by Kassandra Strout | Feb 13, 2014 | Websites
If you have a sidebar on your website and have no idea what you should be putting there, this video is for you! Use that valuable real estate to your advantage. (Note: I had some technical difficulties this week- sorry the quality is not as great as usual. Hey,...
by Nicole Ouellette | Feb 4, 2014 | Websites
47% of people will not wait more than two seconds for a website to load. And if you still don’t care about this yet, please look at this infographic: http://blog.kissmetrics.com/loading-time/ I bet you’re wondering now, how long does it take my website to...
by Kassandra Strout | Feb 1, 2014 | Websites
So, you may never really get to “meet” the person (or people) who host your website, and that’s totally fine. But it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do a bit of research. Before you pay that hosting bill or renew your domain, make sure you...
by Nicole Ouellette | Jan 3, 2014 | Websites
We had a client we did regular services with us for six months. When it was time to renegotiate the contract, she decided to not renew. A few months later, she emailed us. “Well you must have been doing something because my search engine rankings tanked.”...
by Nicole Ouellette | Nov 29, 2013 | Websites
I am all for paying for a great product. But I am a big believer of using open source (free) content management systems (CMSes) to build websites. I think this for a few good reasons. I thought of this analogy story to illustrate my point. Once upon a time, there was...
by Nicole Ouellette | Nov 25, 2013 | Websites
One of the first unsolicited pieces of advice I ever got was from Meg Wolff, a big deal author and food expert who lives in Maine. I had sent her something in my early internet days (I wanted to be like her, still do.) and she wrote back something to the effect of:...