Frequent Questions asked of a Web Designer

How do you (Perugi Design) begin the website process?We always start with free consulting over the phone and an online questionnaire. Potential clients will receive a proposal with references and samples of work I think relates to your business. After reading a...

Create a Post Instead of a Page

When I meet with ongoing clients, they sometimes tell me they want to make a new page to introduce new services or products. I encourage them to do so, and if they need a refresher on how to do this themselves, I am happy to help. Recently, a client in the whole...

Get Involved With Your New Website

Good web designers don’t work in a vacuum. When you start your discussion, they will ask you what you want to achieve with your new website, who your customers are and what you have in mind. Website content, consisting of photos, text and graphics need to be...

Take advantage of a guest posting in WordPress

What do you do if an associate asks you if they can interview you for a profile on their website? Do not hesitate and say yes as I did when Danielle Blanchette of CPA Advisors asked me. I wrote out their questionnaire and didn’t hear back. But eventually, I got...

Why https is in your future

Not noticeable but important You probably didn’t notice that my website is sporting the https feature in the browser address. I wondered for awhile whether it was worth it for me to go the extra step and get one. Now I see Google is preferring that you do. An...

Your Online Listings Can Be Causing You Trouble

Speaking of Inbound Marketing (last month’s post), what about the online search engines where your business is listed such as Google, AOL, and Yahoo? There are many of them, including ones you never heard of, i.e. alltheweb, About.com, and Dogpile and others you...

Amazing SEO Tool in Maintenance Plan

Perugi Design uses a powerful new tool that reports website data on everthing from latest backups to SEO standings. On the SEO report page for Perugi Design, it gave me a flow chart of how my website has performed over the past month. (See image below on left). You...

Google making big algorithm change April 21

Your website’s page rank can be affected by the next major algorithm set to change on April 21. The main thing you need to know is that if your site is not Mobile Friendly, your site is set to move to the bottom of the search list. Many themes in WordPress are...

Why bounce rate is the best Google Analytics metric

A few months back I talked about how to know when to update your website. The general rule is to update after three years. A lot can change in that time, and you may not be aware of what you can do to keep up. Two important ways are: 1. Running a Responsive theme and...