Category: Web Design & Marketing

  • How Much Does it Cost to Build a Website in 2022?

    Also keep in mind there are hard costs including domains and hosting that may not be included in the costs of building and maintaining a website. It costs around £5,000 GBP for a bespoke SME (Small to Medium Enterprise) website — approximately $5,870 USD, or €5,850 EUR (at the time of writing). Very few startups…

  • Google Penalties Coming for Mobile Pop Ups – SiteProNews

    Google is getting ready to enforce the strict mobile standards it has deemed the wave of the future. “Pages that show intrusive interstitials provide a poorer experience to users than other pages where content is immediately accessible. This can be problematic on mobile devices where screens are often smaller. To improve the mobile search experience,…

  • Why all bloggers should offer an email subscription – The Garage

    If you’re not gathering email data from your website visitors (legally) and following up with consistent & periodic email blasts, then you’re throwing the money you spent on your website and business down the drain. An email subscription service should be a staple of any blogger’s content plan to attract blog traffic and create a…

  • 5 Things to Know Before Starting a Web Project – Build Studio

    This is really good information from the web developer’s point of view. We always try to charge appropriately, but some things just take time and resources — like backing up an entire site, creating a test environment so an update doesn’t hose the entire site, working in antiquated software the client insists upon — and…

  • SEO Is Not A Get-Rich-Quick Scheme For Their Website

    It’s important everyone understands that SEO is not a get-rich-quick scheme for their website. Project managers who underestimate the demands of a top-to-bottom SEO game plan will find themselves overwhelmed. WHERE DOES SEO STRATEGY FIT IN THE WEB DEVELOPMENT PROCESS? EVERYWHERE. Nathan Reimnitz | GoDaddy Garage, May 2, 2016

  • 36 Reasons Why Having a “Free Website” is a Bad Idea

    This is a great article explaining exactly why you get what you pay for and nothing is ever “free.” The least of which is they can lock down your data, they can shut down your website, unprofessional web address (no credibility there), the company can disappear (with your stuff), you lose your site address, they…

  • An interesting article on web apps and ad blockers

    And here I thought I was the only one having issues when browsing with ad blockers turned on… Why “Ad Blockers” Are Also Changing the Game for SaaS and Web Developers

  • Google to ‘pause’ Flash-based adverts – BBC News

    Google’s Chrome browser will start blocking some internet adverts that use Adobe’s Flash technology, from Tuesday. Source: Google to ‘pause’ Flash-based adverts – BBC News We all know that Flash has had a very hard time in the near past, what with hackers using it to spread mahem.  And still I find that many of…

  • So, What is “Responsive” Web Design and Why Should I Care?

    These days you don’t just need a website, you need a responsive website. So what is “responsive” web design? According to Wikipedia: [fac_icon icon=”quote-left”]Responsive web design (RWD) is an approach to web design aimed at crafting sites to provide an optimal viewing experience—easy reading and navigation with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrolling—across a…

  • 4 Stats to Make You Rethink Your Web Design Plan

    By Lindsay Silberman Business on Tapp, 101 [su_quote cite=”By Lindsay Silberman” url=”https://www.tapp.com/101/4-stats-to-make-you-rethink-your-web-design-plan”]And now, for a mouthwatering thought experiment… You’re going out to dinner and deciding between two restaurants. When you visit the restaurant sites, option A takes forever to load, and when it finally does, you can’t find the menu anywhere. Option B is beautifully…