March 8th, 2009
Have you received emails or phone calls promising to get your website listed at the top of a Google search, for a fee? Offering to list your website with thousands of search engines? Unfortunately, these are most often empty promises and meaningless offers. There’s a whole lot of misinformation floating around about search engines, and here we’ll look at a few simple truths to help clear up all the confusion. More…
March 5th, 2009
When you’re considering creating a website, or updating an old one, it’s important to understand a few things about what types of websites exist, how they work, and what they can do. Some websites act simply as online brochures, displaying information laid out like a printed brochure, and updatable by your web designer. Others do all sorts of things interactively, such as ebay or Amazon.com. Here we’ll look at what the differences are between these types of websites, and hopefully with more insight you’ll be better able to choose an approach that works for your business or organization. More…
March 3rd, 2009
So, you’ve hired a professional web designer to create a website for you, and you’re ready to own a website that looks beautiful and functions smoothly. Congratulations! But what happens when you want to update the text on one or more pages? How about images? What if you want to remove a page, add a page, and shuffle things around? If you want the power to do that yourself, you’ll need a content management system. More…