The Saints have won the Super Bowl, but that is not the glimpse that I am referring to in this post. As part of the celebration, WWLTV.com posted headlines from newspapers & websites from around the world. Notice, I said headlines from websites. Of the 43 headlines, about one-third of them were from websites. This [...]
Category Archives: Web Design
Google Hints at Speed Requirements
December 29, 2009 – 11:52 am
This past week, in an interview with Web Pro News, Matt Cutts from Google hinted that the load time of your page may become a factor in page ranking.
Google hasn’t released all of the details, and they probably won’t (we still don’t know the exact algorithms Google uses to determine page rank – it’s a [...]
How to Hire a Web Design Firm (part 2)
December 10, 2009 – 7:51 pm
We left off on the original post about about this great article “How to Hire a Web Design Firm” (original article) at number 5 (read part 1).
5 ) How will you incorporate search engine optimization principles into my site?
This question is vitally important for your website, especially if you are a new business or in [...]
Google’s Attack on Retail Businesses through Word of Mouth
November 25, 2009 – 5:28 pm
New Orleans City Business posted an article yesterday that has the web development & business community in a tither. The article is about Google’s new Sidewiki.
This can be detrimental to small businesses because it will show user reviews in the sidebar while reviewing a business’ website. We all know an upset customer yells louder & [...]
Word Press, the CMS of choice
November 25, 2009 – 4:37 pm
Chances are you’ve heard the word “blog.” Chances are you’ve heard of Word Press. Some of you may have blogs on your own site. You might even use Word Press as a blogging platform for your own blogging needs. But chances are you don’t know that Word Press can be used as a content management [...]
How to Hire A Web Design Firm (Part 1)
November 24, 2009 – 1:04 pm
My colleague sent me a wonderful article about hiring a web design firm that debunked the myth that everyone can design websites and proved that generally, you get what you pay for. I understand that we are in the business of designing websites and that there is competition out there. This competition is good and [...]
A New Way of Testing Things
November 5, 2009 – 12:08 pm
Ok, so I’m a bit of a geek when it comes to cross-browser compatibility testing. When I say geek, I mean I get excited when I find a tool that makes cross browser testing less painful and allows me to maintain a seated position while browser testing.
I’m talking about a tool that makes it easier [...]
Beta This
July 11, 2009 – 10:57 am
After 5 years, Google finally drops the “Beta” tag from it’s email service – Gmail. The beta tag on nearly everything has been a joke in our office with all of the web designers and programmers. Why would a large company such as Google or Yahoo beta test a program for over a year, let [...]
We Don’t Need a Web Site! Not for what we do!
July 1, 2009 – 10:58 am
I can’t tell you how many times I heard this in the late 90’s “We don’t need a web site!” – I thought it would go away but somehow I still hear it at least once a month.
My simple answer is that if you are in business you better have a web site – and [...]
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