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12 things I learned from managing a charity website
I ran a charity website (and indeed whole digital department) for six years (for War Child). I had come from a communications background (at Comic Relief) and was reasonably IT literate, but had never...
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Tips for building your own charity website using WordPress
If you’re adventurous enough to want to build your own WordPress charity website (or maybe you just haven’t got the money to invest in an agency/freelancer to do it for you) then here’s my quick guide...
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Copywriting Tips: The 13 rules I learnt when I first got paid to write
It’s October 2005. I’m sat in one of the country’s most-revered charities, clutching my first ever copywriting brief. Two hours in, it’s Blank Screen 1: Copywriter 0. I’d been working at Comic Relief...
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Tips for creating case studies for your charity website
Don’t call them ‘case studies’ in any public-facing materials I hope that’s obvious, but I’ll say it just in case. ‘Case studies’ are things in your M&E reports. They sound clinical and they bring...
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Charity website SEO tips – Analysing the Meta Titles of 100 top charities
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is one of those things that as website owners/managers we’re aware of, and we know that it is important, but often don’t know what exactly is it and how do you do it?...
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Top 100 charity website designs in 2019
This is a follow up to a previous post looking at the top charity websites in 2018. Again I’ve created this screenshot gallery so you can see them side by side, and I’ve made some attempt to group...
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Analysing the Best Charity Websites 2018 – a look at the top 100 UK charity...
When thinking about (re)designing your charity website it’s natural to have a look at what other charities have done in order to spark some ideas and inspiration. And in particular it’s useful to see...
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Charity web design – should you copy what other charities are doing?
In a recent blog post I had a look at the top 100 charity websites and the common features that many of them share. Why is it that the charity sector is so diverse, yet our websites tend to look so...
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I ran a charity website (and indeed whole digital department) for six years (for War Child). I had come from a communications background (at Comic Relief) and was reasonably IT literate, but had never...
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Tips for building your own charity website using WordPress
If you’re adventurous enough to want to build your own WordPress charity website (or maybe you just haven’t got the money to invest in an agency/freelancer to do it for you) then here’s my quick guide...
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Copywriting Tips: The 13 rules I learnt when I first got paid to write
It’s October 2005. I’m sat in one of the country’s most-revered charities, clutching my first ever copywriting brief. Two hours in, it’s Blank Screen 1: Copywriter 0. I’d been working at Comic Relief...
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Tips for creating case studies for your charity website
Don’t call them ‘case studies’ in any public-facing materials I hope that’s obvious, but I’ll say it just in case. ‘Case studies’ are things in your M&E reports. They sound clinical and they bring...
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Charity website SEO tips – Analysing the Meta Titles of 100 top charities
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is one of those things that as website owners/managers we’re aware of, and we know that it is important, but often don’t know what exactly is it and how do you do it?...
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Top 100 charity website designs in 2019
This is a follow up to a previous post looking at the top charity websites in 2018. Again I’ve created this screenshot gallery so you can see them side by side, and I’ve made some attempt to group...
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Should you make a ‘static’ version of your old WordPress site?
I love WordPress and use it every day. But one of the issues with it is that you can’t just leave a WordPress site untendered for months or years without expecting security problems. It’s important to...
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Emergency / Low bandwidth charity websites
When emergency strikes you might find that your current website can’t handle the traffic that comes your way. Or you might want to create a new site that loads blazingly fast for anyone using even the...
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Using the WordPress block editor vs pagebuilder plugins
The WordPress ‘Block editor’ (known within the WP community as ‘Gutenberg’) has been around since the launch of WP v5 in January 2019. It’s fair to say that it divided opinion at the time, with many...
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The top 100 charity websites of 2022
I’ve made a couple of these posts in previous years and I’ve been through the websites of the top 100 charities (it’s a fairly arbitrary list based on the charities with the highest income at the...
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Finding/using stock library images for your charity website
They say a picture paints a thousand words and they can be an invaluable part of your website design and content. Photos can do a great job of portraying your work and conveying emotion. Some niches...
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Using AI to generate images for your charity website
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the big thing these days. According to some experts it’s coming for our jobs, and possibly leading to a Skynet style threat to our very existence. But it also has some...
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