Valitics. Web Strategies, Net Results

Earlier in the week, we ventured over to Red Sky for a fantastic chili cookoff. After thoroughly testing the 5 varieties of chili, all I can conclude is that 1) chili is delicious, and 2) I can't have a photo taken of me and not look completely ridiculous.

At any rate, it  was a lot of fun to see Carew Co. peeps and Red Sky peeps "in the wild."  

The other day I had a conversation with a friend who had purchased a website elsewhere and was having some frustrations over what he assumed he would get and the product that was actually delivered.  With this conversation in mind, I think there are 7 questions (at least) you need to figure out before deciding on someone to build your online business.   

Search engine optimization is always a hot topic with our clients. Everyone wants their websites to rank #1 on Google for their industry, and rightly so. But competition is fierce and getting fiercer. Getting more traffic to and results through your website via search engines is not an overnight process, but it's not necessarily rocket science either. 

The main reason we aren't supporting IE6 on our new website design is because it's a crappy browser. It doesn't support web standards.  It's 8+ years old (in internet years, that is like 120 years old - we've done the math). It's full of pop-ups, adware, malware, and other insidious things that will hurt your browsing experience and possibly the stability of your computer. It doesn't play by the rules, it sucks and we're not going to support it anymore on our site. 

I just talked to a client who is trying to decide between using stock content for a dental website or writing his own.  Of course, as a dentist, he only gets paid for performing dentistry on people, so he doesn't want to waste time.  My recommendation was to use our content for a framework, but to write everything himself.  Use a professional if you want it to sound perfect, but the ideas should come from you.