Web Site Maintenance Category
“502 Forbidden” : The Importance of Usability Tests
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Brian Disbot One of the most important aspects of a website is usability. Web usability is defined as the flow of your website from page to page. In other words, it is a measure of how well your website is put together and whether improvements are needed to clarify or completely redo a part of the site. [...]
Read moreQuick Tip: HTML (HyperText Markup Language)
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Brian Disbot Today almost everyone has a website of some sort. Whether it’s for business or pleasure, we are all connected to the Internet. Social media websites give you a generic, yet customizable theme that allows you to express yourself by posting text, pictures, videos, and listing your likes and dislikes. The World Wide Web encompasses so [...]
Read moreSpring Cleaning Your Site
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Brian Disbot Spring is often synonymous with renewal. Whether it’s our habits or the conditions of our environment, spring is often used as a metaphor for change and cleansing. “Spring cleaning” applies not just to our homes, but our businesses as well. During this season, consider these few tips to “clean up” and adjust your website that [...]
Read moreYour Internet Stamp: Domain Names
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Brian Disbot Domain names are a key component of every website. Establishing a domain name is one of the first tasks completed when setting up a new site. Making a memorable, effective domain name is easier than you may think. Because this is such an important gateway to your business, here are a few suggestions for picking [...]
Read moreWhat is Page Rank?
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Jacqueline Sinex This is a term that gets thrown around like biscuit dough in a Southern cafe. But I expect few people actually know what it means. According to Wikipedia: PageRank is a link analysis algorithm, named after Larry Page, used by the Google Internet search engine that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a [...]
Read moreNew Year, New Plan
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Chass Armstrong Like athletic endeavors, the business world operates best when properly planned and monitored. You can’t make the proper decisions to advance and strengthen your business without having clear, definable goals and a plan to obtain them.
Read moreTop Tools for the Working Mom
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Jacqueline Sinex In a November 2010 issue of Working Mother magazine, Linkedin was sited as a “top tool” for working moms: “The ability to multitask is a must for the working mom. LinkedIn is one of the tools you can use to maintain your work-life balance while also gleaning key insights from other career minded professionals. The [...]
Read moreMinimizing Javascript
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Jacqueline Sinex Sometimes a little bit of javascript is necessary to control certain features in a website, such as a simple slideshow element on a page, which was a better choice over the heavy Flash animation. But as organic SEO becomes more prominent, we must learn to minimize the presence of javascript among our web page code, [...]
Read moreImage Alt Tags
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Bryan Lokey Do the images on your website have alt tags? If they do, are the alt tags something like abc123.jpg? A very basic yet helpful search-friendly design practice is to include alt and title tags in each of your graphics to better describe what they are. This tells visual impairment devices what those pictures are, and [...]
Read moreGoogle Says Buh-Bye to Meta Keywords
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Jacqueline Sinex Have You Heard? After years of speculation, it’s official: Google’s Matt Cutts stated that Google’s indexing formula ignores the ‘keywords’ meta tag. What does this mean? The meta keywords tag does nothing for your position on Google. However, they are still used by many other search engines and directories, so don’t be too hasty and [...]
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