Under the Hood of Your Website
Like a lot of things out there, there is a right way to build something and a wrong way. The troubling thing is that sometimes the website that is built incorrectly looks great! So then why should you care what's under the hood of your website? As long as it looks good, who cares? Right?
WRONG!
Having your professional company branding is only half of the battle when it comes to web development. You have to care how your website is built because from the small business owner to the corporate business - a poorly built website will WASTE money and time!
The Myth of The Simple (and Cheap) Business Website
I just want a simple website for my company. Why does it cost so much?
As a web development company, we hear a version of this statement time and time again. We share the frustration of that statement. Unfortunately the answer to this queston is "just not that simple". This article explores the myth that there are cheap short cuts to an effective web presence, and helps establish the value by which to measure the proper cost.
Common Website Mistakes - Part One
There are a number of areas in which most businesses fail to maximize their websites to the benefit of their companies' bottom line. This is the first part in a series of tips on having and building an effective website.
Common Website Mistakes - Part Two
"I don't like my website."
Have you said this? Have you heard others say that about their website?
Why does it matter?
Common Website Mistakes - Part Three
Web Content Vs. Company Structure (or Business Processes)…Why this is important! Your clients do not care how your company is organized or structured. They care about what you can do or provide for them.
Common Website Mistakes - Part Four
Websites should have a consistent structure, and "look and feel". If you use a new vendor for every web project or update, your site will look like one of those quilts made at an old fashioned quilting bee with patches sewn by each of the ladies in town.
What are the different parts of a website?
A website is made up of several parts: the host and domain name, the website files, and the hosting service. At times, it may seem like these are one entity, because one is not useful without the others. However, it is important to know the parts and how they fit together.
Parts of an E-Commerce Website
Just like a basic informational or marketing website, an e-commerce website has several parts that need to come together to make it work. In this article, we focus just on the physical parts of an e-commerce website. These parts alone will give you a functioning website, not necessarily a successful one. For that, you need to add marketing and business strategy components.
Web 2.0, a phrase coined by O'Reilly Media in 2003 and popularized by the first Web 2.0 conference in 2004, refers to a perceived second-generation of web-based communities and hosted services such as social networking sites, wikis, and folksonomies that facilitate collaboration and sharing between users. O'Reilly Media titled a series of conferences around the phrase, and it has since become widely adopted.
SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is the optimizing of your web site so that it is more visible to search engines.