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What about a house, or a new couch for your living room? The simple fact of the matter is, each of the aforementioned items have a large variety of quality,  style, and feel.  The perfect couch for one living room could clash terribly with the next.  Content management systems are no different, yet we constantly [...]

If you’re going through that wonderful process of pricing our the cost of a new website for your business, you’ve probably found that while gathering pricing from different firms, you’re finding a wide variety of pricing: some very high; some very low; and plenty more everywhere in between.
You may have found yourself scratching your head, [...]

As a quick refresher, if you’re new to the web development scene, a content management system (or CMS) is a tool that allows non-technical users to easily update the contact (text, pictures etc.) on their website easily through a web-based interface. It’s a great concept that can be very helpful and save a lot of [...]

Lately, a few of my customers have been misled by the (now) infamous Domain Registry of Canada, and I thought it would be helpful to post a little primer on what to look out for and a list of the few of the more well-known companies who behave in this underhanded manner.
What should I [...]

If you’re getting a website for your business, you should be getting a content management system (or CMS) that isn’t really up for debate. The ability to modify and change content on your website is just too valuable a proposition to pass up! However, one of the first decisions to make is which direction you [...]

Welcome to part three of the Elements of a Great Business Website series. While this is the last post I have actually planned out, this series will never truly be completed. The web development industry changes at such a rapid pace, so I will be bringing all the latest useful developments in the form of [...]

Welcome to part 2 of Elements of a Great Business Website. Here are five more factors that help comprise a great business website:
1. Images that have been Optimized for the web
Have you every been to a website that had a nice big picture on their homepage, but it loaded painfully slow, one sliver of the [...]

In this new multi-part blog post series, we’re going to be examining elements that when assembled together make up a great website, we’ll discuss what these elements are and why you should have them on your site. So without further-a-do let’s get started!
1. Contact information on every page
Sure, you have to have a contact [...]

Last time, we looked at 5 useful online tools for businesses, and since then I’ve come across more that I thought you might find useful and one upgrade from a tool that I outlined in the last post. One of the latest fads for Internet based businesses is to give an online service away for [...]

Here are a few of my favorite online tools I’ve found on the web:
1. Doc 2 Pdf Online
If you have a Word document you want to upload to your website for your customers, this handy little tool will automatically convert it to a pdf file (a more web-friendly format than Word documents) and [...]