We've been busy over here launching websites for our clients. Not all of these sites are 100% done, but at least they are up and running for their customers to find them.

Bank Of Commerce Mortgage
One of our biggest clients. We support & maintain their entire technology infrastructure. A special thanks to John Leonard for designing and driving this site!

Develop Your Brand
If you are starting a company, then you are developing a Brand. This company can really get it done. They have an awesome marketing resource about what colors mean.

Madison | Grey Street
This is already our second project with Peter Vorris, and we're already working on the third. See their Press Release here.

A great way to add content to your own website is to use Google's new feature (just announced today): Google News for webmasters.

I'll be playing with this a little to see how I like it, but I encourage anyone with a website to keep trying to add/update content to see what works.

A recent study done by the Aberdeen Group shows that a slow loading website can lead to loss of traffic, customers, and ultimately: business. (Read the short news brief)

Aberdeen's study focuses on pages that take 5 seconds to load or longer, but the principle remains, people want fast. Millions of people are not paying for hi-speed internet just to download large files fast. In fact, many users aren't downloading files at all; they just want their web pages and email to download quickly.

Any delays longer than a second will actually interrupt a person's train of thought. If they get interrupted, then they will notice that your site is slow. (The fact that they notice may give them time to think to go elsewhere)

Last year, we as a web development company, decided to move all of our clients sites to a new, faster hosting company. The cost was more than twice as much, but the increase of speed was well worth it.

If you have a slow loading website, consider upgrading, it's worth the money. (Contact us)

Check out: www.lodgingpropertiesgroup.com

I would like to say thank you to our client for their hard work, Mackenzie for designing it, and Jesse for coding it!

Before you launch your website and start advertising, make sure that you ALWAYS make it easy to allow someone to contact you. Nobody likes a Contact page that requires 50 questions to be filled out just to reach a human.

Don't beat around the bush with a bunch of dropdowns, like:
What method of communication do you prefer? (Email, Phone, Snail Mail)
What day of the week is best for you? (Sunday-Saturday listed)
What time of day is best to reach you? (Morning, Afternoon, Evening)

Instead, ask them directly what you want.
Here's a great example of what you should ask:
When and how would you like to be contacted?

Then leave room for them to say "Call me after 5pm", "Email me", or "Mail me a membership packet".

Let them just tell you what they want, and the both of you will be happy.