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Shopify Tutorial: How to add a ‘Recent Posts’ list

By Dillon
04.03.2010 2

How to create Recent Posts list in Shopify

Shopify is the e-commerce platform that we recommend to 9 out of 10 of our clients. We recommend Shopify to small businesses because it’s cheap, simple to use and easy to maintain.

Check out the Shopify website for more details and contact Morning Copy if you would like our help designing your Shopify website.

That being said, this tutorial has nothing to with the e-commerce side of Shopify!

Instead, in this tutorial we’ll show you how to create a Recent Posts list for your Shopify website. MORE »

Writing for web and SEO

By Christie
10.01.2010 3

Writing for Web

There has been countless posts on writing for the web, but it generally seems that copywriters (and designers, for that matter) know very little about SEO.

We’ve seen it many times: a company writes their own content or hires a copywriter. They might also hire a designer for a new site. Both the copywriter and the designer completely ignore SEO (or aren’t aware of it to begin with), and the client ends up with an incomplete product that will need to be optimised later.

At Morning Copy we offer SEO services for clients in all industries. However: onsite SEO is included in every design and copywriting project we complete – because there really is no point doing something twice!

We’ll revisit designing for SEO in the future, so here are some thoughts on SEO and copywriting. MORE »

Google Forms Update

By Dillon
16.08.2009 20

Last Friday, Google made a slight change to its Google Forms.

The code change affects all forms that use the Google Forms Confirmation redirect solution in our popular How To Style Google Forms tutorial.

Don’t worry if your form is broken because it should take you just a minute to fix it. MORE »

Optimise your site for search engines: the basics

By Christie
06.08.2009 0

Sites typically spend most of their time developing off-site SEO strategies such as building backlinks through exchanges and social media. While this is one of the most important aspects of SEO, it’s crucial not to overlook optimising through on-site practices.

As we’ve seen with numerous clients, a site can still suffer in the search engines if it’s not well optimised; despite having a large number of backlinks. Typically, they’ve spent all their time building links and forgotten the basics! MORE »