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WordPress is a hugely popular blogging program with a ton of capabilities to help you share your knowledge and expertise with your readers. With so much power at your fingertips, which features are the best when it comes to maximizing your blogging efforts but staying productive about your time? In this post we share 5 [...]

It’s the perfect trifecta for the socially networking entrepreneur – wining, dining and Facebook. Our San Jose web design firm is partnering up with wine consultant extraordinaire Betty Kaufman of WineShop At Home and Edward Fike, President of Hobee’s Restaurants to bring you “Wine, Dine and Facebook 2″. The event on August 24 will feature [...]

When you view the colors on your website, do you ask yourself “why did I ever choose that color?” or “What was I thinking?”. The website colors we choose are often a combination of personal preference, meaning, as well as the branding identity (e.g. logo) for our business. What many people don’t realize that there’s actually often a psychology behind certain colors.

If your website is not as vibrant or engaging as you’d like it to be, perhaps it’s time to look at the color palette with which your website was painted. Here are some hints that can help you make your site more colorful.

For the past 5 years, many small business owners have benefited from the popular review site Yelp. At the same time, Yelp has been accused of removing good (and bad) reviews at will, offering to hide negative reviews in exchange for advertising sponsorship, and not deleting disparaging or false reviews from some consumers. Given such a dichotomy, a question that often arises in the mind of business owners is should I use Yelp for my business?

Today the world’s #1 social networking website Facebook achieved a monumental milestone, reaching 500 million users worldwide. Perhaps equally as stellar was its rise from 250 million users just one year ago in July 2009 – a doubling in just one year. If you have lots of family, friends or business associates on Facebook, this [...]

Hyperlinks (or “links”) are one of the most important elements in a website, helping visitors and search engines to successfully find your website or blog online. Yet links can also be one of the trickiest items to fully understand. In this blog post, I’ll endeavor to demystify four types of them: inbound links, outbound links, [...]

The number of websites that now require us to create a user name and password has exploded in the last few years. Along with that: a massive expansion in the number of security breaches into online accounts (including Facebook and Twitter), many simply due to a weak password.

I remember in arts  class during the 80′s one of the activities we tried was 3-D design. Back then 3-D was just coming in (yes, I did use the old paper red/blue glasses at the movies), so it was fun to start learning to draw faux 3-D using perspectives. Web design trends are always evolving [...]

If you’re like many website owners, you probably have received an advertisement at one point or another for help with search engine optimization services. Some of these promise guaranteed first-place results for a certain price. When it comes to search engine optimization, it’s important to remember that strong results come from boosting your search engine [...]

Having a website that looks large and impressive can be a boon to drawing visitors, but how do you know if your website is snaring or scaring readers? When it comes to successful web design, it’s important to consider your visitors “user experience” (UX) — how your readers interact with and feel about your website. Having [...]