We know better now. My wife and I have just bought our first house. It has been updated, it looks great, and we’re slowly making it our own. When we bought it, we planned on installing our own laminate flooring. We bought a circular saw, read a few how-to articles, and felt generally pretty confident. […]
Author: Zack Katz
Zack Katz is the founder of GravityKit and TrustedLogin. He lives in Leverett, Massachusetts with his wife Juniper.
Adding value to your landing page Landing page design is focused on having a user perform an action. Every piece of content should revolve around why and how a user should perform that action. Landing pages don’t need to be dull or static, however. I’m going to talk about a simple way I spruced up […]
This two-page PDF file is an example of how to define your website audience. When you create a website, it’s important to have in mind for whom you’re designing. When designing landing pages, it is especially important to focus on an audience and craft every piece of content to fit that profile. Feel free to […]
Katz Web Design has just completed a landing page for Dish Network (a Fortune 300 company) to help them streamline their hiring process. (By the way, if you’re looking for a sales job near Denver, Colorado [in Littleton], check out Dish. They’ve got great packages for sales representatives.) The purpose of a landing page (or […]
I’ve tried repairing the permissions. Limiting desktop icons. Removing Safari’s support for ICO icons. Clearing more hard drive space. Nothing. Frickin’. Worked. I have been so frustrated by how slow my Mac Pro has been. I have 2 2.66GHz dual-core processors, 2 GB of memory, and still I was getting spinning beach balls, crunching hard drives […]
As a web designer / developer, my job is pretty straight forward: I design a website, code it, and add the content. But that’s not all. I’ve also got to be a pest, hounding clients for content. At the beginning of each project, it’s always a good idea to get a firm grasp on exactly […]
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Katz Web Design is moving!
Katz Web Design moved to Lakewood, Colorado in May, 2005 and set up shop at 71451/2 W. Vassar Ave. Katz Web Design has grown over 600% in three years at this location, but will soon move to a new location; Zack Katz and his wife have purchased a new home.
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Is your product a platform?
When looking at a product or service, ask this: will it grow, change, and update with the times, or will it become something that needs to be replaced as it becomes obsolete? In these electronic times, the future is exandability – not just for iPods and other gadgets, but for every electronic product. My wife got […]
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I support Hillary Clinton
I just wanted to let it be known that I support Hillary. I like Obama, but I believe Hillary is a strong leader with good solutions now, whereas Obama would have to learn on the job. Visit her website and learn more about her position on issues.
I stumbled upon the website BlogFlux today and found myself reading a blog titled Jehzlau Concepts. I found one of the articles very interesting about how to increase rank on your blog even if you don’t post often. You should check out the article. The article says that a great way to get traffic is […]
I wrote a newsletter article previously called "How to Schedule an Event Online," but recently I’ve had a few clients ask me how to get their events noticed. I’ve republished the article below: Here’s the situation: consider that you have a business event coming up, and you want to organize everything online. You have a […]
As many small-business owners do, I work from home. It’s great: I get to be with my rascal of a cat, I check the mail mid-day, and I have the comforts of home. It’s not, however, a good place to meet my clients.Instead of wildly cleaning the house in preparation for meetings, I meet at […]
The Democrats are doing something no one has ever done before. It’s revolutionary. It’s amazing. It’s a cost-saving measure. For the first time in the convention’s history, there will be no printed vendor list. Instead, it’s all being featured online. Are you a business in Denver that wants additional exposure? If so, you too can […]
When you first move to a new city, you aren’t familiar with the roads. You buy a map to help guide you, you ask Google how to get you from here to there most efficiently, and you stop and ask people directions. After you’ve lived in the city for a while, you become familiar and […]
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Cars and Code – Not all that different
Customizing under the hood I was talking with one of my clients who is a mechanic, and he was telling me about how he used to do a lot of car customization and performance enhancing, and that he really loved it.He told me that the problem with customizing cars is that when you start tinkering […]
Search Engine Optimization is not voodoo; it directly translates into how well your website performs. The Ignite Matchmaking website was not performing well last September for their main keywords. Katz Web Design redesigned their site, optimized the site for their keywords, and now, look at their ranking: Denver professional matchmaker: 1 Denver match makers: 2 (up […]
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Real Results from a Website Redesign
As I previously mentioned, I recently redesigned the Ignite Matchmaking website. I spoke with the site’s owner yesterday, and she told me she was overwhelmed with new business because of her website. Since Katz Web Design redesigned my site, I’m completely overwhelmed with leads. I have 11 from last Thursday and Friday, and then I […]
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10 Things a Day: My New Schedule
My wife and I had coffee last Thursday to discuss our new plans: we are going to have a daily schedule that we follow that will help us avoid distractions and keep us focused. Here’s my daily schedule that we pieced together: Make list of daily tasks and define the Main Project for the day Check and […]
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Amazon Marketplace to the rescue
I have lots of DVDs that have only watched once. I have many books that I will never read again. I wanted to sell them for money. Should be easy, right? Well it turns out, it is! Amazon Marketplace is a simple solution.
Here’s the problem: I want to use CSS Sprites for transparent images, and they require different matte colors. The promise of CSS Sprites is great: you can combine many small images into one bigger image, and use CSS to reveal only the revelant parts. But what if you have a background image, and the background […]