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Adobe Digital Index Q1 2012

LS Digital Media — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:42:25 +0000

Here is a great and concise infographic from Adobe which looks at the current market position in Digital in both the US and UK. Compared to growth in previous years, the YOY growth seems quite constrained and even CPCs on the Google network have fallen 5% over the last year. Check it out.

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How To Use WordPress

LS Digital Media — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:09:36 +0000

As a website publisher, there are two main areas of WordPress that you will want to focus on. These are creating pages and writing blog posts, known simply as posts.

Pages are used to set up the website structure as you want it to be. Typically you might have an ‘about us’ page, a ‘contact’ page, a ‘blog’ page, a ‘services’ section etc. In the case of ‘services’, you may have one menu heading with a drop down menu of further options, or ‘sub pages’. Organising the hierarchy and structure of pages will be covered in the tutorial below. Please note that some themes do not support drop down menus.

The Blog page is set up like a normal page but instead of showing content in the normal way, it can be configured to show a list of blog posts. Hover your cursor over Settings at the bottom of the left hand menu of options. Then select the third option down, ‘Reading’.

Set ‘Front Page Displays’ to ‘A Static Page’ and choose another page you have created for your homepage content. Then set Post Page to ‘Blog’ or whatever name you have used such as ‘Articles’.

More information about WordPress, how and why we use it at LS Digital Media can be found here: WordPress Sites.

How To Create A Page in WordPress

There are a couple of different ways to create a page in WordPress. You will probably get to know them both and choose which one you prefer to use when. Firstly, on the menu on the left hand side of the WordPress interface, the fourth section down is called ‘Pages’. If you hover your cursor over this heading, a flyout will pop out with two further options – ‘All Pages’ and ‘Add New’. Click on Add New.

The second way is simply to hover over the ‘+New’ option on the dark menu bar running across the top of the screen. Choose ‘Page’ from the drop down list of options:

How to remove comments from a page in WordPress.

Three Executive Office Telephone Number

LS Digital Media — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:00:30 +0000

Thanks to Stef for sharing the email address and phone number for the Three Mobile Executive Office. She got the details from the Communication Ombudsman.

Three Executive Office Email Address

Email: executive.office@three.co.uk

Three Executive Office Telephone Number

08433 733 330

As in all dealings with Three, we can only wish you the very best of luck.

Great Webmaster Advice

LS Digital Media — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:43:48 +0000

I am using the term ‘webmaster’ here to refer to anybody who is running a website. That would necessarily include all of our clients at LS Digital Media, and a great many besides. The thing is, when it comes to running a small and sometimes even a medium sized business, it is often the business provider who also ends up looking after the website.

Well, here we have put together (and will continue to do so), a range of interesting and useful materials to introduce some essential knowledge about running a website successfully.

Great Pinterest Infographic

LS Digital Media — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 11:16:13 +0000

Pinterest is the social network that seems to have come out of nowhere and is now the third largest on the net. For anybody interested in a really insightful overview of the platform, check out the infographic below. It will of particular interest to marketers and how to make the most of this emerging channel.