Small Business Websites

If you’re new here, sign up (to the right) to be notified of any new posts and learn more about websites and marketing! Thanks for visiting!So you’ve got a great product. Let’s say it’s meditation tapes designed to decrease stress in people’s lives. The product includes a book and four audio CDs. […]

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Take a look at your home page. It’s the first page people see when visiting your site. Does it have impact, clarity and interest grabbing images or text? Or is it bland, ordinary, unhelpful and difficult to use?
FACT: 85% of people ABANDON a new site due to poor design.
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Yes, and no. Fonts, type styles or text styles, usually look about the same on every website. I’ve heard it described as ‘boring’. But ‘boring’ has a purpose. When viewing a website, your computer can only show you what fonts it has installed on its hard drive. So, if the web […]

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In this day and age of technology, if someone is visiting your website, it’s so much easier for them to fire off an email to you than to pick up the phone and call. As a result, many sites have their email address listed and when the link is clicked, it opens a mail […]

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A favicon is short for ‘favorites icon.’ It is a small image displayed to the left of the web address when someone visits your site. For example, in the images below, you can see that Fluid Elements Web Design has a favicon of a leaf and Google has it’s famous G.
Favicons are […]

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A page’s title is located in the blue (usually) bar at the top of your screen. For example, the title bar on this page says “Small Business Websites >> Blog Archive >> What Can a Page Title Do For My Business?” Page titles are the single most important thing in optimizing your site […]

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There are literally hundreds of companies through which you can register a domain name. Some are more well-known than others. If you’re going to host your website with a certain company and they also offer domain registration, this can simplify things for you by keeping them all in one place.
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