Businesses need to be able to control the content on their websites. We understand that at Paper Leaf, which is why we offer CMS-powered websites. Our solution provides you with a very simple way to add, edit, or remove pages, text and/or images on your site. Plus, we brand the content management system for your business, and give you a training session on how to use the administration side of the website. That’s right – we don’t just design aesthetic & usable websites, we also do the implementation side of things. But instead of rambling on in text format, we recorded a short screencast for you.
In this screencast, I go through a testing site designed & built by Paper Leaf and show how easy it is for clients to add a page with an image & some text, as well as how easy it is to change text on another page. We also talk about users & permissions, and website stats. Have a look and contact us if you’re interested in our services. Thanks!
* Keep in mind that this video showcases just a small part of what a Paper Leaf built, CMS-powered website can do. There’s a whole lot more under the hood, so drop us a line!
Here at Paper Leaf, we do a decent amount of Wordpress blog design & implementation for our clients. While Wordpress is super easy to learn, you can’t just build your clients a blog, send them the login information and then disappear off of the face of the earth. Where’s the customer service, people?!? Ideally, we sit down for a half hour or hour with our clients to show them the basics of how to use their new blog (writing a post, adding categories, checking stats, uploading photos, adding users). However, sometimes a face-to-face meet up isn’t doable; we offer graphic & web design in Edmonton, but many of our clients are outside of the city.
To combat this, we built a very simple reference guide to give to our clients that explains how to do the following in their new Wordpress blog:
write a new blog entry
save, preview & publish a post
add tags (and what that means)
add categories (and what that means)
check blog stats
use the Media section
moderate comments
update plugins
add a new user
This covers about 99% of what most basic blog users need to know, and it provides them with a resource they can come back to when needed, share within their business, and so forth. It’s sort of a basic Wordpress author’s guide suitable to email and view on screen – click here to download it (or click the image above).
We figured that since this guide has been helpful to us, maybe it will be helpful to other designers who use Wordpress. Here’s hoping! Anyway, share freely (but not as your own, please!)
*note: we install the Site Stats plugin for all clients – if you use this guide, I recommend doing the same, or your clients might be confused as to why they don’t have a Site Stats link.
This is an article in a series called “For Our Clients”. The goal of these articles is to be as transparent as we can with our clients so as to help clarify how we think, what we do and how we do it. We also hope that these articles can become a resource for clients – sort of an FAQ in article form – that will help broaden the understanding of why certain projects have the characteristics they do.
As I talked about in our article The Importance of a Quality Website, having a website is a must for your business. However, having just any website isn’t good enough – I mean, you don’t want your site to end up on the list of The World’s Ugliest Websites, do ya? But, if you’re looking to hire a designer to build your website, you probably have some questions – and you will probably have some more questions later on in the design process. So, with that in mind, I’ve written this article to answer a few common questions clients have – and feel free to use this information for your clients too, fellow designers! I’ve tried to keep this article as jargon-free as I can, so that any and everyone looking into getting a website built will be able to understand it.
This is an article in a series called “For Our Clients”. The goal of these articles is to be as transparent as we can with our clients so as to help clarify how we think, what we do, and how we do it. We also hope that these articles can become a resource for clients – sort of an FAQ in article form – that will help broaden the understanding of why certain projects have the characteristics they do.
Your logo is the face of your business. It needs to project the image you want for your business; it needs to attract your target market; it needs to be effective in a range of mediums. Each client is unique, and thus each client’s logo is unique. So how do you know what a great logo looks like? How can you articulate the qualities of a good logo? What goes in to a logo design process?
Logo design by Paper Leaf for Jacek Chocolate
Those questions, and more, are what we aim to answer with this article. If you are looking into hiring a designer to create your logo, or rebrand your business, please read on. This article will tell you what to look for in a logo, and reveal to you exactly how Paper Leaf goes about creating logos for our [many, happy] clients. Hit the jump for more info!
