Web Design
Can Web Design Be Funny?
Friday, October 8th, 2010It was just about 6pm and I was ready to shut down the computer and head off to make dinner when I received an email from a magazine editor kindly alerting me to typos on my blog. This was in line with the day I was having so I was hardly surprised. I was ready [...]
Help! My designer is holding me hostage.
Thursday, December 16th, 2010Most of the clients that come my way are for redesigns. These clients happen to be some of my favorites because, A. they know what they don’t like and B. we already know what isn’t working for them. Most of the projects are dream jobs. The ones that aren’t are the ones coming from bad [...]
5 Ways to Increase Ecommerce Sales
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011So you have an ecommerce site that is attracting customers but sales could be better. Here are some tips that can help you convert the casual shopper into a customer, increase number of purchases and make more sales. Keep it clean. Keep it simple. Keep your ecommerce site design clean and simple. Many ecommerce website [...]
Googles own Matt Cutts talks about how to get better google listings.
Saturday, February 26th, 2011Best Practices For Magazine Website Design
Saturday, April 17th, 2010Sometimes it’s hard to march to a different beat. Especially when the beat is an oldie but goodie. This seems particularly true for publishers trying to transition from print to web. Too many magazines have yet to build an online presence and most of the ones that have are ignoring many, if not all of [...]
Organic SEO Building a Search Engine Friendly Website
Friday, April 16th, 2010Chances are, if you own a website you know that having a good SEO rank doesn’t just happen. It takes work to build a search engine friendly site and a layered approach tends to work best. Here are some essentials for building a search engine optimized, SEO website. SEF URL’s Also known as permalinks. SEF [...]
Getting your site Listed with major search engines: Google, Yahoo, Windows Live & Ask
Saturday, April 17th, 2010A request from every website owner is “Can you list my site on Google?” So, for all you do-it-yourselfers, here’s the easy guide to getting listed on the major search engines including, Google, Windows Live, Yahoo and Ask. 1. First you need to build a sitemap of your site. There are plenty of free sitemap [...]
Four things your website probably isn’t doing.
Saturday, April 17th, 20101. Building a following. Most websites lose out on the opportunity to save some marketing dollars by not having a “sign up” form or registration section on their website. Whether it’s a “’sign up for our newsletter”, “sign up for updates and specials” or simply a register to post comments button doesn’t really matter. The [...]
Signs your website is seriously dated.
Saturday, April 17th, 2010Most of my clients, I’ll guesstimate nearly 85 – 90%, come to me for a web site redesign. I love redesigns because the client has already had some web experience and kind of knows what they like and don’t like. Also, it lets me see what they were thinking the first time around and really [...]
Content Management Systems – Is One Right For Your Business
Saturday, April 17th, 2010A common request I hear often from clients is “We need a site we can update ourselves.” Maybe they had a site in the past with a web designer that was unresponsive or slow getting their work up. Or maybe, they might be so darn excited at the prospect of having their own website that [...]