Your 2012 resolution: a website maintenance plan

Let’s face it: everything needs maintenance, and you haven’t touched your website since you changed the copyright notice last year. Sure, you give your car gas, oil changes, insurance, new tires…and maybe a new roof rack or fancy headlights. But enough about you. My goal is to make sure you maintain your website. Here’s why.

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How much for one low-cost website?

As you may have noticed in our web design philosophy, a rocking website doesn’t have to be expensive. But, it certainly shouldn’t be cheap.  So how much is an inexpensive website?  Since I built this one on a shoe-string budget, I’ll shoot off a quick post while it’s fresh in my mind. If all the [...]

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From bit.ly to goo.gl to yo.u, do you need a branded short URL?

URL length can get out of hand when you’re trying to Tweet and add a comment in just 140 characters. To solve the URL length problem, URL shortening services (such as bit.ly and goo.gl and t.co) have popped up.
The downside of the most popular URL shorteners is that the links aren’t memorable, and aren’t generally tied to a certain website, blogger, or brand.Are you missing an additional branding opportunity by using bit.ly and not your personal shortened URL (think http://pep.si).

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