Posts Tagged Web Design
All you really need to know about website design you learned while trick or treating.
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Jacqueline Sinex Remember going door-to-door as a kid on Halloween? It was all about the treats. Every kid on the block set out to see which house would have the best candy that year – the house with the biggest bunch of chocolates and lolly pops. But there was always that one house that disappointed – nothing [...]
Read moreBlog Basics
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Bryan Lokey You may have noticed the increasing popularity of blogs on the Internet. Blogs are not just for personal use and are not simply a soapbox; they are a great way to build content for your web site, attracting both visitors and search engines. Hosting your own blog can be free and easy. Getting Started with [...]
Read moreQuestions About “DIY SEO”
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Bobby Martinez We often field questions about search engines and how a small business with limited budget can drive traffic to their web site. Most people want to know, what can they do themselves, without hiring anyone, without spending much money. There are probably hundreds of details in that response, but here are the basics of what [...]
Read moreJust Say No To Free Template Software
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Rachael Pierce You may have seen small budget providers offer free ‘do-it-yourself’ web site building software, and it looks so easy you don’t know why you should pass it up. But before you jump into that template software, know what you are actually getting. When you use templates to design your website, your website is usually not [...]
Read moreHello Out There!
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Rachael Pierce Hello. I am a potential customer. I’d love to talk to you about your product. Heck, I’d even like to buy it. But I need one question answered. Can you help me? Wait, I am on your website. I can just find your contact information and call you myself. Hold on…… I can’t find out [...]
Read moreDomain Name vs. Web Host
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Rachael Pierce Often customers ask us what the difference is between their web hosting service and their domain name. While these two are closely related, and work hand-in-hand, they are separate entities. It can be helpful to house all of these services under one roof, so you deal with one company for all your websites needs. For [...]
Read moreWeb site navigation menu tips
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Jacqueline Sinex Using css (style sheets) to style the links of your web site menu can be advantageous, both for search-friendliness and for usability. It is easy to set up styles for your links once you become somewhat comfortable with using style sheets. You can even make the links look just like tabs or buttons, with or [...]
Read moreUser-Friendliness and SEO-friendliness
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Jacqueline Sinex Planning to redesign your web site? Always good to hear! Here are a few tips for improving your web site, even on a limited budget. 1. Keep your logo in the top left corner, linked to the main url. It seems so simple. But there are still many sites that do not practice this. More [...]
Read moreThe 3 Essential New Year Resolutions for a Successful Site
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Jacqueline Sinex It’s hard to believe another year has passed. Time seems to slip away, leaving us standing at the edge of 2008, thinking about what could have been better, or what could have been worse. It’s a time where everybody makes resolutions to better themselves, and they often neglect their web sites. Your web site is [...]
Read morePromoting Retail Business on the Web
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Jacqueline Sinex Businesses with a tangible product to sell have access to some handy tools on the Internet that can make service industry business owners quite jealous. Case in point: Froogle. In case you haven’t heard of it, Froogle is Google’s answer to online bargain searching. If a determined fashionista uses Google’s product search to locate designer [...]
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