As a website owner, it’s important to pay close attention to the health of your website and server to limit your risk of “getting hacked”. The number of website hacking incidents increases each year and even the industry’s best are having a tough time combating the issue. This post was created as a plain-English resource…
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Improve Your Website SEO WIth a Glossary
Take a look through your Google Analytics reports or use Google’s Keyword Tool and you’ll find evidence of an often overlooked but effective content strategy to help boost your website SEO. You’ll notice information-gathering keywords including “how”, “when” and “what”, often overshadowed by the “buy” and “find” keywords you’re already targeting. The answer to leveraging…
Can You Make the Logo Bigger?
A great read titled “The Danger of Asking Your Web Designer to Make the Logo Bigger” by RocketMedia.com: http://rocketmedia.com/blog/article/the-danger-of-asking-your-web-designer-to-make-the-logo-bigger
Optimize Website for Better SEO
Focus on SEO to get more quality website traffic A friend emailed asking for some SEO tips. Since I answer this question at least once a week I thought I’d blog it for anyone/everyone to cash in on. Most of these tips are common-sense to any designer, but it’s important website owners know and understand…
Writing Your Own Web Site Content? Read This First.
(Don’t Forget to View Our Example Below) Most web site design companies offer a professional creative writing service, whether in-house or outsourced. If you’re contracting a web design company to build your website, but choose to write the text / copy yourself, remember this: Help your designer help you by providing your website text in…
Why Your Web Designers Should Host Your Website
There are a lot of web hosting companies out there. The funny thing is, very few of them offer web design services. If your company website is hosted with one company, and receives web design services from another, consider what options your web designer has for you. There’s a chance you can consolodate both services and bring…
What You Need to Know About Malware
What is Malware? Compliments of wikipedia: “Malware, short for malicious software, is software designed to infiltrate a computer system without the owner’s informed consent. The expression is a general term used by computer professionals to mean a variety of forms of hostile, intrusive, or annoying software or program code.” Why You Need to Be Concerned…
Using Photos in Web Design
A cool post from sixrevisions.com, “Excellent Examples of Using Photos in Web Design”… a pretty awesome post, check it out: http://sixrevisions.com/
Stock Photos vs Professional Photography
In my opinion, the less stock photos you use, the better. Even with the options available from large stock libraries like istockphoto.com, the web seems to be full of stock-junk. It reminds me of the days when every second website you visited was a FrontPage template. Visitors to your website can smell stock photos from…
Website Survival Guide 