Optimise your images for a faster website and improved SEO
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Optimising large images is one of the easiest ways to speed up a website. If you sell chairs, you show…
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How tracking pixels work
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A tracking pixel is scripting code that businesses place on their websites or email campaigns to detect and analyse user…
Does my B2B website need to be mobile friendly?
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Last week I had the pleasure of speaking about Technical SEO at the New Venture Institute at Flinders in Adelaide.…
Small Business Digital Champions conference 2019
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This time last week, we were privileged to attend The Small Business Digital Champions Project conference at Facebook HQ in…
How business owners can do their own SEO in 2019
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Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is a huge area, and to be done well it often involves a number of varied…
Meeum announced as Small Business Digital Champions corporate partner
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Announced earlier this year, the Small Business Digital Champions Project is an Australian Government initiative to help Australian small businesses…
Change your habits and become a better web developer
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In every job, you have habits that are hard to break. You drive a certain way to work, or always…
Take the Meeum HTML quiz
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In the world of website production, HTML is an important language to grasp. It is at the heart of every…
How to force HTTPS on your website
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Having HTTPS enabled (ie: having an SSL Certificate) on your server is important for the security of your website. It…
Introducing Payment Plans (without AfterPay)
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We are very pleased to announce that you can now pay for your Meeum workshops in instalments. This is something…
Student Story – Dean (Small business owner)
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Dean is a co-founder of Driveby Repairs. He recently attended Meeum’s three-hour How To Code a Website workshop on The…
How to not track yourself in Google Analytics
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Google Analytics is an incredibly useful tool for any website owner. You have the ability to measure where your site…
What is Technical SEO?
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Technical SEO is an ever-evolving skill-set and one that is far more mature than it was 20 years when I…
The best sites for great (free) stock photos
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Having access to great, free photography for use in your digital projects is pretty amazing. Stock photography has been around…
What is HTML?
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Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the language that we use to build websites. HTML forms the basis of every website…
How to keep in touch with Meeum
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Keep in touch! To be the first in the know on all things Meeum, hit us up on these channels:…
Why Meeum don’t offer AfterPay or OxiPay
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Both AfterPay and OxiPay are pretty big in the Australian market. Buy now, pay later. Or as AfterPay call it…
A high bounce rate isn’t always a bad thing
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In the world of website analytics and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), one of the most feared things a website owner…
Student Story – Charlie (Advertising Media Buyer)
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Charlie is a Media Buyer for Direct Response Media (DRM) and recently attended Meeum’s three-hour How To Code a Website…
Improve your SEO with the <title> tag
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The <title> tag is a crucial part of any website’s Technical Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) strategy to succeed in its…
Meeum’s classroom based learning helps teachers get to grips with coding
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Melbourne teacher Marcus Newman knew coding was a vital skill for his students to learn but long struggled to get…
What is Meeum’s Website Masterclass all about?
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Website on a Weekend (WoaW) is Meeum’s two-day intensive web building workshop. As is obvious from the title, it’s always…
What is Version Control (and do I care)?
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Version Control is a way for us to keep track of changes in our codebase. It is heavily used in…
Make sure the businesses you like are at the top of your Facebook feed
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Facebook keep doing things with algorithms and other things. Quite frankly I’m a little tired of it. A little while…
Will mobile-first indexing affect my SEO?
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There’s been a quite a bit of buzz recently about the fact that Google has been ramping up their mobile…
Find the perfect domain name for your new idea
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If you’re anything like me, you’ve got at least four million ideas flying through your head at any one time.…
Student Story – Laura (Advertising Account Director)
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Ten years ago, Laura had the idea she wanted to build a website. She watched a few YouTube videos and…
Why you need to know HTML and CSS if you work in digital
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Learning to code is not always about becoming a coder. For a proportion of our students, learning HTML and CSS…
What if you COULDN’T opt out of My Health Record?
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There’s been a fair bit of chatter controversy about My Health Record (MHR) over the last few weeks. The issues…
How to post to Instagram from your computer
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Instagram is one of the most popular social networking platforms around at the moment. It’s crucial to have an Instagram…
Installing the GitHub desktop client
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This is primarily for Meeum students undertaking one of our multi-day workshops, although anyone can follow along if they’re looking…
How to install Visual Studio Code on a Mac or a PC
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Installing Visual Studio Code is a very simple process. As with most software, it’s a case of downloading the source…
Why alt-text is so great for SEO and accessibility
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The alt attribute (sometimes called alt-text) is part of the code we use to display an image on a website.…
Signing up to GitHub and creating your first repository
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Using version control is an essential part of being a web developer. Although there are other types of version control,…
My Favourite Coding Podcasts
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One of the best ways to keep up with what’s happening in the development landscape (well, anything really), is by…
Smart Entrepreneurs know how to code
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Knowing how to code is an essential part of business today. As entrepreneurs, there are a few things that are…
Could coding websites be my side hustle?
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This was a question we were emailed as part of #AskMeeumAnything. If you’ve got a tech (or non-tech) question –…