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Many people ask me, in the course of developing websites, if they need to hire a photographer. The answer I give most often will leave some photographers flatfooted. But before we get to that answer let me convey a couple of known facts about images.

First of all, our brains process images much faster and with more cognitive detail than text. (How much faster is up for discussion. Some believe it to be 60,000 times faster.) Second, humans store images in their long term memory in something called “chunks”. So if you want someone to remember some “factoid” of information, [Read more]

Will it be Mobilegeddon for your websites?

Google is changing the Rules Again

Is your website Mobile Ready, and who cares? Google has announced for some time now, that it is changing the rules for who gets top billing on Google searches. Why you should care about this!

But before we go any further, read this paragraph carefully. Google has a couple of different searches, which give different search results on various devices. One result for mobile devices and a different result for

all the rest of the searches (I’m making this simplistic). How do they differ? Here is a real life explanation for what Google is up to:

You are standing on the sidewalk, in front of a Chinese restaurant and you want to know what people think of the food. Click to Read More

So what is it with the color yellow? It’s history and purpose is all over the place. Some folks associate it with wealth and sunshine. Other folks liken it to treason and betrayal. Yeah, yellow is special. When you open a site with yellow coloring, it´s the type of special like when you get a brand new computer game like overwatchboostpros.com or that special when you see your best friend.

Yellow really has a symbiotic relationship with humans. Yellow is the happy color. It is the color of enlightenment, Click to Read More

So you have a website and you are trying to drive traffic to it, hopefully, in a variety of different ways. Most common is to insure that Google, Bing, or Yahoo index your pages. But how, exactly does this happen?

That’s the smoke. Yes, I am a website designer,and yes I should know all the answers for SEO, but none of us really know the whole picture, (except the engineers at the search engine companies and they are not talking, too much). Designers and Click to Read More

In business we sometimes shy away from topics that we perceive as not being directly related to “business”. But with this being Black History Month, I wanted to take the time to reflect on someone that I think is one of the greatest influencers, with respect to Click to Read More

In the business world, even in this era of casual chic, when you present yourself in front of others, you always insure that you look your best. If you were going to a job interview, and your website was your attire, would you be proud to wear your website?

Not face to face with an interviewer? Your website still performs one of the first steps in the decision making process of making the cut, so that you become one of the finalist. You should shine here. You own the discussion about Click to Read more …

Sometimes you hear people talk about black and white, as if they were colors. But are they really? The tiger in the photograph was originally full color, but photoshopped for this article. Many times graphic artists like to “pump up” the color for dramatic effects, even though the final outcome becomes quite an eyeful, to say the least. But what about black and white?

Technically speaking pure white is the absence of color. Put another way, you cannot make white by getting several Click to Read more …