SEO Checklist

SEO Checklist, as the name implies, is a checklist of things you should do to optimize your website for search engines. It even keeps track of the to do items for you. Definitely a good place to start.

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Screen shots, also known as screen grabs or screen captures, are extremely useful for letting other people see exactly what you see on your monitor. It’s a powerful tool to diagnose browser or computer specific errors. Combined with annotations, screen shots are a great tool for tutorials and documentation. In this guide, we’ll show you our recommended screen shot techniques for both the Windows and Mac operating systems, and well as browser tools. The tools we talk about are entirely free.

We like to inform our clients of the best tools available for their business. Google Apps certainly falls into that category. You get all the benefits of Google's most popular products, including Gmail, Calendar, Docs, and even Voice, branded for your business. You can get the benefits of a similarly configured Microsoft Exchange setup at a fraction of the cost. If you have less than 10 users, it's even free.

When applying for a web design job, there are three critical elements that will determine whether you get the job:

Did you know you can integrate your Drupal powered website with Twitter? With a few modules, you can have your website posts automatically posted to your Twitter account, or you can import your tweets into your website. Check out the Twitter module for Drupal to get started. If you need help getting it set up, you can contact us for professional Drupal help.

If you're not quite ready to launch your website but you need something up for vistors to see, you're better off putting up a simple page with basic contact info than an incomplete site. "Under construction" and "Coming soon!" pages remind me of the frontier days of the web in the mid to late 1990's, where cheesy "under construction" graphics could mean anything from a week to several years before it's complete. It's not a whole lot, but it looks better than something that's not polished or complete.

We work with a lot of small to medium sized businesses. Among those are lawyers, accountants, payroll service companies, home improvement, and many other professional service providers. As part of our routine, we always ask "What do you want out of your website?".

The answer usually goes something like this:

"I want a website that's easy to navigate, looks good, and makes it easy for my clients to contact me."

How to Maximize Conversions on Your Website

Conversions are some action that you define. Typically they're when someone fills out a form, completes a transaction, or goes to a specific page. It can be anything, but these are the most common conversion goals.

Restaurant websites share many of the same principles of any website. They need to be user friendly, easy to navigate, have good information hierarchy, and exhibit consistent branding elements from the restaurant itself. While there's endless restaurant concepts, they all have the same goals:

• Get people to your restaurant
• Get people to your restaurant
• Get people to your restaurant

How this is accomplished will vary a bit from restaurant to restaurant, but overall good restaurant website follow the same general formula:

A Content Management System (CMS) allows you to create, manage, store and edit content without any HTML programming knowledge. You are able to edit your content from any computer with an Internet connection, and because of this you no longer have to rely on third-party developers or companies to help keep your website up-to-date. This will help reduce costs and increase productivity. The need to update websites faster to keep content fresh has been ever growing.