Basic explanation of domain names, how domains work, and what web hosts do Many people ask me questions about a website and don’t know what a domain is. There’s a very simple analogy that I use that seems to work pretty well. I explain domains and hosts like this: A domain is like a radio […]
I’ve been looking for a shopping cart like this for a long time One of my clients is looking to move from osCommerce to a more user-friendly solution, and I really want to use a shopping cart that is XHTML and standards-compliant…Something that validates and looks pretty with stylesheets off, has a full feature set, […]
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What my business is really about.
In creating the outline for a presentation tomorrow, I realized that my business (and any business) is about caring. I care about my clients, I care about their business, I care about their website, I care about the website’s users (their customers), and the experience they have while using my creation. What I care about […]
Much search engine optimization revolves around guessing how users will search to find your site. When you’re optimizing for organic (non-paid) search results, you may be surprised to find out how much word order impacts the search ranking. Optimize your website for organic search with varying keyword order If you search the major search engines, […]
Westside Business Builders is a networking group based in Golden, Colorado. Their website provides general information about the group, and it serves as a member directory. Katz Web Design is a member of the group. The membership committee asked Katz Web Design to prepare a proposal for the WSBB website, and this Wednesday, the group voted […]
I use LesterChan‘s Download Manager plugin, and it’s great. Good interface, simple purpose. I recently found out that after upgrading a client’s site to WP 2.5, WP-DownloadManager was no longer working. I followed the documentation on the plugin website, including resetting the permalink structure, but nothing worked. For some reason the re-write wasn’t working properly: all […]
I was pleasantly surprised to find out that one of my first clients in Lakewood, Colorado is now ranked top 5 for their primary keyword/key phrases: SEO results for New Choices Plus At the time of writing this article, here is their ranking in Google: Denver lavage: 3 Denver colon hydrotherapy: 1 Denver colon cleanse: […]
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Getting closer on my own website design
↑ A little sneak peek of my new web design “You need to finish your web site“ My website has been in a transitional state for almost a year. Thankfully, in spite of that, Katz Web Design has been thriving. I’ve been so busy that I’ve not had reasonable time to focus on my business’ […]
I’ve been working with the WordPress platform for a little while now, and I’ve been a regular blogger since January (though I had been promoting blogging for years earlier, and had my first blog in 2000 [yes, I’m a bit insecure about my blogging creds]). I’ve created many sites with blogging capabilities, some of them […]
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Load time improvements
Load time matters Imagine waiting 18 seconds for a page to load (on a high-speed connection) — not just the home page, but any inside page of a website. Pretty frustrating, right? Having bad load times makes a huge difference to your customers. I helped a new client reduce page load time from 19 seconds […]
I just finished meeting with a client who told me that she had met with multiple other designers, and that I was the only one who provided any ideas for marketing her website. It’s pretty unbelievable. She has a new product that is not yet launched — very under wraps — and wants to spread […]
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Back at the office
My wife and I are now back from our 1 week vacation. We stayed at home, and were able to: Paint! The living room My office The kitchen Buy! A corner TV stand A SolaTube (which has made our living room 300% more pleasant) A new desk for my office Gallons of paint (see “Paint!” above […]
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Oy! Vat I need is a vacation!
Sometimes my thoughts have a yiddish accent… And sometimes, I do something about my thoughts — like go on vacation until May 5th. So, the Webs, I’ll be not online. Hope the Internet’s there when I get back 🙂
I normally don’t work with ASP; I use PHP for my coding. Recently, I had to create a style.css.asp file, and I needed to find how to set a far-futures header in ASP. Here’s what I found in 5 minutes 🙂 :
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A web design testimonial from Todd Colchin
Today at the Westside Business Builders meeting, Todd Colchin of Colchin Automotive & Diesel gave Katz Web Design a testimonial: Our website is just barely up — and we’ve not done anything with it yet — and yesterday, we got two new customers who came into our shop who found us by our website! They […]
I am designing and creating a real estate website with WordPress, and I’m going to be writing a few articles that detail how it’s done. This article will get you started — please leave feedback with any questions or topic requests for the next installment. Real estate using WordPress Part 2 is now available! A little background — […]
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Review: career day at Lakewood High School
It was my first career day at a high school (since being in high school), and it was fine. I remembered that high schoolers are just kids and nowhere near adults yet. There were some kids that had already started designing their own websites, one knew Ruby on Rails, one was very interested in design. […]
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Making technology that is more human
There’s a problem with technology: it’s not human. Technology often can’t express when there are problems, especially when it doesn’t know problems exist. There’s a gap between the consumer and the product that can often only be bridged by a middle-man repair shop. Creating products that communicate their problems effectively is one of the next […]
A man called yesterday wanting to have his Denver IT Services website optimized. He had called multiple search engine optimization specialists in Denver, and each one had given him the same proposal: spend thousands of dollars per month, and take a long time. Check out what the SEO companies said He had been told the following by […]
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