What do you need to update a website? Access to the CMS admin panel, website hosting credentials, FTP or File Manager Access, create a website backup, design and code files, and all the files, plugins, certificates, or content that needs to replace the old ones. What happens if I don’t maintain my website up-to-date? Your…
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“A business’s online presence, regardless of industry, can have a massive impact on its success. In this day and age, some businesses still don’t realize that a majority of their customers will visit their website before making a purchase. Having a strong online presence, particularly a website, can be make or break for generating more…
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In my freelance work developing website designs I’ve consistently noticed that clients don’t want a lot of complexity. Simple sells. Everyone wants something custom to have their website stand out, but they also don’t want to learn how to go in and edit HTML content in a back-end. This leads to a side career of…
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Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Design thinking… development workflow… it’s a foundational process providing structure to a team’s project. This process encompasses all aspects of a web development project until launch. My journey as a web developer may be similar or very different from many others’ journeys. Over the years and through varied website…
Continue reading →The idea is that copy (and the message you’re trying to convey through that copy) should dictate design – not the other way around. Now, this is in no way meant to underestimate the importance of design. Design can breathe life into the story the copy is telling, and done properly, great copy plus great…
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For many small business owners, the new year is a time to finally take on a growing to-do list. Have you found time to update your website and social media business pages for the new year? If you have not done so already, take thirty minutes to perform the following updates listed below. Making these…
Continue reading →“Client sites are children you give to adoptive parents to raise. When it’s your own site, you have only yourself to take the credit or the blame for how things work out. You have the luxury to find and fix and agonize and obsess, but it’s also hard to know when to stop. I knew…
Continue reading →Well, I’ve done it. I’ve installed a WordPress blog for myself, really truly this time. I may only post silly personal entries. You may soon be reading about gardens, cats, bicycles, coffee, trips to historic sites, and obviously about Randal Grichuk. Or I may post equally as much about actual website work! We’ll see!
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