Why you can’t afford NOT to have a website
Advertising in a newspaper or having your own website? Which is the better value? If I had a dollar for every business person who said that websites are too expensive… Yet many of these same business people will take out full page ads in their local newspaper and even...
Fall clean-up for your website
The seasons are changing and Autumn is officially here. Kids are back in school, leaves are falling (most of them into my swimming pool, it seems), and every morning you can feel the crispness of approaching winter. This is also an excellent time to clean up your WordPress site
Good design is no accident
I recently had occasion to take part in an exchange on a web design forum where I am a moderator. The person asking for advice on the design of their site had been told that it was not very professional, and that they should not be using an online site builder for...
Networking Done Right.
Buying a ticket to show up and meet a bunch of strangers who may or may not have anything in common with you and/or your business goals is kind of like a blind date!
(And we all know the jokes about blind dates…)
What’s missing from your website?
There is a page element most websites lack – and which is critical for obtaining a respectable conversion rate
Why I Don’t Do Spec Work
Well, first of all, what is spec work?
Basically, spec work (speculative work) is any kind of creative work, either partial or completed, submitted to a prospective client before the project is awarded.
Invisible Design
I have formal training in design, and in web technologies. I try to combine those with my life experience and the clients’ requests to provide functional websites with good design.
But what is good design? Maybe it’s the part of design that we don’t see.
It’s a mobile world out there
You see them everywhere – people sitting, standing, walking around, tapping on tiny keyboards on their mobile devices.
Let’s face it – we live in a mobile world.
What do you get when …
What do you get when you have 400 WordPress enthusiasts - bloggers, designers, developers, old hands and newbies - all together for a weekend? WORDCAMP MONTREAL! What a blast - I've been going every year since 2011, and I am so looking forward to it again this year!...
Do-it-Yourself Dentistry?
Most people will laugh and dismiss the idea out of hand. “Ridiculous!:” they’ll say. “Dentists study for years to be capable of the work they do!”
So very true. Why, then, do people think they can build their own website?
Think before you forward!
Lately the amount of SPAM in my inbox has increased dramatically – up to 120 or so SPAMs a day.
This is not only a waste of my time and bandwidth, it makes me very concerned about who has my e-mail address and how they got it.
Social, Shmocial, why bother?
People now are accessing the Internet on their phones or tablets as frequently as on their PCs. How does that affect your small business?
Should you use social media? Why? Which ones?