Plug-ins R us!
As I continue to improve and practice my blogging skills, I am so grateful for the people who create and perfect the plug-ins I use. WP rocks!
Don’t Call a Geek!
So your business needs a new website, and you’re looking through your business cards (or you’re searching the web, or you’re calling your local chamber of commerce, or you’re asking your friends) for the name of a good IT guy to build your site. STOP RIGHT THERE! Don’t make that call. Before you call a geek, let’s think about this. …
10 things to tell your web designer
I met this week with a potential client, who was opening a new hair salon and needed a website. She was so well prepared for the meeting, that I am inspired to write about it. She had really done her homework, so by the time I showed up, she had the answers to many of the questions I needed to ask. So let’s talk about what that first meeting with your web designer is going to be like, and what you can do to prepare for it. After all, the better you prepare, the better your designer will know what you want, and the better he’ll be able to estimate what the project will cost. The time you spend preparing for that initial meeting will save you loads of time – and money – throughout the life of the project.
Website horror stories
I say it all the time: If you have a website, you almost certainly have a horror story to tell. I can’t tell you how many times – how many hundreds of times – I’ve met someone at a networking function, or been called on the phone, and been drawn into a conversation about a website project gone terribly bad. In fact, I almost can’t recall a 24 hour period when it didn’t happen at least once. Today, it happened twice.
WooHoo and HOO-AH!
Welcome to my blog! I have chosen as my tag line “promises to keep”, a reference to a favorite Robert Frost poem. I believe that
