How To Improve Your Web Content
As a follow up to yesterday’s post “Does Your Message Sell” I thought I would post some helpful ideas on how to improve your actual webpage content. So you’ve looked at the content on your website and decided it needs some work to help get your message across to your visitors and to help increase […]
Does Your Message Sell?
It seems many times that I have had a customer tell me exactly how they want their site to look (add 5px of padding to that paragraph or move that picture up and over to the right just a smidgen) and never give a second thought to their actual message. My job as a web […]
Should I Clean Out My E-mail List?
I have written before about how e-mail marketing is still going strong. A year ago when I started this business I would have told a client with a new website that if they wanted to start a blog they could use that to replace their e-mail marketing efforts. Well live and learn. E-mail marketing is […]
What’s Important For SEO?
Sometimes when designing a new site for a client it’s hard to get them to consider SEO as an important factor. Sure they will give it lip service “We want our site to be easily found on the search engines”, but when you explain to them what it takes you get the nodding of the […]
Cool New Free Tool – Google Website Optimizer
Are you interested in purchasing clicks, but aren’t sure if it’s worth it. I have written before and advised my customers who buy keywords about click fraud and that the best way to deal with fraud is to know yourself if your ads are worth buying by tracking your ads and conversions. Put simply if […]
Don’t Link To Other Peoples Images
You should never steal other peoples bandwidth by linking to images on their website. If you are allowed to use their images on your site the correct way to do it is to copy the image to your site and then put it into your web page. There have been several occasions where I have […]
What Keywords Do I Pick?
So you are designing your site and you want to be found on the search engines for certain keywords. You are not going to be found for these words if they are not in your headlines and main content. So what keywords do you choose? You want them to be relevant to your site, but […]
More Photoshop Tutorials
I am always on the lookout for good sites with Photoshop and The Gimp tutorials. I love playing around with the tricks that I find and when I post a link to them here on my blog they are always very popular posts. Todays site is called PhotoshopCAFE and they offer free Photoshop training. Just […]
Should My Business Have A Blog?
I recently ran into the “Fortune 500 Business Blogging Wiki” which lists the blogs of the biggest companies on the planet. I thought that I would have a look at them and see what I could learn from “The Big Boys”. McDonalds had some good posts on ethical/animal rights issues that I read, Kodak had […]
Web 2.0 how-to design style guide
One of my favorite sites to visit is Web Designs From Scratch. Their view of the web has always been close to mine and I have often looked to this site for inspiration. There was a recent post called “Web 2.0 how-to design style guide” and even though I hate the name Web 2.0 and […]
