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The battle for social media supremacy is heating up with the acquisitions of rival social media platforms, the integration of neighbouring platforms features and new social networks being launched at a frequent rate.

Christmas is now approaching, and we are all thinking of the fun, relaxing time around friends and family. We want to ease the burden on you before the holiday period! Expert will help you set up, design and deliver a Christmas message to your clients, staff, or members with minimal effort and cost on your part.

Content is King. Coined by Bill Gates in the mid 90's, it is a more accurate and relevant statement in today's online world than ever before.

Too often we hear about businesses using open-source Content Management Systems from company's such as WordPress and Joomla, because their services are 'free' and 'easy to use'. This may be the case, but the price that those businesses pay in terms of a lack of information, data and website security, as well as fighting of hackers, costs them huge numbers in time, effort and expenses. 

It is important to define the most appropriate email option for you and your organisation. If you're with Expert, we provide you with several options to cater to your emailing needs.

Feel like you're getting the most out of MoST? Read on to find out about other available features and functionality that could really boost your business's performance.

SMEs are renowned for viewing social media in one of two ways; aplace to throw all their online eggs into the social media basket only for itto become another uncompleted chore, or avoiding social media all together.

The latest MYOB Business Monitor uncovers the untapped success that the majority of businesses are forgoing by not using internet and cloud technologies. The stats show users of these technologies are experiencing higher revenue streams, an increase in business and are paying their staff more.

With 8 out of 10 kiwis ''looking for local queries'' on Google and two thirds of New Zealand's small to medium sized businesses without a website, plenty of business is being soaked up by those who make their presence felt in the online arena.

Now, in partnership with Message Media, we have made it even simpler for you to communicate with your members, through automated SMS attendee reminders for all events.

When you use MoST as your content management system you have a wide range of file types that you are able to upload to your website. You can upload images such as jpegs and giff, files like word documents and PDF or you can upload movies and audio. This tutorial will show you how to upload & resize files, images & Multimedia.

With this new facility, clients on our “Membership” package are now able to have a custom designed email auto responder that goes out to any member who signs up to your database online.

Today marks the beginning of the 2012 New Zealand Cycle Classic around the Manawatu district for the next five days. We're backing Team Expert!

Website Design and Search Engine Optimisation are often at heads. While SEO aims to bring visitors in through search engines, high impact and efficient Web design is what keeps them coming back. How are these two factors best balanced for your online business?

There is a wide range of useful information present in website statistics packages, such as the AWSTATS package used in MoST advanced sites, and the Google analytics package.

Expert put together this clever example that we can all relate to, it should help everyone understand the software development process better and make it easier for you to get what you want out of your development or build.

To load YouTube clips and videos onto your website you will need to get some code from YouTube to place into the page you want it to play on your website. This Tutorial will show you how.

Picking your domain name is one the first steps in the website development process. A domain name is the text typed into web browsers for people to get your website.

At 2:36pm, Tuesday 9 August 2011, Central Wellington, through Mount Victoria, Newtown, and Oriental Bay suffered power cuts, resulting in homes and businesses being without power, as well as network outages for communication lines.

Selecting a Web Content Management System may seem like a complicated decision, but doesn’t have to be. With a good CMS, you don't need to know what PHP, .Net, MySQL, HTML, and CSS mean. That is what the CMS is for. Your job is to select something that will provide a strong return on investment while delivering business growth.

Selecting a Web Content Management System may seem like a complicated decision, but doesn’t have to be. With a good CMS, you don't need to know what PHP, .Net, MySQL, HTML, and CSS mean. That is what the CMS is for. Your job is to select something that will provide a strong return on investment while delivering business growth.

Selecting a Web Content Management System may seem like a complicated decision, but doesn’t have to be. With a good CMS, you don't need to know what PHP, .Net, MySQL, HTML, and CSS mean. That is what the CMS is for. Your job is to select something that will provide a strong return on investment while delivering business growth.

