Check Out Their Site First
A couple of years ago I was approached by another website “designer” because he supposedly had too much work and wanted to outsource some of the overflow. I had just started my business and sure needed the work so I agreed to look at what he had. The first thing I did was go to […]
Words Or Pictures Of Words?
I answered a question the other day from someone who was wondering why they were not getting any traffic from Google. When I looked at their first page I could see right away what the problem was. The entire page was one big picture. It was chopped up into smaller slices to help it load […]
Make Sure That Your Content Is On Your Site
I noticed a discussion on LinkedIn today about whether you blogs URL should look like this www.myblog.blogspot.com or like this www.mydomain.com/blog. Some people couldn’t understand the difference and others didn’t think that it mattered. Well, there is a difference and it does matter. The Difference… When you are looking to see who owns a website […]
How To Be Found On A Local Search
There are many businesses that don’t benefit much from visitors that are far away finding their site. Things like pizza shops or car dealers who may get a tiny percent of their sales from a thousand miles away, but the vast majority come from a mile or two radius. In addition any business will benefit […]
Let’s Help Norway Give IE6 The Boot
One of the things that I do when I design a site is that I look at it in many different browsers. Your site can look much different in each one. One of the worst has always been Internet Explorer. When I am browsing the web for work or pleasure I prefer Firefox, which is […]
Another Made Up Holiday – Open That Bottle Night
I just answered a question the other day on LinkedIn that asked “What Is Your #1 Favorite Shoestring Marketing Strategy?” I answered that one of my favorite strategies is to invent a new holiday or align with one that is not very popular. I have been celebrating Talk Like A Pirate Day for a couple […]
Great Free Tool, 224 Pure CSS Layouts
Here’s a wonderful page with a collection of 224 full Grade-A browser supported CSS layouts. That means these layouts will look the same in almost any browser. This is a wonderful tool for anyone who is making a website. They are free for you to use and I highly recommend them. These layouts are done […]
Do As I Say, Not As I Do and Test Everything
I was working on a site for a new customer and they asked for a contact form on their site. Not a big deal, it’s something that I have done dozens of times before. This time I did something that made me quite embarrassed. Let me start by saying that when I design a site […]
Scrolling Image Trick
My main tag line for my web design business and my site is “Simple can be Good”. I have always believed that more often than not the simplest solution to any problem is the best one. That the more that you complicate things the more there is to go wrong. The simple solution is also […]
Think Before You Email
I was speaking with a customer the other day about ways that he could use email marketing to promote his business. He was belt tightening like most businesses today and he finally realized the possible value and low cost of this kind of promotion. When I first built his site he asked for and I […]
