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The Web Garage
Last week we mentioned that a Web site is a complex organism. This week, an illustration of just how complex… Take a moment and go out to your garage. Put your key in the ignition, and turn it. What happens? Unless you’ve got a broken down hoopty, the engine magically roars to life. Now take… Read more
The Impotent Web Site Owner (a fable)
Last week we explored the main differences between various options you have when it comes to hosting for your site. At the bottom of the heap was shared hosting: limited, but adequate for many beginner sites. With your own shared hosting account, you still have control over your site – you can access all your… Read more
Choosing the Right Web Hosting Plan
Where’s your site hosted? Is it the same place your domain name is registered through? Is it the right hosting plan for your needs? Many new MWD Web clients don’t know the answers to these questions. This week, we look at the three main types of hosting account. By the end you’ll be able to… Read more
A Solid Year of Blogging
As of this week, MWD Web has published a new blog post every single week, consistently, for the past year. 52 shiny, lovely posts. Hooray for us. But, more importantly, hooray for our site performance. We’ve gone from zero to hero with search engines, and seen our traffic steadily increase as we’ve gained traction and… Read more
Action!
Imagine going in to give a sales pitch to a big prospect. You march in, talk about your company for ten minutes, favor them with your most winning smile, and then immediately leave the building. You don’t allow them to ask questions, and you don’t ask them if they’d like to do business with you.… Read more
WIIFM?
When customers visit your site for the first time, they have just one question in mind about your product or service. It may be a selfish question, but nonetheless it is the question that needs to be answered: What’s in it for me? That’s it. In other words, how can what your business is selling… Read more
Content that Writes Itself?
J. Michael Straczynski is one of the most prolific writers today, writing 10 hours a day, six days a week (according to his promotional material). With that kind of dedication, surely writing always comes easily and naturally to him, right? Well, no. Like the rest of us, he has his days where things just don’t… Read more
Count On It
There is trust involved in any kind of transaction. When you buy something online, you trust that the vendor will fulfill your order promptly and accurately. Say you ordered a purple, XL size shirt: you trust that the shirt you receive will be both purple and size XL. You also trust that your credit card… Read more
As You SEO, So Shall You Reap
The topic of SEO is flying around everywhere these days, it seems. Everyone wants to be #1 on Google. Everyone wants to be there as soon as possible. There are two things, though, to keep in mind. 1. SEO, done correctly, takes time. Thanks to recent updates to the algorithm, Google is now on the… Read more
Thou Shalt Not Steal (a Parable)
Tis easier to ask forgiveness than permission. That is, unless you’re facing a lawsuit from a particularly vindictive stock photo company. Then it’s much, much more expensive to ask forgiveness, and they probably won’t give it to you anyway. The following is an unfortunately true story that we’ve encountered far too often here at MWD… Read more