In the course of the average month, I usually look at more than a hundred Facebook fan pages. I click “like” on some and pass on the rest. Lately, I’ve been noticing something troubling. Too many businesses are making Facebook pages, posting for a day, a week, or a month, then losing interest . Read…
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E-Commerce: It’s Not For Everyone
The early days of online sales were an era unrealistic expectations. I remember people saying, “I can sell to people all over the world.” Too often they didn’t realize they’d also have to compete with merchants all over the world. Since then, things really haven’t changed much. Read the full post
What a Small Business Really NEEDS in a Website
Let’s say you have a small business or professional office. You’re not going to do e-commerce. You won’t be taking payments online. You won’t be communicating with clients or customers directly through your website. You just want to establish your online presence. What do you really need in a website? Read the full post
Why you need to care about mobile users.
I recently came across this article, “20 Mind-Blowing Mobile Marketing Statistics Every Marketer Should Know” while browsing Twitter and wanted to elaborate on some of the statistics. We provide mobile and responsive web design, however a lot of folks are still under the impression that the mobile market doesn’t matter. Hopefully this article and the…
Doing e-commerce? Are you PCI Compliant?
Back on January 1st, 2011 the credit card industry rolled out mandatory PCI Compliance for both e-commerce and traditional brick and mortar merchants who accept credit cards. Here we are 2 years later and many business owners delving into doing business online and obtaining a merchant account are still unaware of what steps they need…
Help! My site has spam links on it!
We’ve had a number of clients hit us up and tell us that their website has spam links on it. After hearing this a number of times and being unable to find any spam links or adware/malware actually on the site, we knew something else had to be up. Having not encountered it personally and…
Every F****** Website: The NSFW Secrets of Web Design
Not long ago, I was sent a link to everyf******website.com, a satire site that, like all good satire, has a fair amount of truth in it. Before you click through I’ll warn you. There aren’t any ***** to be found. If you’re squeamish, maybe you’d better just move on. I haven’t been squeamish since c1972…
Are You Ready To Get Social?
Previously, I wrote about the allure of website-tech “bells and whistles”, and provided a few more than $.02 on how to determine the elements actually worth including on your site, as well as some ways to leverage them effectively. Related posts: Free Simple Social Media Icon Set Newsletters: Do you need one? The DIY Dilemma:…
Website Tools, Part 1 – Bells & Whistles
In the 1990’s, when the internet as we know it was in its youth, the novelty of the Web Site was reflected in the number of (sometimes literal) bells and whistles often included in its construction. Early users were subjected to a rainbow of exotic fonts, flashing Christmas lights, and bad midi tunes as “designers”…
Free Simple Social Media Icon Set
I wanted a simple, no fancy stuff, social icons set to use and a lot of the ones I was seeing online were not as up to date as I’d have liked or they messed with the look of the company’s logo too much (note: all those companies do have usage requirements for their logos…