The homepage of your website is often the page many visitors will go to first. So, when designing your website, it is important to follow a few basic principles to engage your visitors. Remember, most people will decide within 3 to 5 seconds whether they want to stay...
As 2014 comes to a close, it seems like it's a good time to throw out my thoughts on what I think the trends in website design are going to be in 2015. Many of them began their rise in popularity over the past couple of years, and I predict they will continue to grow....
Everyone told you you should use WordPress for your website. They gave you lots of good reasons to use it. So why, now that you have it installed, are you having a hard time with WordPress, and even more importantly, you are questioning why you decided to go this...
I hear it a lot. "My business is small." "I don't think a small business website even matters." "Why would a small business have a website?" This is actually an important and frequently asked question in our digital age. A lot of small business owners think a website...
Should I build my website using WIX? This question was posed to me recently by a friend. So, I told her I would turn it into a blog post! There are many easy to use hosted web platform builders out there – WIX, SquareSpace, Web.com, Weebly and even Blogger.com, if you...
Search engine optimization, better known as SEO, has one goal – to drive qualified traffic to your website and generate leads and sales for your business. When developing a strategy for your online marketing, which will often include social media, content distribution...
Sometimes company's create websites with every intention of keeping them fresh, relevant and updated, but life gets in the way and updating the website ends up being the last thing on the mind of busy professionals. Other times companies simply build a website and...
One thing I stress heavily to my web design clients is the importance of maintaining and renewing their domain name when it comes up for yearly renewal. All too often people forget to take care of this and then spend a lot of time and money trying to fix it, many...
No one likes to visit a website and then be made to sit and wait while it loads in their browser. Slow website load times can really kill a company's revenue stream, causing them to lose valuable potential customers and clients who are made to sit and wait while their...
Responsive website design. If you have been looking to hire a website designer or developer recently, I'm sure you have run across the term "responsive website design" more than a few times. You may be wondering exactly what the term "responsive website design" means....
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