When designing a web site one of the first things to consider is the colors needed for the web site. If you know a little about color theory you already know that colors need to work in harmony with each-other, which in short means that they need to be balanced and look good together. To…
If you are a new web designer you may have been faced with the question of how to create attractive buttons for inclusion on web pages? Since most web designers are primarily coders, this can be a challenge, even for those who do have a bit of understanding on how to edit photos effectively. If…
A question I am often asked is where to get stock photos? When looking for photos and images there are a lot of stock photo sources available. Some of these are free, but as one would expect the free options will generally have less available, be of inferior quality, require a copyright notice applied to…
For those of you who use us for hosting, or use cPanel with another provider, you have may have noticed some changes. Not long back cPanel upgraded to version 11.34, and with this came a variety of enhancements. If you are not familiar with cPanel it allows website owners can easily manage their email accounts,…
Online security is important! I have been Online since the WEB was first available, and rarely a day goes by where someone hasn’t tried to compromise my business website, Spam my blog, or seek to acquire personal information from some form of social engineering attack. Many of my clients send me emails they receive and…
If you visit most retailers you will find that they are already playing Christmas music. This is a good example of how merchants are already gearing up for the holiday season. While I personally prefer to hear and see holiday promotion efforts after November 25th, I do think that most businesses should begin planning their…
Social Media is important … by now, I trust everyone who has a business website knows this statement to be true. The problem for many is deciding on what options to choose (there are many), and how to set-up and manage the accounts. As for options, following I have listed my suggestions based upon their popularity…
In a recent blog post “Facebook Likes Incentives” I noted an example by Fat’s restaurant in Sacramento to get Facebook “likes”. From my discussion with clients about social media marketing I know that many of you are interested in getting more interest, both Likes and Shares in your pages. As I explained in this previous…
I’ve talked about the importance of social media endorsement of your pages in previous posts and in our newsletter. While Facebook “Shares” are still the most important consideration do to its popularity, it is time to start taking Google Plus seriously, especially considering how integrated Google is in other key Google applications such as the…
When it comes to great web pages, the ones that really catch our eye are those that have good photos. Whether a photo is “good” or not may seem obvious, yet I can tell you from experience that few people really spend much time in consideration of the images added; they simply use what’s easily…