resource, like this compilation of important listing sites, to get started correcting incorrect listings.
- Keep a record of all your listings so you can quickly correct this information if you ever change your business’ phone number or address.
NAP can have an enormous impact on businesses because it gives customers easy access to the most critical information about your brand. Take the time to make sure your listings are accurate to avoid potential problems in local SERPs.
Who Owns My Website? Ownership and Terminology
“I want to own my website” Sooner or later, every web design company needs to address this request. Simple as it sounds, it really is complicated. A website is built with many assembled parts and you may be surprised to learn who legally owns each part.
The following website terminology is a guide of what you really own and what you’re really just leasing.
Web Server – You Don’t Typically Own This
The computer running the Web Server Platform that hosts your website.
- For most, hosting services opens a new window. The data center owns your web server and leases it to you or your web vendor.
- Obviously, you will own your website server if you purchase one, but this is usually cost prohibitive to maintain.
Web Server Platform – You Don’t Own This
This is the system software running on the server. Common examples include LAMP (Linux Apache MySql PHP), Windows IIS + ASP.NET, and Microsoft SQL Server.
- You will never own this.
Content Management System (CMS) – You Don’t Own This
A Web Application that is used to manage the administration of content for your website. Examples include WordPress, Drupal, and Shopify.
- You only own your CMS if you author your own source code and wrote it yourself. This is common to all software. Unless you’re a software company, you don’t own any software on any computer.
- The CMS (and all software) is owned by the respective creators and licensed to you.
- Custom programming written on top of a Website Platform might be something you can own. This gets complicated with Open-Source platforms due to the GNU General Public License.
Database Software – You Don’t Own This
Common examples include MySql, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access.
- You will never own the actual database.
- You own your website data and content stored in the database if you author it.
Source Code (other custom programming) – You Don’t Typically Own This
The programmed code created in the language of the Web Server Platform that contains the logic and connectors to other software running on the server. Source code may also communicate with outside integrated system servers. The source code will generate the HTML/CSS/Javascript for the browser to render to your screen.
- You will own your website source code if you or your employee authors it.
- Otherwise, it is owned by the creator and licensed to you.
- “Work for hire” could be specified in the agreement to ensure you own the website source code upon completion and final payment of the project. This gets complicated with proprietary and Open-Source platforms due to Intellectual Property and the GNU General Public License.
- “Control” of the source code is usually the critical concern with contracting custom development and is usually amenable by using an open-source platform.
HTML/CSS/Javascript – You Should Own This
HTML and CSS are the building blocks of almost all websites. It is a language that browsers understand. The Javascript is programming that may alter the HTML and CSS as one interacts with the website.
- The website creator should provide an agreement giving HTML/CSS/Javascript ownership to you upon completion and final payment of the project.
- Otherwise, unless you or your employees authored it, it is owned by the website creator and licensed to you.
Visual Design – You Should Own This
The combination of layout and presentable graphical assets like colors, photography and typography to create the user interface, images and videos, and readable content of the website. The HTML/CSS/Javascript will contain the information to display these assets so the browser can render the website on your screen.
- The website creator should provide an agreement giving website visual design ownership to you upon completion and final payment of the project.
- Otherwise, unless you or your employee created the designs, it is owned by the creator and licensed to you.
Text Content – You Own This
The formatted, readable, search engine indexable, copy and pastable website text that is rendered in the browser.
- You will own your website text content if you or your employee authors the content.
- Otherwise, the creator of the website is the legal “author” of the website text content.
- The website creator should provide an agreement giving website content ownership to you upon completion and final payment of the project.
Photography – You Own This… If You Took The Pictures
The entire or part of a digitized photograph used on a website as either part of the logo, user interface, slideshow, gallery, video or other visual design asset.
- You will own your website photography if you or your employee captures the photographs
- Otherwise, you are only given a license to others’ photography. Keep a record of that license.
Browser – You Don’t Own This
A browser is the computer software we use to look at websites. Examples are Internet Explorer, Safari, Chrome, Firefox and Opera. A browser will display the rendered website which includes the HTML/CSS/Javascript and all visual design assets.
- You will never own this.
Domain Name – You Don’t Own This Either. Surprised?
The Domain Name appears in the address bar of the browser. It is the humanly memorable, identifiable part of the website URL that is indexed by search engines, displayed in most marketing, and remembered as part of the brand.
- You do not actually own a domain name even though you are a registered domain owner.
- You have a contract with the domain registrar giving you “ownership” of the domain much like a contract with a telephone company for a phone number.
- From Wikipedia: “…domain name registration with a registrar does not confer any legal ownership of the domain name, only an exclusive right of use.”
The Legal Reality of Owning a Website
- You will never legally own the domain name, web server platform, CMS, web platform, database software, or language used to build your website.
- You will usually never own the web server that hosts your website.
- You are be granted a license to use the Intellectual Property of the website creator and/or the web platform used to build it.
- Only if you program the website yourself or have a “work for hire” agreement, you will own the website source code.
- If you author your own content, design the interface, take your own photographs, and create your own graphics, you will own all of the website “visual design” and content.
Own Your Website “Finished Assembled Work”
The website terminology that matters most is the “finished assembled work.” I define this as the HTML/CSS/Javascript, visual design, and the text content that is rendered by the Browser. The entirety of finished assembled work can be saved and stored by you, and can be rebuilt with any website platform. Look for contractual terms defining “finished assembled work” and stating you own the website “finished assembled work” upon completion and final payment of the project.
Article via: Barrett Lombardo, Co-Founder / Chief Operating Officer of Orbit Media Studios
Barrett Lombardo is the Co-Founder and COO at Orbit Media Studios. Barrett has been developing websites since 1995.
