You might not know this but for most of my 20’s I was pursuing a career of being a professional Opera Singer.During this time I had the opportunity to travel the world to places like Italy, Germany and Austria learning from the some of the best musicians...
If you want to measure website performance, one of your more valuable tools is Google Analytics. There, you can measure traffic, its source, and what people do once they click through to your site. Each of Google Analytic’s metrics provides you with valuable...
The first step in building a website is to register your domain name and the second, and arguably the most important is to find a good web host. While domain registry is pretty straightforward, web hosting is not. More often than not, you get what you pay for...
Here are 3 FREE resources you can use to gain insight into competing websites. You’ll find out important information you can use to your advantage.How much traffic do they get each month?What is the demographic of their audience?Which other websites are related...
NOT ALL WEB HOSTS ARE THE SAME! When it comes to slow page loading speeds, it probably has nothing to do with your web design. You can optimize, compress, and cache all you want. However, if your host is not top-notch, speed issues can be created by a...
The most important step in creating a website comes before your developer ever writes a single line of code. In order to build the best possible website, you should first create a website sitemap. Failure to properly develop a sitemap causes many projects to...
Typically, the task of redesigning the company website falls to someone in the Marketing Department. If you think about it, the marketing team is the best choice, because the ‘marketing first’ approach to website redesign is the best strategy for success. The...
Today, thanks to the emerging technology that makes us do almost everything online. The most exciting field is web design. Although you need to consider the cost of creating your website, but the biggest issue is website design inspiration.How do you know if...
Google plays a major role in the success of a website. Whether you like it or not, Google has and always been the platform where people go to find what they are looking for.Suffice to say, if you’re doing great on Google, you can expect to have plenty of...
In the Spring of 2017 Google announced a free multivariate testing tool called Optimize. Before the launch of Optimize, website owners only had the option of paying for A/B testing tools like Optimizely or Nellio. It is true that these plugins offer a few more...
Business owners need to keep an eye on their bottom line. For the short-sighted entrepreneur, this means purchasing a cheap website. But, for those with vision, they know that their website is a tool for business growth. Instead of shopping for cheap websites,...
A lot of people have a hard time articulating what they like or don’t like about a website design. Whether it’s your existing site or a brand new Mock-Up, you need to know how to tell your web designer what you like and what you don’t. To help you communicate...
If your website is not ranking in Google, then one of the first things you need to check is its speed. To improve the user experience, Google penalizes sites that don’t load in under 3 seconds. Rather than assume you need to improve the search engine...
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but these days most stock photo websites bring one word to mind.Meh.Or perhaps blah.In any case, it’s hard to find great looking stock photos. It’s even more difficult to find great looking stock photos that are...
As a website designer, I need to make sure that my client’s sites render well across all browsers. I pay particular attention to how websites look on Internet Explorer.How Websites Look on Internet ExplorerWhat a lot of people don’t realize is that Internet...
Think Google is the only search engine worth your SEO efforts? Think again. While many website owners are laser-focused on climbing Google’s ranks, savvy entrepreneurs are tapping into a hidden gem: Bing. No, we aren’t talking about that Bing. We’re talking...
You’re searching your phone, riding on the bus, desperately trying to find that discounted matching pajama set you saw last week, purchase it, and stop by the store for pick up so you don’t show up empty-handed for grandma’s holiday dinner. But the confusing...
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a complex and ever-evolving field that can certainly be confusing for beginners, and understandably so. With over 200 ranking factors and new “rules” being added by search engines all the time, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed....