Like We've Been Saying... Our motto this year has definitely been "it takes a team" because to create a website today, you do need a team of experts. I ran across this article today and almost jumped out of my seat: It Takes a Village – or at Least a Team - to Build Successful […]
To Increase Rankings, Get Writing I haven't written about website content for a while, so it's time to circle back to it. As you know, there are a lot of factors that go into making a great website. There are technical things like website speed, DNS, SSL and so forth as well as design considerations […]
"Badges? We DO Need Those Stinking Badges!" Hopefully, there are still some people out there that get that Blazing Saddles reference! I remember in the 1990s how getting a badge on your website was a sneaky way for the website offering the badge to get links and the badges didn't mean much. Thank God those […]
Little Things Make a Difference Here's an example of "you get what you pay for" when it comes to website design. It's about what might be considered to be "the smaller things" which are what to label buttons and other "call to action" (CTA) statements on your website. The generic "Click Here" statement is usually […]
Make Your Website Load Faster With One, Simple Change I was looking at a client's website today and noticed something that would help it load faster. This client manages DNS and their hosting themselves. If we were managing it, I would have just taken care of it without bothering her. Here's an excerpt of the […]
Good, Fast or Cheap? When looking for website design, do you want good, fast or cheap? You can only pick 2 of the 3, so which do you want? I found an article that dovetails on what I wrote the other day here: How Does the Website Design Process Work? (webstix.com) If you want a […]
What is Author Rank and how does it differ from Google Authorship? There has been a lot of talk about Google removing the Google Authorship images from search results. We at Webstix have closely monitored the changes and behavior of Google Authorship and Author Rank on search from the start. We have even shared how […]
"How Quickly Can a Website be Made?" With every project we get, we're always asked how soon it can be done. This is a tough question to answer usually - not that we don't know... we know. The tough part is explaining how it'll take time and see how a client might look disappointed when […]
Let's Take Another Look at Responsive and SEO As you may know, a website using responsive design (click to find out more) works well on whatever device it's being viewed on because it responds to the screen size of the device. This is in contrast with adaptive website design, which most people know as a […]
What Information Should be on a Website? Big announcement! Your home page isn't special. Yeah, that's right... it's just another page. Sure, it's a page that's linked to a lot and it's a page that most business owners send people to but if you look at your website traffic, most people are not starting on […]
