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New 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. ...

Waipa 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...

Tools 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....

Making 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...

Picture this: how quality images make for a better website

Remember when connecting to the internet sounded like R2D2 getting a colonoscopy (beeeep-teeeeek-shhhhhhhh-zhzhzhzhz)? That was the bad ol’ days of dial-up, when loading images on a webpage took foreeeeeeeeever. Thankfully, with super-speedy internet connections nowadays, we can get images quickly (and get our unboxing videos at lightning speed—phew!). That’s why users want images with their web experience. Scratch that; users expect images. But not just any sort of images either. It’s ...

Size 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....

Tourism website design best practice with Rocketspark and Waikato River Trails

The Waikato River Trails are a 103km cycle trail along the edge of New Zealand’s longest river. The trails officially opened in 2011 and since then thousands of people have run, biked, walked and raced the trail’s remote (but never too far from a cafe) riverside terrain. Despite having spectacular scenery and being a short drive from major centres and tourism attractions like Hobbiton, The Blue Spring and Rotorua, the Waikato River Trails are still a somewhat undiscovered tourism gem. ...

New Features: More font, size and colour options—and a whole new engine under the hood

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Accountant & bookkeeper websites best practice guide

You're accounting professionals—but does your website show that? Does it clearly communicate what you offer and convert visitors into leads? ...

Bookkeeper websites | best practice guide

So, you’re a qualified bookkeeper, a proven performer in the industry. Does your website convey that? Does it clearly communicate the professional standard you offer? And, most importantly, does it convert your website visitors into leads and new clients? Here’s a few things to think about to make your website work hard for you. The world of websites can be a challenge but if you do the basics well you can set yourself apart from the crowd with a great website. In this guide we cover off t...

Why are Testimonials Important on a bookkeeper website?​​

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Why your “About Us” page is so important

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Why growing your online business reputation is critical for sales & overall growth

This post has been written by Ryan Haidinger from Trustspot. Trustspot is a Rocketspark add-on for ecommerce website owners where you can set up an exit survey for your customers after they make a purchase from your ecommerce website. When it comes to growing your business, sometimes the easiest ways to increase sales are often overlooked by more cumbersome solutions – which end up costing you a lot of time and money, which can better be spent elsewhere. Simply by googling “ways to grow my ...

How to make your bookkeeping website rank highly in search engines

Have you ever wondered how to get your website ranking number one in the search results when somebody searches for bookkeepers on Google? There’s no failsafe way to get that coveted top spot, but there are lots of methods for trying to get your website to rank highly in search results. Souping up your website so that it ranks well is called search engine optimisation (SEO). It’s a massive topic and can quickly become overwhelming. But, since most small businesses don’t do any SEO, even do...

Rocketspark Graphic Designer SEO Support

You might’ve heard of search engine optimisation (“SEO” for short)—but what is it? SEO is about getting more people to your website by being able to find you easily in search engines like Google, Yahoo or Bing. The aim of the game is to optimise your site so that it ranks well—ideally high up on page one—for relevant search results, so that ultimately people click through to your website. We have created some helpful guides and blogs that will help you to get a better understanding ...

How to make a great contact us page on your website

Visitors will arrive at your site. Hopefully they visit some other pages on your site. Then if they like what they’ve seen, they will either want to buy from you (if you’re an online shop) or if you’re a service business, they will want to get in contact with you. Contact us pages for online shops are still important, as it gives potential buyers an avenue to ask you questions in case there’s something they want to know before buying. ...

Rocketspark Graphic Designers e-commerce Support

Setting up an online shop with Rocketspark is a straightforward and inexpensive way of boosting a business. Using our website builder you can create a online shop that allows users to search for products, select categories, filters and brands and look at related products. We have a host of different payment gateways that you can use that are really easy to setup and manage. We’ve written a e-commerce book to help you get to grips with online retail and setting up an online store with Rocket...

SEO health check – Is your website getting found in Google?

If your website has been up and running for a couple of months or more, an SEO health check is a good idea (search engine optimisation – the process of optimising your website for search engines like Google). Take a step back and see how your website is performing in Google and how much traffic you're getting to your website. If you're only getting a handful of visits each day or less, you might have a SEO problem! If you're new to SEO, check out our SEO Basics series first. To measure your t...

Xerocon London 2016 Wrap up blog

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again, when you tell most people you’ve been to an accounting conference they look at you like you’ve just arrived back from planet boring. The reality is that Xerocon is genuinely fun to be be at. We've prepared a blog post to share a little of what we learnt and highlight the popular topics we helped Xero parters with. ...

Who uses Rocketspark? Video interviews from Xerocon London 2016

At Xerocon London 2016 it was great to connect with a number of accountants, bookkeepers and partners who are using Rocketspark for their own site or have clients using Rocketspark. We asked them to share their thoughts on Xerocon and Rocketspark. .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%...

26 new font families added to Rocketspark

Beautiful fonts are key to good design and that's why we've curated and added a list of 26 new font families to the Rocketspark website builder – thanks to Adobe Typekit, who supply all of our fonts. Most of the font families we've chosen to add also have a range of different weights, giving you the spectrum of font weights from really light to really bold. View the full list of new font families below. ...

How to add season's greetings to your Rocketspark website

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New Rocketspark social media features

Social media features have been some of Rocketspark’s most requested features in 2015. In particular, the ability to connect your website with Instagram and to customise the style of your social icons to beautifully match the look and feel of the rest of your website design. Using social media is now vitally important to the success of many of our client’s businesses – so we got to work on a bunch of new features. ...

Staff Profile: Hilly Goodwin

Call us on the phone and there's a good chance you'll be greeted by an American accent. No, we haven’t outsourced our customer support; you’ve just “met” our customer service all-star (and token American), Hilly Goodwin. These days, she considers herself half-Kiwi, having lived in New Zealand on and off most of her adult life. But, ironically, it was while stateside that she landed her job at Rocketspark. After four years living in Los Angeles, she, her Kiwi husband and newborn son were...

Email Marketing for E-Commerce

This post is a chapter from our e-book Getting Started With E-Commerce – The Beginner's Guide to Starting an Online Shop.Download your own free copy to learn how to start an online shop ...