The top website and marketing links for this week. Eight in 10 small businesses in the US don’t have a mobile-friendly website. Yikes! Does this describe your site? Better get a move on if it does. Doing video? Here are some tips for using YouTube to market your small business. For personal bloggers, but business bloggers might…
Our hosting company NOCO Hosting has just added a WordPress-specific hosting plan, suitable for larger sites or more feature-intensive sites like ecommerce, social network or membership websites. For our Pro WordPress plan, we’ve chosen to partner with WP Engine because they offer best-in-class WordPress hosting with features that make it perfect for larger business websites:…
A big “thank you” to all our clients – today is Red Kite’s 9th birthday. Much appreciate to everyone we work with!
I love WordPress, and I’m glad it’s been so good for so many of my clients. I like supporting my WordPress clients because they tend to be the ones who are the most keen on really using their sites to benefit their customers and grow their businesses. WP Minder came out of a desire to…
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…
Fort Collins-based Atlas Roofing needed a new website. Owner Rob Godin is a friend of both mine and SEO partner Laurie Macomber of Blue Skies Marketing and we were hired for the project. We designed and developed a new custom WordPress site that will let Rob and his staff control the content as well as…
Red Kite’s hosting company, NOCO Hosting, is making some big changes this week. We’ve just increased the monthly bandwidth allotments to 4x the previous limit – good news for our photography and video clients. The new account sizes are: Micro: 250MB disk space and 10GB bandwidth Basic: 1GB disk space and 40GB bandwidth Standard: 3GB…
Animal Medical Center of Brooksville, FL approached Red Kite about replacing their older website. I met with practice manager Charles Sorensen and together we determined that WordPress would work nicely for them, since they were looking for a small site that would be easy for them to maintain on their own. They also liked the…
Last night WordPress released an update, here’s what WordPress.org had to say: WordPress 3.0.5 is now available and is a security hardening update for all previous WordPress versions. This security release is required if you have any untrusted user accounts, but it also comes with important security enhancements and hardening. WP SecurityLock says: As far…
Red Kite just launched a new website for Team Fort Collins, a local non-profit that’s been providing alcohol and drug prevention services to the Fort Collins community since 1989. Team approached us about getting a fresh new look and reorganizing the existing content on the site, and also a way for them to more easily…
Red Kite (finally) gets its new site up. Since I specialize in WordPress, I thought it would be nice to actually have a WordPress site. 🙂 Launched five minutes ago; now I’m checking for bugs, link issues, missing images, and to make sure this is showing up in Facebook and Twitter via Twitterfeed and the…