Design850 Website Design Studio

Review Your Web Site

Michael Bunton — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 03:44:38 +0000

For all of you that have business web sites here in Tallahassee, here are a few techniques that you can do on your web site to ensure that it is functioning normally. I would recommend that you (or your webmaster) complete this kind of review at minimum once every 90 days – maybe less depending on the site.

Links – check your links to ensure that they are still live. This would refer to both links that point to other pages within your web site and then also links that point to pages that are not on your web site. Hopefully your internal links will not be an issue, but linking to external sites could be problematic because other web sites might change their site structure periodically and your links might need to be updated.

Mobile Phones – since just about everyone has a mobile phone, you should be checking your site on a regular basis on multiple mobile phones to ensure that your site is visible and functions properly in the mobile environment.

Analytics – this should be done at least every 30 days. You should always be looking at analytics so you know where your site visitors are coming from and how they are finding you. I know that approximately 40% of traffic to design850.com and I can see how that is changing every month (or week in my case). I also can know what other sites are driving the most traffic to my site.

Newsletters/Forms – you should be testing your forms on a regular basis to ensure that the emails are getting through to you and to also know what the end user receives if they sign up for your newsletter or send a request through your contact form.

Images – the last item that you should check on a regular basis is that the images that you have on your site all load correctly. This is especially true if you have any sort of online store where the images are a necessary part of your ability to conduct business.

Social Networking for Tallahassee Business

Michael Bunton — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 01:03:09 +0000

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Training Post

Michael Bunton — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 01:02:24 +0000

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Basic SEO for Tallahassee Businesses Part 1

Michael Bunton — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:03:19 +0000

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Using GetListed.org for SEO

Michael Bunton — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:54:05 +0000

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Trusteria.com – Local Business Networking

Michael Bunton — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:29:21 +0000

Businesses: Trusteria.com is a package of digital networking tools to help your business survive good and bad times. With your subscription, your business will be able to take advantage of many features to market your business. Trusteria.com is low in cost but high in benefits. Benefits to the business include:

•	Consumers and Shoppers can search for your business and read what other consumers have said about your products and services. You will have the ability to request testimonials from your past clients to market to prospective customers. This feature also allows your business to “reconnect” with past clients which may lead to further sales.
•	The ability to create a full profile including your logo, company information and a direct link to your website.
•	The ability to search resumes or post jobs to find the right employee.
•	A forum to post announcement about your business and the ability to offer online coupons to current and past clients. Businesses can also post articles about their business and/or industry to show prospective customers that they are experts in their field.
•	Another feature available to businesses that subscribe to Trusteria.com is free online coupons at TrusteriaCoupons.com. Businesses will be able to post online coupons for consumers to print and bring into their business to redeem.
•	You will be assigned a Web link like http://www.trusteria.com/salestouches. Just give this link to your customers and they will be directed to your profile to leave a comment.
•	You will also be assigned html code to place on your website so anyone who visits your website can leave a testimonial for you business. An example of this feature can be seen at Seminole Electrical’s website http://www.seminoleelectrical.com.

SeaBayTrader.com Gets New Website

Michael Bunton — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:14:42 +0000

Xippr URL Shortening

Michael Bunton — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:41:50 +0000

Xippr free URL shortening service

In today’s world, websites create extremely long URL’s that you might want to send to a colleague or friend.

Of course, as may have happened to you, Outlook (and many other email programs) will cut off part of the

URL that will cause the URL to break when it is clicked on inside the email.

To solve this problem, I recommend using a site like Xippr.com that will provide a great service for you:

Xippr.com will take this:

http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A9htfToQDdpDumkAjWxXNy

oA;_ylu=X3oDMTE2NGhncHQwBGNvbG8DZQRsA1dTMQR

wb3MDMQRzZWMDc3IEdnRpZANGNjkyXzg2/SIG=117jf2

and change it to this:

http://xippr.com/f561d5

You can then easily add this short URL to your blog posts, Facebook status, Twitter update – anywhere to make the URL much easier to click, copy and paste.

For Xippr.com, I was able to complete some PHP programming work inside the administration area of the site to show the site admins how many URL’s have been shortened in the last week (broken down by day), a listing of the last URL’s that were shortened and much, much more.

Creating a Custom Twitter Background

Michael Bunton — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:43:18 +0000

So you have made the choice for yourself or your business to start using Twitter which is a great tool that can be used to communicate instantaneously to your customers.

A great part of using Twitter is that you can brand your business on Twitter using a custom background and help brand yourself online in a smarter way.

To complete this process of creating a custom background for Twitter, you will need to have access to some sort of graphics program

Welcome to My Studio: Design850

Michael Bunton — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 04:15:14 +0000

Thank you for taking the time to learn more about my website design studio and the services that I can provide for you.

I can provide your business with a new or updated look for your online presence, help your website rank better in the search engines, supply you with tools to help market your business online better, tracking visitors to your site and how that should influence your site.

Take a moment through our portfolio to see what we have done for our clients and keep checking back often, we get new clients every week!