Why treating your website as an afterthought can stall your business before it starts The latest statistics suggest that it will take visitors to your site all of 4 seconds to decide if they want to stay or move on. And that’s down from the last study which put the number at 8 seconds. On [...]
For those with limited resources, short time frames and no desire to get their hands dirty, web design services offering a quick, easy and cheap template driven solution may be the right answer. But beware! Make sure you know exactly what you’re signing up for so down the road what looked convenient and easy doesn’t [...]
I was leaving my job at a cable advertising firm on Newbury Street in Boston one Friday afternoon and saw a UPS truck with the characters www.ups.com printed directly under the phone number on the truck’s rear panel. Pretty unremarkable except for one thing. It was 1994. Now I’m not normally known as a prophet [...]
I just wrapped up a great weekend of WordPress related stuff at the Boston WordCamp 2011 held at Boston University’s Sherman Hall. Man there are a lot of really smart people out there and I’m grateful for their willingness to share their knowledge. For me the sense of community has always been the differentiator between [...]
Last May I explained why I don’t like to get paid in full and in advance noting that this usually meant the client was more interested in the tax write off than in building a quality website. I added that it was next to impossible for me to do good work when a client is [...]
