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Web Design Big Mistakes
Before you decide on a web designer or web design company in the Raleigh-Durham area, check and see if any of these mistakes are obvious on their website or portfolio: Not Optimizing for Search Engines Ask your web designer about search engine optimization. Ask him how he plans to optimize your site. Search engine optimization [...]
WordPress as CMS
WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform not just a blogging tool. It has won 2009 Best Open Source CMS Award. When quality websites for low prices is your business model, it makes sense to use the best, most cost efficient publishing tool available, WordPress. Because WordPress powered websites are easy to develop, and from the [...]
Online Advertising – PPC
Small business owners from Raleigh-Durham and Triangle Area start moving their advertising budgets, from Yellow Pages and newspaper ads, online. More than that, businesses that never had big budgets for advertising, start advertising online on Google and Yahoo for as low as $10 per day. Google AdWords and Yahoo Search Marketing can have a big [...]
Free Templates Are Not For Everyone
Templates are great tools when developing a website that is easy to update and maintain. The internet is full of great looking templates and themes, sometimes even developed by recognized, award winning designers. Building a website from a template, theoretically can save a great deal of time and money. But what if your ideas and [...]
Real Estate Web Design
Most of Triangle real estate websites are missing the point: They are not user friendly They do not respect usability rules They do not respect the web standards (valid CSS/HTML) They are not optimized for search engines They do not have a good identity Realtors and real estate web agencies alike, treat real estate web [...]
SEO Misunderstood
Before we get to it, first of all, we are not a SEO company. In fact we believe that SEO it’s totally misunderstood. SEO means better web design. It means to present your information properly for search engines and visitors at the same time. The other day I ran across a local car dealer website. [...]
Selecting a Web Designer
The most important thing when considering a web designer is the quality of his portfolio. But the quality comes with a price. Sure, if we will charge $10,000 for a website, we are sure the website will get awarded and recognized by the professionals. But is this what the client really wants? He wants a [...]
Better Image Redesign
Although the old, award winning design, was not so bad, we concluded that a web design company should show its clients and potential customers that it can keep up the pace with the latest design trends and technologies. We decided to use WordPress because it is the best publishing platform from the esthetics point of [...]
Google Takes Action Against SEOs
Recently, Google modified their search algorithm in order to obstruct the selling and exchanging of links. They penalized big sites like WRAL (CBS and FOX Raleigh local station) and even Forbes and Washington Post. As a result, their Page Rank went from 7 to 4 or 5. Therefore their selling links model is hence dead. [...]
Benefits of CMS
Having a static website in this Web 2.0 environment can easily make your website to lose interest. Users will get bored with it and do not have any incentive to come back. Updating a static website will cost you time and money, and in the long run even customers. How good will it be if [...]