🖊️ Intro

Love it or hate it, writing is a task you probably perform on a daily basis on your computer. This might be in the form of writing emails, using Microsoft Office, or even just chatting to friends on Facebook Messenger.

Learning how to navigate more effectively with your keyboard makes this much less of a chore. Here are some keyboard shortcuts to help you zoom around your Word documents.

Windows

Jump forward a word - Ctrl + Right Arrow

Jump back a word - Ctrl + Left Arrow

Jump to the start of the line - Home

Jump to end of the line - End

Jump to the Start of the paragraph - Control + Up Arrow

Jump to the end of the paragraph - Ctrl + D0own Arrow

Delete new word - Ctrl + Delete

Delete previous word - Ctrl + Backspace

Select a character - Shift + Left or Right Arrow

Select a line - Shift + Up or Down Arrow

Select a word - Shift + Ctrl + Left or Right Arrow

Select a paragraph - Shift + Ctrl + Up or Down Arrow

Mac

Jump forward a word - Command + Right Arrow

Jump back a word - Command + Left Arrow

Jump to the start of the line - Home

Jump to end of the line - End

Jump to the Start of the paragraph - Command + Up Arrow

Jump to the end of the paragraph - Command + Down Arrow

Delete new word - Command + Delete

Delete previous word - Command + Backspace

Select a character - Shift + Left or Right Arrow

Select a line - Shift + Up or Down Arrow

Select a word - Shift + Command + Left or Right Arrow

Select a paragraph - Shift + Command + Up or Down Arrow

🗄️ Useful links

🧘 Calm Breathe

If you're feeling stressed or anxious, the easiest way to calm down is to focus on your breathing. This tool makes that a lot easier. Simply follow the prompts on the screen, and you'll be back to a calm state in no time.

👩‍🔬 Khan Academy

I bet you don't remember a lot of what you learnt back in high school. For the most part, that doesn't matter. There are parts of your schooling that you've never used since. However, I'm sure you've had moments where you've said to yourself, "I wish I could remember how to do x". Introducing Khan Academy. A free site with lessons on every high school subject.

🐼 Tiny PNG

Need to email someone some images, but the file sizes are too big? Use tiny png to compress them to a much smaller size. We use this one for all images that go on the websites we build. It can make a huge difference in website speed.

😎 What we're up to

As well as building websites, we are often called on to fix websites. Sometimes, it's a case of "I've pushed the wrong button, and now it won't work". Other times its "I paid someone overseas to build a site for me, and it doesn't work properly". Sometimes its "Why is my website so slow". We've had all of these issues thrown at us, and most of the time we can help.

The most common issue we face is a website being too slow. This leads to a loss in website visits because, honestly, it's never a pleasant experience waiting for a page to load. A loss in website visits means a loss in potential revenue.

Thankfully, speeding up a website is usually pretty easy. There are two things you need to speed up a site.

1. Good Hosting
2. Small payloads

The market is flooded with cheap shared hosting. Companies like Hostgator, Host papa, GoDaddy and more. There is nothing wrong with these, but as the name implies, you are sharing your site hosting with everyone else. This leads to a slower response when someone loads your site up. This can be drastically improved by paying a little more for your site hosting. We host our own websites, and we like to think our hosting is pretty quick. It easily beats the big companies above.

The second thing to focus on is smaller payloads. This means when someone goes to your site, how much data are they having to load into their browser. Do you have lots of images and videos on your sites?

This one can be a lot more tricky, but we are going to focus on one element in particular. Images!

Making sure you have properly sized, and compressed images will go a long way to making your website feel snappy. Ideally, we try to get our images to be under 100 kB. We've seen websites with images over 1 MB. As you can guess, these load very slowly. So, how do you take care of these images?

First, scale them. You can load these into a photo programme and do this, or you can save a lot of time and use our new image scaler tool. How big does your image need to be on the screen? If the image is going to span the length of the screen then you might be stuck at 1920px (px stands for pixels), but otherwise most of the time you can get away with 600px or less.

Next, run them through tiny png to get the file size miniscule.

This trick should be employed for sending emails as well. If you are sending

5 MB images, then you may seriously anger the recipient. Not only does it take a while to download bigger images, but you are also clogging up their inbox.

🌐 Interesting stuff from the web

📱 Use your own icons in iOS

🖌️ Creator Library

💸 Marketing Examples

💲 Plug/Offers/Recommendations

Check out our new image scaler. We were working with a client recently who wanted to learn how to make her images smaller. We needed to find a site that made the process quick and easy. Weirdly, we couldn't find one so, we built one.

Here is how it works.

Drag and drop your image in.

Set a size and click scale.

Download and save your new image.

It will keep your image looking the same but smaller. It also shows you the size difference, so you can see just how much space your saving.

If you have any questions while using the scaler, let us know and we'll be happy to help you out.