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What does a website cost?

I had a lovely conversation with a new prospective client last week. We looked at his site and talked about how he didn’t like the Enter button and how the address needed to be updated. Pretty simple...

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Domain Names – Who controls yours?

This subject is probably the most important thing I cover in my seminars and after what I just went through this morning with one of my own clients, it bears repeating again. Just so we’re all on the...

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Never Assume what a Client Understands

Creating a site for a client has to be a collaborative process or neither you nor the client will be happy. I’ve spent the last 5+ years sitting at my computer everyday creating websites for clients....

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How long will it take to create a site?

Along with how much does it cost, the most frequent question I get in my seminar is “How long will it take?”. The truth is that for a smaller site, not that long. Something in the range of 15-25 hours...

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Business & E-Commerce Website Design Best Practices

I get asked about this subject a lot at my seminars and from my clients. I work with what most people would consider micro or small businesses, and while I’ve done some e-commerce work, large complex...

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Preparing Pictures for the Web

A woman who had been to one of my seminars at SCORE wrote the other day: “I am in the process of having a web designer build my site. However, she mentioned that the product pictures that will be on...

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How to Hire a Web Designer

Anyone claiming to be a web designer should have the software and skills necessary to prepare images properly. The question I got asked about preparing the web-ready images (see previous post) got me...

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Trends in Social Networking

(or Ways to Market your Website and How Social Networking can work for a Small Business) [youtube id=wX8m4rh4LNA] I recently spent the weekend at Social Dev Camp Chicago and came away with a lot of...

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Content needs to speak to your audience

I went to a presentation on a really wonderful website; Our Constitutional Rights. This sight was put together by professional ad man turned amateur web guy, who thought it was important that young...

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E-Commerce in WordPress

WordPress is still not ready to be Amazon when it comes to selling things, but in the past few years it’s come a lot closer. Installing a shopping cart plugin and adding products is not that hard....

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WordPress is Not for Everyone

WordPress now powers 22% of the web; an impressive number. So impressive that WordPress has become a buzzword that a lot of people don’t really understand. Every week I get a new request to “convert”...

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Categories, Tags & Taxonomies, Oh my!

Let’s assume that we’re working on a site with more than 5 pages – and that you’re adding posts all the time on your chosen subject matter. As your content grows; users being able to find what they’re...

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Tips for working from home

I’ve been “sheltering in place” for over a decade now. When I was looking for new place, the view and light of the room that would be my office was an important consideration. But now, many of my...

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