All About Business Websites
Blog Whiz is the brainchild of Chris Kane, founder of Jordan Creek Web Design located in Des Moines, Iowa. We design, build and install business and professional blogs for individuals and companies across the United States.
Good web design doesn’t start with an IT guy. When it comes to websites there’s a lot of very smart city folks who indulge in the illusion that any website should originate from and be completely dependent upon ‘computer guys.’ You know, the ‘IT department.’ The thought process goes like this, “After all, if it’s on a computer screen, responsibility must belong to the same people who fix my laptop, connect me to the network, and console me about all that email spam. Right?” Read the article.
In Washington, DC today, a debate is raging between those who, for the last 4 years, haven’t been smart enough to pursue a war-winning strategy and those who, over the next 6 months, are not-too-cleverly trying to impose a war-losing strategy. Bad generalship. Typical partisanship. And, very depressing. — Thankfully, this article is not about the war in Iraq. But, it IS about your firm and its market development strategy. Here you determine who wins and who loses. Read the article.
There's a problem: Websites cost money. Isn't that odd? The very idea sounds crazy to some people: Websites cost money. "It's not that I object to paying for a professional website, but my even my16-year old nephew can build a website, after all." It's true, though. Guys actually do exist in this world who charge money to design and develop websites. Read the article.
Maintain your own web pages. Only yesterday, do-it-yourself editing went by a pretty fancy name, "content management" or "CMS." CMS involved lots of expensive programming, databases and, of course, huge budgets. Self-editing of web sites was out of reach for most small to medium-sized businesses. Not anymore. Now, there's Contribute CS. It's sophisticated. It's easy to use. And, best of all, it's cheap. Read the article.
Success for a new website cannot simply be wished, imagined or paid into existence. Many very intelligent people are looking, not merely for a business website, but for a full-blown business solution. Their expectations of a successful launch go far beyond a professional, custom-design and smoothly working navigation. Together with the “oohs” and “ahhs,” they have visions of immediate customers and prospects. That means measurable traffic arriving at their new website in a short amount of time. Like right now. Read the article.
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