The Importance of an SSL Certificate

Most people on the internet would think their personal details are safe and no one else would be able to get to them. This is correct, as long as the site you’re using has an SSL Certificate! Any websites without the SSL certificate will have ‘http’ before their URL. While those with a certificate will…

The Features of Google My Business That Matter

Keeping your Google My Business listing up to date and filled with what you can provide customers with, locations you serve in, contact details and so on, will help you up the local SEO ladder. In this blog, we will focus on and highlight the information you should review and update regularly. Google My Business…

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! Green Stripe Media wish you a happy new year! 2020 was a challenging year, and we hope that 2021 brings better times for everyone. If you are a business owner or own a website, it is more crucial than ever to have an up-to-date optimised website. January is one of our busiest…

Which is Best for You – .com or .co.uk?

Over 1000 prefixes, the words that are placed at the end of a web address, are available these days. For this blog, however, we will focus on the most well-known two – .com and .co.uk. If your customers are located globally or locally (depending on the type of business you run) – can contribute towards…

Ideal Word Count on Website Pages

There are several different opinions on how many words should be on your website pages. Do you have a significant section of text explaining everything, a small amount of text with more images or just in the middle? We will go over these and see which is better. When online, there are many distractions, and…

5th Anniversary for Green Stripe Media

This month and year, October 2020, as much as an odd year it has been, marks the 5th Anniversary of Green Stripe Media!month It has been a learning curve along the way, but we couldn’t be happier with the way things are going. When we started the business in 2015, we didn’t expect the response…

How COVID-19 has affected the use of Websites

 We can’t say that we’re surprised by how the use of the internet has changed during this pandemic. People were under lockdown and unable to shop or do their typical day to day things. We have thought about the different impacts this could have made to various businesses. Social Media Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn,…

Why Typography is Important for your Website

Your choice of words on a website will be essential to how your business will come across. However, this blog isn’t about your choice of words, it’s about the font those words are in. The font choice should be something you think about before you even start designing the website. The fonts that you choose…

Essential Steps to Content Writing

Creating content for your website is not easy. There are several hurdles you have to jump to make it successful from being creative to optimising the content for search engines such as Google to researching the subject. In this blog, I will take you through the different challenges that you may face. Research Within the…

How to Design an Amazing Landing Page

Your website’s landing page is one of the essential elements of your site. As you can guess, this is where your website’s visitor lands when they visit your site. This is the first thing they see – so it needs to catch their attention! Your Colours, images, text or buttons all have to attract the…