When I’m working with a client and they’re putting content together for a new website, almost invariably they tell me that when it comes to the home page, they have no idea what to write. The home page is often a difficult thing to wrap one’s head around when content creation is in the works….
This was a disturbing thing to find in my mailbox this morning – Google’s Matt Cutts discussing whether or not using stock photos on a website hurts rankings. His initial answer was ‘no,’ that it makes no difference whether images are original or stock. That’s great, as I know many of my business clients can’t…
Ah – that question I hear so often from clients with a new blog! I don’t blog enough – I have a lot of info to share, but often I just don’t think about it until I get some kind of reminder from the outside world – such as a post like this one… Most…
The venerable Image Widget has been around a long time. Currently on version 4.0.6, t’s been downloaded over 661,000 times as of this writing, and I’ve been using it myself for at least 3 years on client sites. It’s a simple little plugin with a narrow purpose: use the native WordPress media manager to add…
If you own a website, you’ve more than likely heard the phrase “content is king” more times than you can count in the last couple of years. It’s never been more true than it is right now. Old-school SEO tactics (even white-hat ones) that used to give sites a leg up in Google search results…
Our latest launches: two Colorado company websites – one for our long-term client Portable Rental Systems, and the other for Loveland-based Ace Chem-Dry. Portable Rental Systems recently expanded into a new industry, septic cleaning and pumping. They had content related to the new field on their existing website but the work had grown to the…
(Updated Oct. 14, 2013 – In order to import a KML, you’ll need to click on My Places, then instead of the red Create Map button, click the link underneath (“Or create with classic My Maps”). On the next screen you can import a KML; it’s Maps Engine Lite that won’t let you import KMLs…
So far in September Red Kite has launched two Colorado company websites – one for the non-profit Atmosphere Conservancy, and the other for Clear Surroundings Organizing. The Atmosphere Conservancy was using an older custom WordPress theme that had begun to break as new WordPress versions were introduced. We replaced the old theme with a new…
We love WordPress. It’s not a one-size-fits-all solution by any means, but for many small and medium businesses, it’s a fantastic content management system, or CMS. A CMS makes it easy for you to both edit existing pages and add new pages and features to your site yourself. Custom WordPress websites are a solid long-term…
Need help on a project, or just for getting things done around the office? An online freelance site may have just the worker you’re looking to hire. The larger sites include Elance, oDesk and Guru. Elance and oDesk are large – each has over 1 million registered workers ready to go. Both are world-focused, meaning…
“Don’t build your house on rented land.” That’s a phrase I’ve heard a few times since the Facebook IPO occurred. I’ve had a few prospective clients in the past tell me they didn’t need a website because they had all their business information on Facebook. Now Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Google+, LinkedIn and other social media…
A really irritating experience with an online retailer today inspired this quick post – here are a few things that happened when I tried to check out, and what you can do to avoid these problems with your own online checkout process. The organization used an outside vendor to sell tickets to an event. That’s…