What To Send In A Newsletter
I had a customer who wanted to start an email newsletter last year. I installed a mailing list management program and then spent quite a bit of time explaining how I thought sending it should be done. I wanted to pass that information along so I wrote a series of posts on how to start […]
More On The Value Of Social Networking
It never fails. I start to write or wonder about a particular subject and then articles and blog posts start to appear as if by magic. I’m sure it’s just bacause I’m more tuned in to picking out the ones that I’m thinking about from the crowd, but I also wonder if the Law Of […]
Friday Just For Fun Site – Broke? 20 Fun Things to Do Without Spending a Dime
Here’s something just for some fun on a Friday. (Not responsible if you get caught playing at work) Hey, I know it’s Saturday, I’m not that far gone yet. I was working very hard yesterday and I kept telling myself, “just another hour” and I just another houred myself right into Saturday. Today I found […]
Is Social Media Worth The Time?
I have had an account on FaceBook and LinkedIn for quite a while now, but only recently have I started to use them. I also thought about Twitter, but decided that I really only have the time to concentrate on one of them. I picked LinkedIn for that because I thought it was geared more […]
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 […]
Friday Just For Fun Site – Amazing Origami Art
Here’s something just for some fun on a Friday. (Not responsible if you get caught playing at work) Origami has always interested and fascinated me since we spent our first couple of weeks of seventh grade geometry using it to express points, lines, angles and planes. Here are some amazing examples of some of the […]
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 […]
