Companies considering setting up a new website need to start the process by thinking about what they want their web site to say in order to achieve maximum online exposure. Some web design firms tend to design awful websites because they are obsessed with getting attention through images and not through words. When people come [...]
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Consider Web Content Before Design
Wednesday, July 15th, 20095 Essential Web Design Features
Friday, June 12th, 2009A website is the cornerstone to the marketing, branding and communications of your business. It is a vital link between you and your prospects and customers. That is why it behooves your business to create a website that fuels and not impedes the growth of your business. Too many entrepreneurs and small business owners sabotage [...]
Website Launch – Try Local First
Saturday, December 6th, 2008Try Local First TryLocalFirst.org is a coalition of local business organizations in East Multnomah County, Oregon, formed to encourage local area residents and businesses to purchase locally whenever possible. The organization got off the ground in 2008 thanks to Mark Garber from the Outlook and Bess Wills from Gresham Ford in an effort to lead [...]
Website Launch – Oral Hull
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008Oral Hull Foundation for the Blind Since 1962, the Oral Hull Foundation for the Blind has been dedicated to providing a special place for persons with blindness or low vision and their friends to get away for a day, week-end or week for an exceptional experience. They provide year-round recreational, social, and informal educational opportunities [...]
Google Web Design Guidelines
Monday, August 18th, 2008Google Webmaster Guidelines: It is important for you to adhere to Google’s guidelines which will help Google find, index, and rank your site. Even if you elect not to implement any of these suggestions, we strongly encourage you to pay close attention to the “Quality Guidelines,” which will outline some of the “illegal” practices that [...]
Are Web Safe Colors Dead?
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008The browser safe color palette consists of 256 colors that are dubbed as web safe. This is because they were developed back when computer systems utilized 8 bit video cards and the 256 colors chosen were developed by programmers with no design sense. No designer would have picked these colors, as they lack both light [...]
