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Scottish Saunas Website Launch
Custom WordPress Website for Scottish Sauna Company We’re excited to announce the launch of the new website for...
Transitioning Intend EU from Umbraco to WordPress
New WordPress website for Intend EU We are delighted to unveil the newly revamped website for Intend EU a complete...
New website for Hayley Mathews Art
New WordPress and Woocommerce website for Hayley Mathews Art We are thrilled to announce the launch of a captivating...
WP Engine Vs Automattic
You might want some popcorn for this post The recent conflict between WP Engine and Automattic, the parent company of...
Unveiling DIVI 5
The DIVI Theme & Page Builder DIVI has established itself as a cornerstone within the WordPress ecosystem and DIVI...
Why Business Owners Should Invest in a Personal Brand
Learning from the Gary Vaynerchuk Phenomenon When we think of well-known brands, big corporate entities like Apple,...
Launching Clear Detail: Your Ultimate Guide to Web Essentials
Invaluable information for business looking to create an online presence In today's digital age, establishing a solid...
New website for Health & Wellbeing Coach
We recently launched a brand new website for Joanna Marie Nodes and her Mental Health & Wellbeing Coaching...
3 ways to make your business mobile-friendly.
Responsive Digital Marketing for customers using their mobile phones. Mobile phones have come a long way since Nokia...
What Can A Professional Web Designer Do That I Can’t?
What can a professional web designer do that I can’t? Creating a website can be a big deal as it is going to be on of...
Why Isn’t Anyone Coming to My Website?
Website is not SEO optimised Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is the practice of putting keywords throughout your...
How Often Should I Redesign My Website?
How often should I redesign my website? When you are looking to redesign your website, you are giving yourself an...
WordPress 5.9 Josephine Update
Starting off the new Year WordPress have released a long-awaited update providing full site editing features giving...
8 Signs it’s Time to Update your Website
Why Should you keep your Website Update to Date? Having a website is one of the most beneficial to improve your...
Choosing the Right Social Media Platform for your Business
Social media has become one of the most necessary marketing tools out there if you are looking to keep your business...
Portal Technologies 2021 Christmas Opening hours
Christmas and New Year Opening Hours 2021 - 2022With the holidays fast approaching, we want to remind our customers of...
What is Digital Marketing?
Digital Marketing can include marketing techniques such as search result ads, email ads and any other forms of...
What is Pay-Per-Click Advertising
What is PPC (Pay-Per-Click) and how does it work? PPC or Pay Per Click Advertising allows you to advertise your...
Adding Google Analytics to WordPress
If you own a website, you are probably wondering, "who is viewing my website" or "who is my website reaching". Well,...
Useful CSS snippets for the DIVI theme
The DIVI page builder is rather good Here at Portal Creative we like to build websites using WordPress. When we...
When WordPress plugins go bad
When we're building a WordPress website we like to use plugins. Plugins allow us to add a specific functionality to a...
Why choose WooCommerce for eCommerce
What is an eCommerce platform? Put in simple terms eCommerce is the selling and buying of good or services via the...
How to Improve your Website’s Security
If you are a small business owner, you need to ensure that your website is secure and to not just forget about your...
Why Web Developers should use Divi
Since I started my career in Web Development I have been learning about and using Divi Visual Builder. The reason for...
Ladies and gentlemen… the weekend
Lessons from a Twitter account that posts the same tweet once a week The answer is a lot if you're willing to look for...
Which is better Squarespace or WordPress?
WordPress and Squarespace are two of the world’s leading web building platforms but deciding between the two can be...
Choosing the right Web Hosting Provider
Whether you are a business owner, web developer or marketer, you will want people to visit your website. This means...
Portal Creates… new social media accounts.
Portal Creative has created new social media accounts under the handle of @PortalCreates. The move is to continue to...
Portal Creative in Review
As 2020 comes to an end, I felt it would be appropriate time to thank everyone for their support over what has been a...
Portal Creative Christmas Opening Times
Christmas and New Year Opening Hours With the holidays fast approaching, we want to remind our customers of our...
Portal Creative move to Stirling
Portal Creative is moving to the city of Stirling. As Steve Clarke was providing a team talk to inspire Scotland to...
WordPress 5.4 Adderley Update
New exciting features coming in Adderley: Highlights This new update to WordPress sees more improvement to the block...
What is Content Marketing?
What is Content Marketing? This is content marketing! By creating a blog and giving your business a voice you build...
Gzip And Set Expiry Dates Of Files With .htaccess
We've been using one and one as our web host for a good few years now, we've got a couple of older servers which run...
Embed a Twitter feed on your website
A few years ago Twitter closed it's API off meaning that if you're looking to embed a Twitter feed on your site then...
Google is now favouring SSL Certificates on all Websites
Over the last few years there has been a push to move websites from the standard HTTP protocol to the secure HTTPS...
WordPress 5.3 Kirk Update
New exciting features coming in Kirk: Highlights With this new update WordPress have refined the block editor that was...
Mobile Web Design Best Practices
Mobile Web Design Best Practices for a Mobile First World Over the last decade, mobile phones have become an essential...
Local SEO Guide for Beginners
If you own a physical store, then listen up. Local SEO is a powerful tactic for users to find stores in and around...
The benefits of WordPress
We've been advocates of the WordPress Content Management System for many years. It provides our clients with an easy...
How to Make Google Love You
After being invited out to Prague to speak at an ABC Practioners conference we wanted to share with you some of the...
WordPress 5.0 Gutenberg Update
WordPress 5.0 Gutenberg Update brings a new page and post editor to WordPress which promises to revolutionise the way...
How to choose a web design company
How to choose a web design company Choosing a web design company is an important decision so here are some keys tips...
How to make social media work for small businesses
How to make Social Media Work for Small Businesses Does this sound familiar? “I know I should be on social media but I...
HTTP vs HTTPS
Securing your site with SSL Over the last few years there has been a push to move websites from the standard HTTP...
Questions to ask your Web Designer
Unfortunately this is something we are coming across more when meeting new clients – usually small businesses. They...
5 Tips to Use LinkedIn Efficiently
LinkedIn was launched in 2002 and 14 years on people are still struggling to utilise the social media tool to its full...
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