How to Create an Academic Website
My Guides to Planning, Building and Promoting your academic website or author platform.
Tips for Growing your Audience and Increasing your Impact
How to Choose Images for Your Academic Website
What kind of images should I use on my academic website? How you use images is something to consider in planning your website and will affect the look and feel of your website. Images on academic websites can serve a variety of functions. The two most useful types of images…
Personal Academic Websites Versus Faculty Web Pages
Four reasons why a faculty profile page is no substitute for your own personal academic website. Almost every academic has an institutional or faculty web page that briefly summarises their career, interests, and publications. So should you rely on that for your academic web presence? Here are 4 reasons why I think that's problematic.
How to Build the Publications List for Your Academic Website
This guide will help you to build a list of your publications in a format you need to create a page on your academic website. I’ve created this guide because I often find that the list of publications people keep in their CV does not display well on a website….
How to Export your Publications from Google Scholar for your Academic Website
A quick video and instructions to help you import your publications into you academic website. Google Scholar will export your publications list in BibTeX format. This method uses an online convertor to convert the BibTeX format into one of several standard reference list formats, such as APA, which you can…
How to Choose a Domain Name for your Personal Academic Website
It’s important to choose the right domain name for your personal academic website because it’s the first thing potential visitors find out about your website, as well as being the means to remember how to revisit your website. In this article I’m going to give you some guidelines for deciding…
How to Get More Visitors to your Academic Website: Start with Backlinks
It will take a while for Google to understand a new academic website. Over the first few weeks it will crawl and index your pages and analyze visitor behaviour. Until then Google search results can be a bit random; in time it will settle down so that when someone searches…
How to Choose a Theme for your Academic Website
Which theme should you use for your academic website? I used Genesis for many years. It was the foremost theme framework for designers and developers – very lean and well-coded to high standards. But it was definitely a developer-centric framework, meaning that you needed a developer to customise it, unless…
How journal editors (and all academics) can benefit from social media – talk by Andy Miah
An interesting talk on the uses of Social Media by academics by Andy Miah who is Director of the Creative Futures Institute & Professor of Ethics and Emerging Technologies, University of the West of Scotland. Andy discusses the benefits of social media for journal editors, not only for publicity, but also…
How to integrate Contact Form 7 with ConvertKit
ConvertKit is a new, powerful and incredibly easy to use email marketing service for professional bloggers. Contact Form 7 is actively installed in over 1 million WordPress blogs and websites. Here's how to integrate CF7 with ConvertKit, so that the sender is automatically subscribed to a ConvertKit Form when they send you…
How to integrate Ninja Forms with ConvertKit
If you run one of the half a million websites that have Ninja Forms installed you may be wondering if there's a way to integrate your form with ConvertKit, the new, powerful and very intuitive marketing email service provider for professional bloggers. Connecting Ninja Forms with ConvertKit is simple and only takes a few minutes to…
How to integrate Restrict Content Pro with ConvertKit
ConvertKit is a simple to use but powerful email marketing sytem for professional bloggers. Restrict Content Pro is a membership plugin that makes it extremely easy to deliver premium content to your subscribers. Together they provide a really straightforward foundation for a membership site. Here's how to integrate them. As…
How to Make a Feedback Form for Posts or Products by adding the Referer Page in Contact Form 7
This article explains how to capture the referer page in Contact Form 7 and add it to your email notification. The Referer page (originally a misspelling of refferer page) is the URL of the previous page your visitor was on immediately prior to the current page. With a contact form…
Email Newsletter Design with ConvertKit and MailerLite
MailerLite has just launched a new editor for their Email Newsletters, so it’s timely to compare the editors for MailerLite and ConvertKit. The two services could not be more different in this area. So it is a crucial aspect to review. Choose the wrong service and you’re going to be frustrated…
Embedding a Responsive Vimeo Video without Plugins or Coding
By default a Vimeo embed in WordPress is not responsive. However there's a way to tweak the iframe embed code with one click to make it responsive. There are several ways to embed Vimeo videos in wordPress. The simplest is to paste the URL of the video in your post….