Find Answers to Your Website Problems

After your WordPress website is published, whether it is brand new or a few years old, you need to be sure it is cared for. Most website owners don’t log into the dashboard very often, especially if they aren’t writing posts. And It is understandable that...

What to Do When You Get a Bad Review

Here’s a tip based on an experience I had last week. In the middle of a visit with my family from out of town, a woman calls up to ask me about web design. Right away, I’m not sure she is very serious because she is calling for her mother, who is the one...

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...

Pick the Best Colors for your Website

Where do you start with color? Choosing colors for your website is an important first step to designing a modern looking website and one that will evoke the right feeling or appropriate response. Some web designers offer a client several color palettes (or mood...

Why Website Design is a Service and not a Product

I read somewhere that people might think that a website is a product that they buy. They look to fInd a company that gives it to them for the least amount. But it’s not like that. Website Design is a service that takes many hours of work. If you are receiving...

Know Your Audience, Know Your Market

Before creating a new website, updating one or doing any marketing, know your audience. It is the “Key to Success” according to Forbes Entrepreneurs in an article from several years back by Jayson DeMyers. It still remains true and why I want to write...

Fundraising Focus – New Company With Good Planning

Susan Stendahl has helped nonprofits find their fundraising focus. “Her deep-rooted involvement in the nonprofit arena spans two decades, a broad mix of organizations and a diverse array of engagements involving nearly all aspects of nonprofit...

Schoen Photography is Now Ready for Mobile

Robert Schoen is a exceptional professional photographer who needed a new website that would work on mobile. His old site was hobbling along with a mobile ready plugin, that was anything but ready. He wanted something clean and uncluttered, so that his expert...

Tip on writing content – don’t use the passive voice

Yoast, the most popular SEO plugin, sent a post recently that applies to many of us trying to write for our web site. The author, Jesse van der Halsbeek, states that writing in the passive voice is bad for SEO. Here, as quoted, he explains why and gives some examples....