Build A Better Web Site
What does it take to build a better web site? Do you need to be flashier? Do you need to have bells and whistles? Should it have music playing? Do you need to cram it full of links? No. Actually the best web sites are often the simplest. And the simplest thing to do is […]
Beginner’s Guide to SEO
I’ve been surprised lately about the widely different ideas that customers bring to the table about what SEO is. Search Engine Optimization is, in a nutshell getting your site optimized for the search engines. One of the first things I ask clients is where they’ve used the key words they think they’re targeting on their […]
Search Engines and URLs
Search engines from Google to Accona (yes, there’s a search engine called Accona) to Yahoo like to look at the URLs on your site. So you should pay attention to what is happening with your URLs. But let’s start at the beginning. What is a URL (sometimes pronounced U – R – L and sometimes […]
Searching in a Cloud
Came across a fascinating web site that I want to share with you. I have several friends who are very visual people. They love to diagram things. Several of them love to use a visual mind mapping tool that puts words all over the place – helping them to group key ideas and just see […]
Title Tags for Web Pages
One of the things that many people overlook when creating their web site is coming up with good title tags. First let me make sure we are on the same page. A title tag is the title of the page that appears at the very top of the browser window. For example, if you visit […]
Web Site Usability Testing
Have you ever tested your web site to see if it actually works? We’ve seen some beautifully designed web sites that just don’t work. This goes back, in part to my last blog on having a Call to Action on each page. But it also goes beyond that. Once you have a call, you have […]
Create a Call to Action
We build a lot of web sites. We also rebuild a lot of web sites. And I can tell you that a lot of web sites don’t have a clear focus. A well-designed web site needs to have a clearly defined call to action for each and every page. There might be several different calls […]
Make Your Site the Centerpiece
One of the most unusual aspects of a company having a web site is that the site can be a great marketing tool for the business but that site needs its own marketing plan (which should dovetail with a bigger company marketing campaign). If you set your web site as the centerpiece of your marketing, […]
10. How Can I Use Word-Of-Mouth Marketing to Improve My Web Site?
The 10th question in our 10 questions to ask when you’re ready to take your site to the next level is probably THE most important question around today. Word of Mouth marketing. I’m a pretty good customer. When I’m happy with a business, I will go out of my way to tell others about it. […]
9. Does your site need a shopping cart?
For the most part this seems like a simple question. If you sell stuff, you should have a site. If you sell any kind of product it makes sense. This includes video and audio that can be downloaded. We recently finished a suite of sites that includes http://www.mythicyoga.com. From this site you can purchase real […]
