Website Tips

What powers your website? While it can a bit techy our restaurant analogy might just make it a bit more palatable! We'll dish out the details on what powers your website and what maintenance is needed to keep that website (ahem restaurant) running at its best.

SEO at its base is about customizing your website to be valuable to your target audience. Google and other search engines want to serve relevant, applicable and timely information to the user and that’s where your website should shine.

At this time of year we often take a moment to review the past year, set goals & put strategies in place for the year ahead. It’s a great time to do the same for your website. Here is a checklist of items to help you get started.

We have been using Concrete5's open source CMS for 2 years now and with its active development, growing community and increasing flexibility with various modules it has become an excellent choice and a CMS that should be given thoughtful consideration.

If you follow us on twitter you probably have seen our week of e-commerce tips leading up to Fresh! Fraser Valley. In case you missed them we're posting them here. Want to know more about e-commerce? Join us at Fresh! Fraser Valley tomorrow Sept. 25th from 9-5pm at the Ramada Inn in Abbotsford.

There are numerous web design and development companies out there. We have heard stories of people who have had fabulous experiences with their web development team and those who's experience has been less than optimal. Here are a few tips and questions to ask if you are looking for a web design company.

Facebook tends to sit in the middle of twittering and blogging. Typically posts are a bit longer than a tweet but not quite as long as a typical blog post. For most organizations setting up a page (rather than a group) is more beneficial.

Many find blogging more daunting as it is often thought that each article needs to be a long, in-depth read but you can also keep blog posts short and sweet.

At the tradeshow we had some social media tips and just in case you missed them here they are! Limited to 140 characters you often have to be creative to get your information across.

On every website we create we add Google Analytics as it provides great insight on how visitors are getting to your website and what they are doing when they get there. It shows you what is working on your website and where there may be room for improvement.