Beyond the help section offered by CPA Site Solutions are some best practices for making your life easier when modifying your accounting firm’s website. There is a past post on some helpful suggestions that brought some positive feedback so here are some more.
Adding a custom page. When you add a custom page to your accounting firm’s website the default file name is custom.php. This name is what shows in the the website’s URL.
So, for example if my website is wyattcpa.com and I go to the services page on the site it might say wyattcpa.com/services.php as the URL. If I have a custom page, by default, the page shows as wyattcpa.com/custom.php.
If I create more custom pages they become custom2.php, custom3.php, and so on. This isn’t good for search engines and doesn’t look good if a user looks at the URL or uses the URL in a link.
Custom Page Settings
You want the page name to be more descriptive and appropriate to what your page content is about. You can fix this easily enough through the settings of the custom page.
While in the Site Manager click on Site Map. Mouse over the new page, right click, and choose settings. In the settings area change the file name from custom.php to something similar to the navigation title.
If your navigation title is New Tax Rules you might change the file name to newtaxrules.php or new_tax_rules.php. By changing this you are helping search engines and users identify what content that page contains.
Custom Header
Using your own image within the page header area. The page header contains the title of your a particular website page alongside a small image. If you have ever tried to change the image there is no choice to upload one of your own.
You can do this by changing the Header Style to Custom Header. Doing this brings up a blank page. You can then copy the previous image, title, and line and paste it in place. (Doing this directly is ok because you are copying from within rather than from Microsoft Word)
You can then click on the image then upon the insert image icon and upload a picture from your computer. Be sure the image is already re-sized as the area it is going into is very small.
These are a couple of time saving tips you can use with your accounting website. Look for more in the near future.
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