Our development team has been working around the clock to make sure all clients have a reliable, stable, easy to use system that just does what it should, and more. Changes to Document Collaboration are next. Let us know your thoughts

Social Media has become a huge marketing platform in recent years, and there is no doubt that Social Media can provide a great way of maintaining close relationships with your customer base, which are nurtured and developed over time.

We’ve all heard about the importance of keeping your content updated, but what about the design? Just like a well-dressed sales person, a website will speak of the professionalism of your organisation. Even if you are ‘preaching to the converted’ and the content is being maintained, if a site isn’t aesthetically pleasing it may put some people off all together.

At expert we know the online world is full of new and changing words, terms and acronyms, so to help you understand these we have developed a simple series of definitions.

expert jumped at the chance to manage the printing of two of 3x1.2m giant banners for the Christchurch Volunteer Army.

These days you do not need separate web design, development, and hosting companies for website projects, with any good website design company now offering full web development, and hosting facilities rolled into one package.

As smart phones have become increasingly accessible it has become neccessary to not only consider these devices, but cater to them in your website build.

Anyone that has used a good database understands and has seen the benefits of it being able to easily search, filter data and even grouping records together according to common attributes i.e. all members who live in Wellington.

Email marketing is a cost effective, high engagement method of getting your message in front of your target market. Here are some tips and pointers from Expert on how to use this tool for maximum impact.

Meta data tags are used to specify a page’s title, description, keywords, author and the last time it was modified. They are not displayed on the web page, but are read by search engines and factored into the search rankings.

If you want your website to rank highly with search engines such as Google and Yahoo, it is a good idea to manage your website and it’s Search Engine Optimization with a content management system (CMS).

It seems that in today’s digital landscape, everyone and their dog is an expert in all things online. Sometimes, however, there’s more misinformation than real honest knowledge, and this is all too true in the area of Search Engine Optimisation.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of improving a website to become more visible to search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing for specified keywords and phrases. The website will then appear higher in the list of search results for these specified keywords and phrases.

At expert our website design process is broken up into 5 stages: Stage 1 Briefing, Stage 2 Structure design, Stage 3 Concept design, Stage 4 Build and Stage 5 Testing and training

With the month of Movember approaching, the team at expert are rallying to support our Project Management Consultant, Jeff! This Movember he will be sporting a highly stylish ginger mo.

At expert our website design process is broken up into 5 stages: Stage 1 Briefing, Stage 2 Structure design, Stage 3 Concept design, Stage 4 Build and Stage 5 Testing and training

At expert our website design process is broken up into 5 stages: Stage 1 Briefing, Stage 2 Structure design, Stage 3 Concept design, Stage 4 Build and Stage 5 Testing and training

At expert our website design process is broken up into 5 stages: Stage 1 Briefing, Stage 2 Structure design, Stage 3 Concept design, Stage 4 Build and Stage 5 Testing and training

At Expert, we know that we have always been able to recognise our own star developments, applications, and projects, and now we have recognised another star development in New Zealand Space flight. This particular star that drew our attention was the team at Kiwi2Space.

When you use MoST as your content management system it is a simply process to enable comments on ANY of you web site’s pages. This tutorial will show you how.

When using Social Media a lot of us feel out of our depth, it’s still all so new! So here at Expert we have come up with 5 simple tips to help you when using Social Media and Marketing for your business.

To spread his message, “Swampy” moved into the online realm, through a website that incorporats a range of Social media tools. Expert’s brief was to provide a two way communication tool, between “Swampy” and his constituents. We recommend an online blog.

Social Media and Marketing tools. Every situation and business is different. However this should help get your head around what your business might need. Always remember “quality not quantity”.

With the October 1 date fast approaching, a range of issues and opportunities present themselves in terms of GST rates and pricing.

With Social Media being such a hot topic at the moment we at Expert thought we would start our new blog with a month of articles all about it and start at the beginning – “What is Social Media?”