New features: Customer Accounts done the right way—better for buyers, better for you
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December 14, 2017How to create a new version of my website?
With Rocketspark there are always little changes and adjustments You may come to the point where you have had your Rocketspark for a little while, and you want to give it a redesign but don’t want your live website to be in a “half redesigned” state. The best way to do this is to create a new 30 day trial with Rocketspark to try things out and then implement this new design onto your existing website when you have the new design worked out. The other option is to use one of Rocketspark’...
October 24, 2017Making Google Shopping easy with Rocketspark
Google Shopping is available as a paid advertising service from Google that promotes products from your online store in Google search results. For the online shopper, Google Shopping is a section on Google where you can browse for items that are for sale. ...
September 13, 2017New features for coupons, promo discounts and picking up in-store
We are continuously developing the Rocketspark platform and a key focus at present is the development of new features to help our ecommerce clients generate more business — and to streamline the operational side of things so that their business can scale well. Two recent examples of this focus were the launches of Laybuy and GoSweetSpot integrations and now we’ve just launched a new set of features to help with running specials with discounted pricing and collecting an order from a physica...
August 22, 2017Streamlined shipping to save time & money with GoSweetSpot and Rocketspark
At Rocketspark we get genuine enjoyment from seeing businesses launch and grow. A common theme amongst clients as they grow is how to scale well and minimise their operational admin time and run more efficiently. We see this efficiency theme particularly amongst our ecommerce clients. ...
August 9, 2017Connect your Rocketspark ecommerce website with Laybuy to offer buy now and pay later
We’re continuously developing the Rocketspark platform to help clients be more successful online and we’re excited to tell you about a new feature we’ve just launched for our New Zealand based ecommerce customers. Update November 2018: Laybuy is now available to merchants in Australia and the United Kingdom as well as New Zealand. ...
August 1, 2017A new suite of design tools for the most important part of your page
The top section of any web page is key real estate and is critical to creating a great first impression on your website. Most modern home pages consist of a logo, navigation menu, main heading and large photo—without having to scroll down to see them (not that scrolling is bad, it’s just good to get the important stuff near the top). Arranging this combination of elements in a beautiful way without scrolling, can require some fine tuning to get it juuuust right. That’s why we’ve just l...
June 22, 2017Fully responsive websites at every screen size — now on Rocketspark
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May 23, 2017The history of mobile-friendly websites and responsive web design
To fully understand why Rocketspark now offers full Responsive Web Design, it’s helpful to understand the history of mobile-friendly websites and what’s brought us to this point. ...
May 22, 2017What is domain privacy and why would I need it?
When a domain name is purchased, the details you entered are added to the domain as an administrative contact. This information is then searchable by the public via a domain look up. ...
April 19, 2017“A little bird tweeted me”: how a website will boost your business’s word-of-mouth buzz
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March 28, 2017No, you can’t identify individual visitors to your website (but here’s 4 things you can do instead)
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March 17, 2017Enabling SSL: How not to scare away security-conscious customers
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March 14, 2017New Feature: Stack Background Images
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. If that's true, then you’ll love our new stack background image design feature. You can now add impressive full width pictures to specific sections of your pages, giving your designs a whole new level of customisation and sophistication. ...
February 13, 2017How to start a graphic design business? - Part 3: How do I get more business?
Now that you have everything ready to go to run your business, you need some great businesses and clients to work with. But how do you find them. First things first, get a website set up. People are checking businesses out online before they do anything else and you need to make sure if people try to find you, they can. Sort out your social media at the same time. A Facebook page, Instagram feed and a Linkedin account adds credibility and makes you easy to find on any platform. Depending on wha...
February 3, 2017How to start a graphic design business? - Part 2: What software tools should I use for my design business?
Once you have established what services to offer, you need to look at the specific tools to use to help run the business. Choosing tools that can grow with you, are best in class and that work together can really help with your efficiency. Having started out as a small design business to now being a fast growing business with a quickly growing team, we have some experience in the best tools to use for various parts of the business. We’re happy to share our thoughts! ...
February 2, 2017How to start a graphic design business? - Part 1
Starting your own graphic design business can be a daunting task. Where to begin?? What services do you want to offer? What tools do I use? How do I find new business and what do I charge? Setting the foundations of your new graphic design business up correctly will make sure you have the ability to grow quickly and efficiently. Rocketspark’s early foundations were a graphic design business and website builder grew up out of our experience of creating websites for our design clients. You can...
February 1, 2017On-page SEO: The secret ingredient to boosting your Google rankings
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January 31, 2017Using someone else’s words, pictures and videos on your website
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December 8, 2016You can write your website copy: mastering the structure, style and process of web writing
It’s a funny thing, writing. Thanks to compulsory education and the invention of a movable-type printing press, most of us can do it. If you’re reading this, chances are you can string together enough words to form a semi-coherent email or scribble a few well wishes on a birthday card. So why is writing website content so darn hard? ...
November 10, 2016New Features: Edit the design of specific stacks
Now you can edit the design of a specific stack and all of the content inside it to create a different looks down your page. There are endless ways this can be used to help improve the design of a website and it helps break up content, instead of your whole page having the same background colour and content styling. Check out the specific features below and get thinking of how you can use this on your own Rocketspark website. ...
October 14, 2016Waipa Business Awards: Rocketspark clients in the business of winning
Nothing inspires us at Rocketspark like our clients. Why? Because they’re a bunch of winners—officially! Following on from the success of our client Rob May Builders in taking out the supreme award last year, a huge number of our clients were recognised at this year’s Waipa Networks Business Awards. The Awards, put on by the Cambridge, Te Awamutu and Raglan Chambers of Commerce, honour the best businesses in the Waipa and Raglan regions in our home base in New Zealand. Longtime Rocketspar...
September 6, 2016Tools that Rocketspark uses for website design and build packages
This post has been updated, please see the latest version here >As our design partners add more clients to their Rocketspark Design Studio, they need tools that can help streamline their workflow to support this growth. At Rocketspark we have always used software to solve problems and streamline the way we work and this post is an overview of what we use and how we use it....
September 1, 2016Making cool buttons with the Rocketspark picture block
If you’ve read many of our other posts you’ll know that have a good call to action button is a key part of any website journey. The Rocketspark picture block is beautifully simple to use but it also has a great range of design settings, so you can create great looking picture buttons with overlaid text and nice hover effects that add a little sophistication to your website.. In this blog post we’re going to showcase some of the real Rocketspark customers that are using unique picture eff...
August 26, 2016Size matters: Make your homepage long, not short
We are the ADD generation. If we want political news, we’ll take it in 9-second soundbites. When a celebrity dies, we expect our eulogies in 140-character tweets. And reading a book?? Well, TL;DR. Which makes it all the more surprising that, when it comes to page length, longer is better. I know you just got distracted by that Facebook ping that just came in, so let me say it again: when it comes to page length, longer is better....
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