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Our team of WordPress experts regularly publish WordPress focused articles as well as covering tips and tricks for SEO and digital marketing.

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Web Site Statistics: Understand Your Site’s Performance

This post is the first in a series to help web site owner understand and use web site statistics.

Why specialise in wordpress?

It is true, here at The DMA we love WordPress. We use it for 100% of our own web site properties, and we also use it exclusively for our client work. So, what is it? WordPress started life as a blogging tool but now it is very well regarded as a complete content management system,…

Designing for wordpress? – Part II

If you have arrived here without reading part 1, you might like to start there. In this post we look at the functionality that is available with wordpress plugins so that when you’re designing for wordpress you have more of an idea of what is possible and what to include in your design that is…

Designing for wordpress?

While wordpress is very flexible it’s worth having a few things in your mind when doing the site design. We commonly work with external graphic designers who are working for one of our clients or come to us directly to build a wordpress theme for a site they are creating. We have been providing for a…

WordPress post excerpts and custom fields

Here’s a quick tip for our WordPress users. There is a little change in WordPress 3.1 that we found out about today and rather than thinking you’ve gone mad we thought we’d share the solution. I’ve just spent 2 days looking for the missing excerpts and custom fields sections that I use quiet a bit…

Will the Google changes affect your site ?

Google is well known for constantly, and secretly, making tweaks to the algorithm that returns the page of search engine results. This algorithm analyses the text you have entered, looks at the keywords, and returns a page of content (and paid advertisements from Google AdWords).  They make these changes to return the best quality search results…

New “Off the Shelf” Themes

We’ve launched this new service for people who’d like to choose a ready made theme, have it setup and hosted – “Off the Shelf” themes can have you up and running right away!

What Can Social Media Do For Your Business?

There is so much talk about social media in the business world. Whether you are on Facebook or keeping your ears on the tweets within your network, or keeping an eye on your favourite Youtube channel, social media is making waves all over the internet. Big brands like Coca Cola, Starbucks, Zappos are investing a…

Travel With Kidz gets the DMA treatment

We are very proud to be working with the Travel With Kidz travel company. Headquartered in Mosman Sydney, the group have branches all around Australia and focus family holidays. As well as working with TWK to setup and execute a social media program we have also done a great blog customisation. It’s common when we…

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How to Tag Your Friends on Facebook

This short tutorial get you started with Facebook Tags. Learn how to use this new feature to bring more interaction to your Facebook Posts.

Google Places: Have you claimed your business listing?

Google Places is relatively new, read here more about this new google tool and how it effects your business.

Facebook Places vs Foursquare

  Facebook Places arrived for Australian users on 30 September, with an up-dated iPhone and mobile website. While it may be dismissed as a Foursquare copy – there are some similarities and differences, which I’ll consider from the point of view of a restaurant or pub (bar) manager when considering how you can leverage these…