Marketing Strategy: Personalize with a Photo
Adding your photo to your website is a great way to reassure your customers who they’re working with. It doesn’t matter what industry you’re in,… Read More »Marketing Strategy: Personalize with a Photo
Web Design
What’s Your Web Designer Using?
Yep, that’s a bowl of dog food. Here at Wilson Media Consulting, we eat our own dog food. Eating Our Own Dog Food Eating our… Read More »What’s Your Web Designer Using?
Website Tip: Update your “What’s New” section
Back in December, we provided a few tips for keeping your website updated. A few months later, the topic is still important. Your website should… Read More »Website Tip: Update your “What’s New” section
Random Photo #1: Does your salt shaker have character?
I love free stuff. Who doesn’t, right? One of my favorite free stock photo websites is stock.xchng. I love hitting their “randomizer” button to see… Read More »Random Photo #1: Does your salt shaker have character?
Website Tip: only center text for headlines
Some people may be tempted to make an entire page of text centered, but DON’T DO IT! For usability purposes, text should always be aligned left. Centered text is difficult to read for users. So, although you may think it look’s cool, I’m sorry to tell you – it doesn’t.
Centered text makes your website difficult to read, which means website visitors probably won’t read your content.
Website Tip: make sure your domain works with and without www
We're all used to seeing domains with the "www" in front of them. For example: www.WilsonMediaConsulting.com However, you need to make sure that if someone… Read More »Website Tip: make sure your domain works with and without www
Remember to remove outdated content from website
One of the keys to maintaining a modern and up-to-date website is remembering to remove outdated content. Now, I’m not talking about old blogs. Those are post-dated and intended to be archived.
I’m talking about content on your website that is time-sensitive, like event calendars, announcements, coupons, specials.
For example, I was browsing some of our local competition this evening and came across the first of many in my “Really?” series (a spoof/inspiration from one of my favorite SNL features):
