As a rule of thumb, to build a website, you need to allocate about a week of time for each $500 that you spend on the website. So, if you are spending $2,000, it will take approximately four weeks to build a website. This is a general guideline and the website building process can move faster, but often it will …
Website Basics: Domain Names, Hosting & Email
To have a working website you need three things: the website itself (d’uh), hosting, and domain name(s). The website consists of various files that define the structure, look, and feel of the website. This is what you hire a web developer to design and put together for you. These files need a specialized computer, or server, to live on. Hosting …
Website Functionality & Design
Website functionality is very important to think about early on in the web design process. People often start conversation with “I’m looking for a new site. How much do you charge?” The answer is always the same, “Depends on what you are looking for.” The good news is that we can build a website to do almost anything. The bad …
Creating Website Content
Creating website content involves more than just coming up with text. Website content also includes all images, file downloads, and video content that may be used on the website. You could have a website with only text based content, but it’s not going to be very visually engaging and stimulating as it would be with images. Video is growing in popularity at a …
Website and Branding – How Brand Standards Guide Helps
It’s a lot easier to design a website when you have a Brand Standards Guide. A Brand Standards Guide, sometimes also referred to as a Brand Manual or simply as Brand Guide, is a document that defines the brand, describes various components of the brand, and gives direction on how those components should be used. In a Brand Standards Guide you …
Mobile Friendly Website – Do I Have One?
You are not sure if you have a mobile friendly website and so you want to find out? Good of you to ask. To tell whether you have a mobile friendly website you can do one of three things: Visit your website on your mobile phone. Does it look good? Visit your website using your browser and resize the browser window …
Mobile Friendly Web Design – no longer optional
A short while back having mobile friendly web design was a nice feature to have. Businesses heard that more and more people were browsing websites using mobile phones and tablets, and only proactive ones with deeper pockets offered mobile friendly web design options to their customers. Vast majority of websites continued having a website that only worked well on a large …
Do I Need A Content Management System (CMS)?
A CMS (Content Management System) allows you make changes to the content of your website. If you are not sure what it is and are curious to find out, read our post explaining what a Content Management System is. So the big question is, do you need a CMS? You do if, and only if, the benefits provided by the …
What is a Content Management System (CMS)?
A Content Management System (CMS) is piece of software. It allows you to make edits to your website by making it easier to manipulate the content. Content Management System software is an intermediate layer that sits between the the nuts and bolts of your website and you. A good Content Management System will be intuitive enough so that someone without …
Split Testing Your Website All The Way To The Bank
Split testing different areas of your website (also known as A/B Testing) is a great way to test and validate assumptions about design, positioning, and calls to action. If we approach every piece of content with a question about how effective it is and whether something better could be used in its place, we can develop a strategy around split testing. …