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Convert More Prospects

Is your website helping or hurting your business? FIND OUT IN 3 EASY STEPS Do you have a website and suspect that it isn't...

Add Users to Your Google Analytics Account

Quick Setup Guide Use this quick start guide to add (and update) a new user to your Google Analytics account....

How to Choose Image Sizes & Types for Your Website

Image Optimization – Choosing Web Image* Formats *Generally, all web images should be 72ppi and include the RGB color profile....

Website Content Questionnaire

Content creation is one of the hardest things to complete for your business. Oftentimes, this part of the marketing process...

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Our hope is that we share something here that might help you or your business while we're figuring it all out together.

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Why you should hire me instead of 99 Designs

A friend of mine recently used 99 Designs to get a web site design and was extremely disappointed. While that site may work well for logos, it does not work well for web sites.

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Latest Projects

Yikes, I haven’t updated the Portfolio since November! And here’s why…

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Smack Happy Facelift

In much the same way that an interior decorator might redecorate her house often, I have decided to redesign this web site. I’m not too fickle though because the original design lasted a whole two years.

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CSS Basics and Troubleshooting

Recently one of my clients asked me to talk to their developers about good practices and common problems for CSS. Here are some quick notes that I presented on the topic.

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Drupal to WordPress Migration

In the spring I was approached by a client to tackle a Drupal 5 to WordPress 3 migration. I had never done this before, but I was willing to take on the challenge — and boy was it a challenge!

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Spreading the Word, Part 2: Reaching Out

In part one of “Spreading the Word” I talked about how to optimize your site for search. Now I’m going to give you some suggestions on how to reach out to the people you know (and the ones you don’t) to let them know about your fantastic new web site.

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Spreading the Word, Part 1: SEO

A friend of mine recently asked for some advice about how to make your site known, particularly if you’ve just launched. How to get your site into Google search results and in general what to do for search engine optimization.

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In This Economy, Small Businesses Can’t Afford To Skimp On Design

Just sent out a press release through PRLog: Stand out from your competitors with a great website…

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