Despite a slowdown in the economy, leading research organizations including eMarketer are forecasting online shopping to grow at approximately 6% over the next year, while in-store retail sales continue to decline.
We’ve spent the past three weeks adjusting and improving our spam filtering with ALOT of success. Here are some things you should be aware of and be ready to account for. Read More…
On the eve of January 1st, 2009, LuckyDog Digital’s email, database, and web servers went through their first round of upgrades. In short, here are the recent improvements.
In the current state of the economy everybodys hurting. People are looking for cost-effective ways to market themselves and/or their business.
Redesigning your web site is a relatively cheap alternative, and with proper SEO practices can be much more cost effective than traditional advertising techniques. Advertising only lasts for a certain amount of time and then you have to pay more. SEO is a one-time charge.
Marketing a website isn’t particularly difficult. It’s usually just a matter of knowing what to do, how to do it and having the skills and time to get it done. With that said, marketing a website isn’t particularly easy, either. There are so many factors and variables in play that at any given time that the job can be quite overwhelming
I’ve always been a lover of checklists, especially when it comes to getting things done. Especially when it comes to remembering what things need to be done! I recently stumbled upon an extensive checklist that builds on lists that I already use.
When people talk about links, what they normally mean are external links. Both inbound and outbound external links are important but most people do not place much importance on internal links. Are they important anyway? I believe they are. But before we continue, let us define what internal links are clearly. Basically, internal links are those links that point to another page within your web site. Read More…
I often get requests from people asking if am able to donate my services, usually from a non-profit group or the like. I like helping others, and do my part to help where and when I can, but this does not mean that I give away my services for free every time I’m asked. Read More…
As a full service web design firm specializing in small businesses and start-ups we often get questions regarding how we keep costs so much lower than the larger design firms while still providing the same (and sometimes better) quality. There are alot of areas to cover that all contribute and I aim to have them all broken down in later blog posts. But first and foremost I’d like to address the design aspect of the process. Read More…
There’s a lot of buzz in the online PR world about social networking, whether that be traditional social networks like Myspace and Facebook or social networking through microblogging services such as Twitter.
Should you jump into social networking to promote your business? And if so, with so many options available, how do you choose which social networks to participate in? Read More…
I’ve had alot of inquiries lately on the real importance of web standards. I’ve had people cite that standards aren’t as important as aesthetics, that because IE 6 had poor support for modern standards that they were useless, and even that they flat out didn’t care about standards or being compliant because all that mattered is what the client saw. Read More…
