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  • The Click and Mortar Store

    The Click and Mortar Store

    Having finished sending clients good news about the third quarter, I know it’s time to think about the fourth quarter — the time when retail and e-tail merchants alike can expect to make a large percentage of their sales and income.

  • The Main Point of Your Website

    The Main Point of Your Website

    Here’s the new site that Dr. Tom Hapgood’s web design class created for a local charity.

  • Lab Report: Ad Performance

    Lab Report: Ad Performance

    We’ve been playing around with ads at our lab site, FreshPlans. People ask us about monetizing sites sometimes; we write for successfully monetized sites, but the process of getting from website to monetized website is fraught with peril — or at least most people don’t seem to succeed at it. We wrote about the basic…

  • BE the Directory

    BE the Directory

    Gathering backlinks or inlinks, links to your site from other sites, is an important part of search engine optimization.

  • SEO Tip: Copywriters

    [youtube xhqSxUbLQ5Y] Some of the designers we work with have never worked with a copywriter before — they’re glad they did once they try it. Whether you’re hiring a designer or you are a designer, you should consider hiring a professional to write your web content.

  • Updating Your Own Content: Things I’d Like to Say to Clients

    A client emailed me this morning to see whether he’d be able to update the content at his website, which we will be launching soon. I assured him that, since we’re building the site on the WordPress platform, he’ll be able to change it any time.