One of the most popular requests I have been receiving for web design has been for a blog. The reason people seem to be asking for this is because they are being told by others that it is a good source of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and will lead to them being prominent on Google. This can be true but you should realize that a blog isn’t going to automatically do this for you. Your blog needs frequent, informative posts to be worth anything on your website. Continue reading »

The key to designing a good website is to have a plan in place and execute it. What seems to happen with many new websites being subpar is the lack of an ingredient in the formula. Sometimes you will find a functional website that is ugly as sin, other times you will have a beautiful website with archaic or useless functions. Then there are the ones who have a bit of both but no direction, they either have way too many options or a lack thereof. Nothing is worst than a confusing website, especially those that ion loses you when you can’t figure out how to navigate to the particular pages. Maybe he has a hieroglyph to represent “About Us” but you don’t think to rollover it to see if it will give you the English variation. This is a complex problem being that it can either be the fault of the overbearing Art Director, the naïve Web Designer or the hands-on business owner who knows nothing of the Web but thinks he does. When the problem does arise however, everybody loses, the Art director will blame the Web Designer, the Web designer will not get a referral and the business owner will receive zero return on investment. So how do you avoid this? Continue reading »