Sometimes I can tell that customers aren’t seeing the same thing that I am when we both look at their website. There could be a lot of reasons for this but sometimes it’s the cache. A cache is where your web browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc) stores information about the websites you’ve visited. It stores [...]

Earlier I wrote about website statistics. Today I’d like to bring some additional items to your attention. Website Referrers Website referrers are an interesting thing to look at. This is where you can discover how people are getting to your website. Here are some of the most common referrers to my Charles Dickens website: www.google.com [...]

Most web hosts provide a free statistics program. If you’re unsure if your host offers one give your host a call and ask. Website statistics are a good way to track your website’s growth and learn more about your visitors. Page Views One website statistic that I always look at is page views. A page [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

When you start a website you need three things: 1.  A website developer (That’s me.) 2.  A website host – to learn more about this click here 3.  A domain name A domain name is a unique name or address for websites. The domain name for this site is perryweb.com. Here are some other domain [...]

Before websites were around “above the fold” was a newspaper term. It meant the part of the newspaper that you could see when it was folded in half. So above the fold used to mean what was on the front page of the newspaper above the fold line. For websites what this term means is [...]

When I’m talking with customers about a new website one of the things I talk about is website hosting. A web host is a company that provides server space for the files that make up your website. The servers (also known as really big computers) are attached to the Internet. When I work on websites [...]