Comments for Small Business Websites http://smallbusinesswebsitesguide.com The knowledge you need for a successful business website. Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:01:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 Comment on What Puzzles You The Most About Understanding Websites? by geno sanders http://smallbusinesswebsitesguide.com/2007/09/25/what-puzzles-you-the-most-about-understanding-websites/#comment-267 geno sanders Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:55:43 +0000 http://smallbusinesswebsitesguide.com/2007/09/25/what-puzzles-you-the-most-about-understanding-websites/#comment-267 I recently had someone try and help me build a website,and she did,but that is as far as we got,we used a site builder called homestead to build it,and that is about as far as I got,I own a towncar/taxi business and specialize in airport p/us with travelers coming into town on business etc..I have serveral account customers such as oil companys etc. and I would like to get to more people,as of now its only been word of mouth,I know nothing about computers and the internet,infact i'm sitting here typing this with one finger,I only went to the 9th grade,not highly educated.I want to know how to make the website work for me ,where do I put it,if I do,to get the attention I want?Please help me,Thanks "GENO" I recently had someone try and help me build a website,and she did,but that is as far as we got,we used a site builder called homestead to build it,and that is about as far as I got,I own a towncar/taxi business and specialize in airport p/us with travelers coming into town on business etc..I have serveral account customers such as oil companys etc. and I would like to get to more people,as of now its only been word of mouth,I know nothing about computers and the internet,infact i’m sitting here typing this with one finger,I only went to the 9th grade,not highly educated.I want to know how to make the website work for me ,where do I put it,if I do,to get the attention I want?Please help me,Thanks “GENO”

]]> Comment on If a Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, Did You Just Say Nothing at All? by Web Development Denmark http://smallbusinesswebsitesguide.com/2007/10/13/if-a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words-did-you-just-say-nothing-at-all/#comment-136 Web Development Denmark Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:46:20 +0000 http://smallbusinesswebsitesguide.com/2007/10/13/if-a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words-did-you-just-say-nothing-at-all/#comment-136 great post, thanks for sharing! great post, thanks for sharing!

]]> Comment on How Can A Favicon Help Brand My Business? by Terry http://smallbusinesswebsitesguide.com/2007/08/18/how-can-a-favicon-help-brand-my-business/#comment-133 Terry Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:57:56 +0000 http://smallbusinesswebsitesguide.com/2007/08/18/how-can-a-favicon-help-brand-my-business/#comment-133 Good point! As we can see the Favicon is very useful sometimes, and you are 1000% right that they can make your site more memorable. By the way, while i was browsing yesterday i saw a several pages with also the same explanation, proving that the favicon is very important for every web site... http://www.mostfamousfavicons.com/ http://www.faviconsets.com/ Put your own definetlly! Good point!
As we can see the Favicon is very useful sometimes, and you are 1000% right that they can make your site more memorable.

By the way, while i was browsing yesterday i saw a several pages with also the same explanation, proving that the favicon is very important for every web site…
http://www.mostfamousfavicons.com/
http://www.faviconsets.com/

Put your own definetlly!

]]> Comment on What Puzzles You The Most About Understanding Websites? by Megan http://smallbusinesswebsitesguide.com/2007/09/25/what-puzzles-you-the-most-about-understanding-websites/#comment-112 Megan Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:17:41 +0000 http://smallbusinesswebsitesguide.com/2007/09/25/what-puzzles-you-the-most-about-understanding-websites/#comment-112 Hi Do :') I have 3 questions: Are you aware of other free traffic driving tools that don't take hours of tedious mail box cleanup or clicking to implement....? Also, is SEO still relevant? If so, any suggestions? How important are statistics to track and also, where can they be tracked easily? Thanks a bunch!!!! Hugs, Megan http://www.thelawofattractionstation.com Hi Do :’)

I have 3 questions:

Are you aware of other free traffic driving tools that don’t take hours of tedious mail box cleanup or clicking to implement….?

Also, is SEO still relevant? If so, any suggestions?

How important are statistics to track and also, where can they be tracked easily?

Thanks a bunch!!!!

Hugs,
Megan
http://www.thelawofattractionstation.com

]]> Comment on How Long Should I Register My Domain Name For? by Brennan Kingsland http://smallbusinesswebsitesguide.com/2007/07/30/how-long-should-i-register-my-domain-name-for/#comment-111 Brennan Kingsland Wed, 03 Oct 2007 11:49:36 +0000 http://smallbusinesswebsitesguide.com/2007/07/30/how-long-should-i-register-my-domain-name-for/#comment-111 <p>Thank you for the valuable info. See I figured I'd go on the year to year plan and see how my sites worked out. Guess Google takes a "wait and see" attitude also.<br /> Good to know, especially about emphasizing the .com, rather than having to bump up all the others that I've "cornered".<br /> Thanks again.<br /> Brennan<br /> http://setourteachersfree.com</p> Thank you for the valuable info. See I figured I’d go on the year to year plan and see how my sites worked out. Guess Google takes a “wait and see” attitude also.
Good to know, especially about emphasizing the .com, rather than having to bump up all the others that I’ve “cornered”.
Thanks again.
Brennan
http://setourteachersfree.com

]]> Comment on How Do Search Engines Find My Website? by aashish http://smallbusinesswebsitesguide.com/2007/09/30/how-do-search-engines-find-my-website/#comment-103 aashish Mon, 01 Oct 2007 07:46:47 +0000 http://smallbusinesswebsitesguide.com/2007/09/30/how-do-search-engines-find-my-website/#comment-103 <p>Nice. This helped me a lot.</p> Nice. This helped me a lot.

