A Web Designer Thinks Out Loud About State of Your Web Presence

31 August 2009 Categories: social media, st petersburg, web design, web design

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Forgive our presumption, but…

You probably already have a website. You’ve had it for a while. It was probably built by a friend or acquaintance of yours, a novice in web design, and it has been added to and modified over the years by several different people. May be you have modified or maintained it your self, or tried to. Maybe it hasn’t been updated for a while because it’s just too much work. Maybe you can’t even find your passwords easily.
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You’ve heard about social media and social media marketing. It sounds like a great way to reach new customers and build community inexpensively. You’ve talked to a couple of web designers, and they haven’t really convinced you that they knew what the new media was all about. And maybe their prices were out of your range given current economic conditions.

Meanwhile you are still paying some unenthusiastic “web designer”/webmaster too much to deliver nothing much in the way of service and bandwidth. Just like you were back in the 90s. Only things are different now.

Nowadays you don’t need a webmaster to update and add content to your website. Nowadays updating your website with new and exciting content is no harder than making a document on, say,Microsoft Word. In fact, you can even do it from your smartphone on the fly if you want!

As a small business site, your hosting charges should be less than $10 a month. Your domain name registration fee should be less than $10 a year. Your sophisticated yet easy to maintain website should not cost thousands of dollars to build and establish. It’s 2009, and unless you have enormous traffic-you should be so lucky-or extraordinary needs, you should be paying less and having complete control over your own site.

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Domain Name Selection Pointers

18 May 2008 Categories: social media, st petersburg, web design, web design

Okay, I’m going to pretend that we have all agreed that a good domain name is an important art of a unified and coherent web presence. Opinions vary, but let’s suspend disbelief for a bit, if necessary.

I found a blog entry which appears to be distillation of accumulated wisdom about domain name selection; it is a kind of “edu-checklist”, to coin a hyphenated word I wish never to hear again.
Here is an excerpt:

TIP #2: Avoid hyphens. They may make your domain name easier to read, but they also tend to create confusion. “The bottom line with hyphens is that most domains don’t include them. So, when you tell someone your domain, they’ll probably try typing it without any hyphens.”

Read “10 Tips for Getting that Perfect Domain Name” and bookmark it for future reference or to save a friend from making a terrible domain-name mistake. Like hyphenating, for instance

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