Website Design and Information Architecture Over the years, we've done website design for many types of clients - including restaurants, non-profits, online retailers, car dealers, health care providers, painters, landscaping companies and many more. During that time (almost 15 years now), we noticed a natural synergy with companies that do manufacturing, technology, engineering and science. […]
Getting a Website That Ranks Well Takes Work... Of Course This is what I used to say to people that asked about SEO: "If it were easy to make a website that ranked well, then everyone would do it. If everyone was doing, then it wouldn't be so easy to rank well, right?" That's still […]
They Didn't Get it Right the First Time, So They Came to Us I've met with 2 prospects in the last week. With both of them, we talked to them about a website project and they went to other website design firms in the Madison, WI area. Guess what? They're now back in our office […]
Tips for a Good PageSpeed Score Google has rolled out their PageSpeed Insights tool, which you can run to test your website. This tool provides a glimpse as to how Google views your website and how it loads/renders on desktop computers as well as mobile devices. You ideally want a 100/100 score on mobile devices, […]
Watch for Those Domain Name Verification Emails - The Matter! We agree that it's difficult to know which emails you get are real and which are fake because there are so many attempts now to "phish" for login information. There's one email that you need to look for and respond to if you get it. […]
Designer TLDs are Good for SEO It's nice to see our own industry helping itself and there's a new trend that might sound crazy at first but it makes a lot of sense. There are new top level domains coming out. A top level domain (TLD) is like .com or .net. The new ones you […]
We've been researching PageSpeed how to get high scores quite a bit this year. We've been able to achieve 100/100 scores for mobile, desktop and user experience with websites we've bee launching and for websites that are about to launch. That's great because this is one thing Google is saying needs to be done and […]
Google Wants Structured Markup I've been in the Website Design industry from the start. My first website was in 1994. Lots of things have changed since then and more will change. Right now, we're at one particular point of the Information Age and in website design and development. Years from now, we'll look back on […]
Tell Your Story! We talk to a lot of clients and we have for over 14 years now. Our clients are great because they understand that they need to invest in their website. The prospects that don't turn into clients are usually business owners who don't get this concept. We're not the cheap website design […]
Google Shakes Up Local Results... Again There has been a change with Google's local results that you should be aware of if you have a local business. What used to be called the "7-pack" is now a "3-pack." This can be good or bad for you - but first, here's a good explanation: Google Updates […]