]]> Comment on What Puzzles You The Most About Understanding Websites? by Do http://smallbusinesswebsitesguide.com/2007/09/25/what-puzzles-you-the-most-about-understanding-websites/#comment-101 Do Mon, 01 Oct 2007 04:00:12 +0000 http://smallbusinesswebsitesguide.com/2007/09/25/what-puzzles-you-the-most-about-understanding-websites/#comment-101 Gini, Excellent questions. I will write an article defining these words you see thrown about regularly and may not know what they mean. As soon as it's up, I'll add a link in this comment directly to it. Gini,
Excellent questions. I will write an article defining these words you see thrown about regularly and may not know what they mean. As soon as it’s up, I’ll add a link in this comment directly to it.

]]> Comment on What Puzzles You The Most About Understanding Websites? by Do http://smallbusinesswebsitesguide.com/2007/09/25/what-puzzles-you-the-most-about-understanding-websites/#comment-100 Do Mon, 01 Oct 2007 03:58:01 +0000 http://smallbusinesswebsitesguide.com/2007/09/25/what-puzzles-you-the-most-about-understanding-websites/#comment-100 Teri, I agree that the inner workings of WordPress are not particularly easy for beginners. Even as a webmaster, it took me some time to figure it all out. However, WordPress is highly recommended and versatile in the world of blogs. It offers numerous plugins, widgets and is supported in a variety of different ways. Unfortunately, I don't recommend anything in its place although there are a lot of options out there. Now for editing websites that aren't blogs, I recommend Contribute and have several of my clients using it. Basically, it's a scaled down version of Dreamweaver and can easily be used after an hour of training. Dreamweaver is the program of choice for most web designers, but it is quite difficult to learn for the novice and has far more features than you'd ever need. Many people use FrontPage, which I think is a horrific program. Yes, it's easy to learn and fairly easy to create a website with, but it generates faulty code that creates all kinds of problems you'll be unable to fix. Whenever I have to update a site that was created in FrontPage, I spend hours banging my head against the wall, asking myself "Why?!" and trying to clean up the code. Code is the HTML and other programming languages on the back-end (and invisible to the user) that make a web page look the way it does. Teri,
I agree that the inner workings of WordPress are not particularly easy for beginners. Even as a webmaster, it took me some time to figure it all out. However, WordPress is highly recommended and versatile in the world of blogs. It offers numerous plugins, widgets and is supported in a variety of different ways. Unfortunately, I don’t recommend anything in its place although there are a lot of options out there.

Now for editing websites that aren’t blogs, I recommend Contribute and have several of my clients using it. Basically, it’s a scaled down version of Dreamweaver and can easily be used after an hour of training. Dreamweaver is the program of choice for most web designers, but it is quite difficult to learn for the novice and has far more features than you’d ever need.

Many people use FrontPage, which I think is a horrific program. Yes, it’s easy to learn and fairly easy to create a website with, but it generates faulty code that creates all kinds of problems you’ll be unable to fix. Whenever I have to update a site that was created in FrontPage, I spend hours banging my head against the wall, asking myself “Why?!” and trying to clean up the code. Code is the HTML and other programming languages on the back-end (and invisible to the user) that make a web page look the way it does.

]]> Comment on What Puzzles You The Most About Understanding Websites? by Gini http://smallbusinesswebsitesguide.com/2007/09/25/what-puzzles-you-the-most-about-understanding-websites/#comment-96 Gini Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:39:05 +0000 http://smallbusinesswebsitesguide.com/2007/09/25/what-puzzles-you-the-most-about-understanding-websites/#comment-96 <p>Terminology differences - web designer, web master, optimization, page ranking, key words, etc.</p> <p>Thanks!!</p> Terminology differences - web designer, web master, optimization, page ranking, key words, etc.

Thanks!!

]]> Comment on What Puzzles You The Most About Understanding Websites? by Teri http://smallbusinesswebsitesguide.com/2007/09/25/what-puzzles-you-the-most-about-understanding-websites/#comment-95 Teri Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:47:36 +0000 http://smallbusinesswebsitesguide.com/2007/09/25/what-puzzles-you-the-most-about-understanding-websites/#comment-95 That is the best question I have been asked, about websites and more importantly how to remain topical on what people are really searching for, on our own websites. The inner workings of Wordpress are not exactly easy for a beginner, can you suggest a better program to adminster a website without having to learn code? That is the best question I have been asked, about websites and more importantly how to remain topical on what people are really searching for, on our own websites. The inner workings of Wordpress are not exactly easy for a beginner, can you suggest a better program to adminster a website without having to learn code?

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