Have you ever been to a website for the first time only to be greeted by an image, maybe a garden gate, and underneath the words “click here to enter my world”? This is what we call a splash page. It’s a page used to set the mood of a site. There’s usually some sort [...]

A great way to keep in contact with your customers, encourage return visits to your website and increase sales is with a newsletter. The newsletter system I recommend is phplist. In fact it’s the one that I use for my three newsletters. (Yep, I have three newsletters.) Here’s an example: Subscribe to the Charles Dickens [...]

Are you ready to sell products online?  It’s really pretty easy.  I can help you with the four basic things you need to sell things online.  You just need: A website Shopping cart software – Shopping cart software is used to handle all the details of the transaction.  It totals up the transaction amount and [...]

Last week I tried sending my brother a real estate listing that I’d found.  “The link didn’t work,” he emailed back.  And I could see why.  The URL was so long that the line wrapped when he got it.  That made the link break.  Then I went to http://tinyurl.com/.  TinyURL.com is a handy site.  You give it [...]

I was reminding another customer about renewing their domain name yesterday.  This brought up the question of how much is a domain name worth on the open market. Domain names are assets just like a car or a piece of property.  While domain names are reserved or “rented” for a period of time people do [...]

Have you ever noticed that your website looks different on someone else’s computer?  It’s not wildly different but it’s just not the same.  The colors might be darker or lighter.  Maybe you can’t see as much of the home page without scrolling down.  The font might even look like it’s a slightly different size.  These [...]

It happened again yesterday.  A client sent me an email asking if I had any idea what had happened to her website.  I took a look and discovered that her domain name had expired.  As I explained in yesterday’s blog, domain names are unique names or address for websites.  These names are all registered to [...]