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Parental Controls and Child Safety

By:
Patrick Schmalstig
Added:
31st Jan 2025
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Regular
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Core documentation
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How to comply with regional laws governing child safety and privacy.

Guide to running a web agency

By:
Chris Graham
Added:
30th Nov 2015
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Regular
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Auxillary
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Things to consider when setting up a web development agency.

Making supplementary tutorials for Composr

By:
Chris Graham
Added:
31st Oct 2015
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Expert
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Auxillary
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This tutorial will show you how to add a new supplementary tutorial to Composr.

Metadata

By:
Chris Graham
Added:
28th Feb 2015
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Regular
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Core documentation
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An explanation of how metadata works within Composr.

Problem and feedback reports, and development policies

By:
Chris Graham
Added:
30th Nov 2014
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Novice
Tutorial type:
Core documentation
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Providing feedback and making contributions to Composr.

Choosing a software company for your project

By:
Chris Graham
Added:
30th Jun 2011
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Novice
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Auxillary
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Advice on how to pick a suitable developer for your project.

How to approach complex projects

By:
Chris Graham
Added:
30th Jun 2011
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Novice
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Auxillary
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A sensible process for deciding how to approach complex web projects.

Feedback methods that don't lead you down the garden path

By:
Chris Graham
Added:
30th Jun 2011
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Novice
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Auxillary
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A look at how users do and do not report feedback, and how this should affect your decision making.

Maintaining a good agency relationship

By:
Chris Graham
Added:
30th Jun 2011
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Novice
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Auxillary
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How to be a good client and not drive your web designer insane.

Learn to embrace irrational behaviour in your customers

By:
Chris Graham
Added:
30th Jun 2011
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Novice
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Auxillary
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A marketing primer: recognising the impatience of the modern customer.

Introduction to marketing

By:
Chris Graham
Added:
30th Jun 2011
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Novice
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Auxillary
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An overview of how to go about marketing, with a particular emphasis on the personal side of things. For people starting a business but without significant marketing experience.

Minimum Viable Products

By:
Chris Graham
Added:
30th Jun 2011
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Novice
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Auxillary
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The importance of simplifying and aligning requirements, in order to kickstart a seemingly complex project.

Project pricing

By:
Chris Graham
Added:
30th Jun 2011
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Novice
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Auxillary
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An honest and detailed look at how much professional websites typically cost.

Project Management

By:
Chris Graham
Added:
30th Jun 2011
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Novice
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Auxillary
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Advice for managing projects correctly from the start, for both agencies and clients.

Dos and Do-nots of a (Composr) website

By:
Chris Graham
Added:
31st Jul 2010
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Novice
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Core documentation
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A few of the do and do-nots of running a website powered by Composr.

Drinking from the feature pool

By:
Chris Graham
Added:
31st Jul 2008
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Novice
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Core documentation
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The thought processes required to successfully design a complex and personalised website using Composr, and an overview of what features are available.

Legal and social responsibilities

By:
Chris Graham and Patrick Schmalstig
Added:
31st Jul 2008
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Novice
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Core documentation
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Guidance on the legal and social issues that webmasters need to understood.

Advice for choosing and managing staff

By:
Chris Graham
Added:
31st Jul 2008
Edited:
18th Nov 2025
Difficulty:
Novice
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Core documentation
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A short tutorial with tips for choosing staff, written for community websites run by volunteers.

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