Help Google give your visitors the best information about your product or service: make your web site search engine friendly! Does each page of your web site have a unique and relevant title? Is your web site up to date? Is your code valid? If not, call us up! We fix bad code, add relevant text, substitute flash with sliders, re-construct your menu, eliminate all duplicate content, and make your web site Google-friendly.
Have you ever seen a web site full of missing images, crooked columns, links that don't work, menus that don't drop down? Most people who see your broken web site figure that your company is either ignorant or careless. Either way you lose credibility. Don't let this happen to you. Call us up if you have a broken site. We'll fix it. You'll look better. It's that simple.
Selling on line has never been easier: if you have a good idea, you can sell it on one of dozens of shopping cart solutions. On line e-commerce applications give your business ready-made storefronts for your goods and services. Accounting and tracking plug-ins help you keep count. We can set you up with Volusion, Estore, Big Commerce, or Shopify. Call us up at 866-298-8989: sell something.
May 12th, 2012
Brian Massey says that Slideshows Don’t Convert. Read him: Kill The Slideshow If there is anything that will define your character as an online marketer, it is your ability to do something that is the opposite of what everyone else is doing because the data tells you so. Such is the case with the
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April 30th, 2012
Just received a call from a client about her site showing up as having been contaminated by malware. The site was coming up fine on my computer. It was not blacklisted on Google. It was not visible as having any problems on the server… THEN, I went to http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/scanner/ and found to my mixed delight
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March 3rd, 2012
As I was deciding how to embellish this very clever flow chart advertising an online IT degree (which will probably get you a lot farther than an Oxford law degree), the only tag lines that sprang to mind were: email from your mother, more email from your mother, another powerpoint attachment in an email from
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February 27th, 2012
The people at USERFOCUS have a series of enlightening articles that take design from decorating to CNS programming. What seems perfectly obvious is that web sites are places “in” which users have experiences; design is about designing these experiences — not merely manipulating pixellated space. First, read David Travis’ article in SMASHING MAGAZINE about Persuasion
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February 18th, 2012
How do you write valid HTML Title Tags which are Search Engine Optimized and User-Friendly? The perfect title will: be typed in Title Case (or Proper Case) This is the most often overlooked error we’ve found when using the web. be unique. Every page MUST HAVE A DIFFERENT title. Do not put the same title on
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February 15th, 2012
Writing a good meta description involves a bit of skill. This is where the “art” part of SEO comes into play. When you write your meta description, imagine a not-yet customer looking at the search engine results. What do you want him to know about your service? How will this not-yet customer know how special you are?
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February 14th, 2012
Question: How Can I Use the Empty Space on the Side of and in the Background of a WordPress Blog? Short Answer: Add a background-image to the body (or wrapper, or container) element of your stylesheet. Long Answer: Lots of WordPress themes are centered and narrowed down to a width of 600px, 720px, or 960px.
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February 11th, 2012
PowerMapper, which calls itself a “One-Click Website Tester” lets you “check any website for broken links, spelling errors, browser compatibility, accessibility, web standards validation and search engine issues” — before it hands you a brutal grade, and shows you all the ways you have failed to adhere to code, to standards, to all the rules
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June 6th, 2011
We set up this site for the renowned German organist, Rosalinde Haas, so that fans could see her latest musical offerings in a neat and pretty way on the front page. Each image links directly to the CD on Amazon.com where customers can place the order securely, or sample some of the music, or download
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May 24th, 2011
How do you mobilize and motivate a sitting public? Pretty images, interesting graphics, bright, exciting colors mark the front page of this web site. Add video, music, flash navigation, lots of background bio, a class schedule with maps and addresses, a colorful brochure advertising dance for special events, weddings, parties and of course an easy
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May 3rd, 2011
A bright attention-getting site to tell people about your services. Clear, easy to navigate menu, photos of you at work, a description of your business, a contact form, a map, hours of operation, a testimonial page: everything to tell clients about who you are and what you do.
April 26th, 2011
A women’s health care group needs a calm, professional, welcoming site which invites women to call for an appointment. Lots of information, medical forms, new patient forms, background bios of the physicians and nursing assistants, all find room in this flexible, easy to update site.
April 26th, 2011
Gateway Organic Farm is one of our favorite clients. We updated and added a blog, a PAYPAL gateway, schedules for weekly vegetable pick up, and continuous fresh local news about this family farm. Eye-catching design, with images of the farmer, his wife and their grandchildren, a clean green navigation bar, easy to download applications to
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March 25th, 2011
Display your beautiful craftsmanship with a well designed and easy to click through PHOTO SLIDER. This hardwood flooring company changed from a photo gallery based on TABLES with tiny thumbnail pictures, to a sliding photo gallery, with all the thumbnails on the bottom of the gallery. This allows for total accessibility, total visibility, and a
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May 5th, 2012
Clear admin alert IFiles Changed: 4 Files Added: 0 Files Removed: 0 Imagine getting an email nitification every time any of your files changed — as I have gotten this am. Why is there a change on an old valentine image ?? I need to check and find out if there something leaking eh? Files
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April 30th, 2012
Just received a call from a client about her site showing up as having been contaminated by malware. The site was coming up fine on my computer. It was not blacklisted on Google. It was not visible as having any problems on the server… THEN, I went to http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/scanner/ and found to my mixed delight
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April 24th, 2012
Google celebrates the father of the zipper, Gideon Sundback (April 24, 1880 – June 21, 1954).
March 25th, 2012
One of the revisions recommended by SEO experts is adding alt attributes to images. According to Google [webmaster guidelines], the ’alt’ or alternative text should convey the same information or serve the same function as the image. In other words, the alt attribute does not describe or label the image: it takes the place of
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February 19th, 2012
“Cultivation of Authority is the Goal of SEO” –From the makers of SEO Ultimate Plugin, who have been perfecting the art for years Optimizing your website stems from the desire to reach the top 3 spots (the traffic band). Getting there is ultimately determined by how authoritative your page is and the website that
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February 12th, 2012
The Huffington Post covers Russian Street Artist Pavel 183 as he paints his huge messages on Moscow pavements, under bridges, across useless and unused buildings. What design can and should be.
February 11th, 2012
AdWords now includes location targeting so you can target ads to very specific locations, which is perfect for professional services (medical, legal, accounting) companies that cater exclusively to local customers. Doctors, for example, can target geographic regions by actually drawing a map around the areas they want to send Google Ads to. AdWords Location Targeting
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February 1st, 2012
Optimizing Error Pages: Creating Opportunities Out Of Mistakes By Daniel Waisberg
January 27th, 2012
It is important for designers to exclude their own ip address (and the ip address of their clients) from Google Analytics results. Google explains how to do this very simply. How to set up a filter in Google Analytics Also here’s a wonderful article in much more detail about how to remove your ip from
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January 2nd, 2012
There are two sites for a hardwood floor company: a full site and a mobile site. 1. First, you need a script that redirects mobile users to the mobile site. We used Chris Coyier’s clever solution: tell any device with a screen less than 699 pixels wide to go to the mobile site! 2. Then,
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• e-commerce web development
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• Using web-related technologies, HTML, PHP, SQL, CSS, jquery, Wordpress
• Designing for usability
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