These guides cover what a small business needs to know to put a website up, whichever builder it uses: choosing a domain, writing the home page, pictures, taking card payments, being found on Google, and cookies and privacy. Each ends with how miow does it, linked to the how-to.
Guides
- Choose and buy a domain nameA domain name is a website's address, such as yourbusiness.co.uk. You rent it by the year from a company called a registrar, and it stays yours for as long as…
- Cookies and privacyUK law asks two things of a business website that collects anything about the people who use it: to ask before setting cookies it does not need, and to tell…
- Get a website found on GoogleGoogle finds a website by following links to it and by reading the list of pages the website publishes, called a sitemap.
- Pictures for a websiteThe pictures on a small business's website should be its own: the work, the premises, the products and the people.
- Take card payments on a websiteA website takes card payments through a payment company, such as Stripe, PayPal or Square, which takes the card details, checks them with the bank, and pays…
- Write a home pageA home page tells a visitor, in its first heading and sentence, what the business does, for whom and where.