Your domain name (or URL) is the address that you type into a web browser to visit a website. For example, www.amazon.com. That's a domain name. If you don't know what I'm talking about, then I don't even know how you got here. In order for you to get your own domain name, you need…
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What To Look For When You're Looking For A Web Designer You need a website. You can't do it yourself, so you need to hire somebody. But you don't know nothin' about makin' no website, so how do you go about finding the right agency or contractor in a veritable ocean of self-proclaimed "web gurus"?…
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If you ever run into a website designer who says you have to redesign your website often to rank in Google, run. Fast. Because that's a bald-faced lie. If your website consistently turns visitors into happy customers, then a redesign is probably not in your best interests. It's also a risk. In fact, there are…
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Remember the old Atari game Pitfall? At the time, it was the best way for us kids to imagine ourselves as Indiana Jones (albeit an 8-bit block version). What I remember most about Pitfall was the late nights spent playing it with the volume at zero. I was obsessed and spent a lot of nighttime…
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We recently had an experience with our bank that either taught us some new lessons in customer service or, at least, emphasized ones we already knew. It wasn't a good experience but we're probably better off in the long-run. Jason and I have had a business for a few years. It never went anywhere, but…
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Blog, blog, blog, everywhere a blog. You can’t surf to any corporate website without immediately seeing a big, ol’ link to the company blog, filled to brimming with article after article, fresh content generated every single day for years on end. Did companies have this much to say before the development of the blogosphere? Did…
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