Website Design

Great Content Makes a Difference to a Website

March 7, 2012

If you can create content once a week for your blog website it will pay off. The posts you make should answer people’s questions about your business. While hopefully you are an expert in your field how often do you share your knowledge? I would bet if you were trying to sell your goods you [...]

Five Tips For SEO and building a website (my pet peeves)

March 5, 2012

1) Don’t have a splash page – besides being so 1995 it is terribly annoying. You will lose a ton of traffic; statistics show the average user gives you ten seconds before clicking to another site. Make me wait… Bye 2) Frames – sorry has your web designer ever read information on frames. Search engines [...]

What are Rich Snippets?

January 31, 2012

Rich snippets made their introduction in the beginning of 2009 and yet it is still new to many web designers. As business owners we have so much to learn to stay on top of new technology, marketing, social media and new code like HTML 5. But rich snippets also known as micro data, micro formats [...]

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Getty Images Warning

January 8, 2012

In this age of Google Images the way that people can find images is easier then ever. However that doesn’t mean they are there for the taking and too many people search and take what they need for everything from homework assignments to websites and advertising. As a website designer I am here to provide [...]

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What Is a Robot.txt File?

November 2, 2011

A robot.txt file is like a party invitation to the search engines. It is a file kept on the root of a website that can contain one line of code inviting the robots to review your site and index your pages or it can disallow them to index certain parts of your website. Confused? Why [...]

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Website Report Card – How Do You Rate?

October 2, 2011

Rack card – Your website usability checklist – menus consistent – browsers – iPad / pod viewing Outline – report card website review Menu              Consistent            Intuitive             Top/Side navigation            Footer navigation          [...]

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