New Blog Design

We would like to apologize for the long wait. It has been four long months and we are excited to finally transfer our blog from Wordpress. Wordpress was a great tool for us and served its purpose. We still believe that Wordpress is a fabulous tool and is a great blog software. However, at this point we wanted a more complete integration of our site and blog.

Our site is now completely and seamlessly integrated into our blog. No more dual logins and separate databases. The migration was not that difficult, but definitely worth the hassle.

We realized after our site redesign in January that our blog would need to become an integrated part of our site.

10 Tips for selling web design.

One of the most difficult things to do when selling anything is educating the client. Disclaimer: I am not a sales expert, let’s get that straight now. I am however experienced at seeing the process happen. And that’s one of the only things I can claim - my experience.

"Jack of all trades, master of none?"

Just a few days ago I was reading Authentic Boredom, Cameron Moll’s blog. He had just posted an entry titled, "Designer, Coder: Separate roles or one?" and I found it very interesting. The gist of his entry was asking whether Designers are as effective coding (front end coding - HTML/CSS) their own designs as a separate design/code team.

Does your website work for you?

After all, what is the purpose of a website? To dominate your industry, of course. Along with that comes many great and wonderful benefits like, traffic. We all know that with traffic comes increased business. Well, if everyone thought in terms of what was possible with a website there would be a shortage of web designers and developers. To this day it is still an enigma - why people don’t want a quality website. I know I’m not the first to bring this up and most definitely won’t be the last.

I heard some very disturbing and shocking comments while meeting with a potential client.

SEO Pitfalls and Other Common Mistakes

This is going to be short. I promise. I don't consider myself an authority on SEO. I'll leave that to Matt Cutts, Aaron Wall, and the others. The point of my post today is to alert people of the pitfalls of do-it-yourself SEO. It can be done, but it's almost always more beneficial to have a professional do the work. I'll just list these out very simply for you to gander at:

1. Content - Content problems fall into pretty much two categories: 1) Duplicate or boiler-plate content, something that came ready-made in that frankensteined template you call a website. 2) No content is almost as bad.