It's a Mesh: merging web, mobile and traditional marketing

If your website doesn't have a mobile version, you must correct that!  Too many sites either display poorly on mobile devices, or even worse, don't display at all.  Recently I tried to visit a site on my iPhone, but it opened up to a blank white page; when I got back to the office I browsed to the site on my laptop and found that it's built entirely on Flash.  That results in nothing to display on the iPhone!

Luckily, when I initially tried to visit the site I wasn't looking to buy or researching a company I may want to do business with; if that had been the case, they would have had a lost sale.

We recently launched the newly redesigned and redeveloped website for Virginia's Motorsports Alley, a regional Tourism and Economic Development initiative; the new site can be viewed at motorsportsalley.com.

The old site was developed several years ago by another company, focusing mainly on Economic Development, and we were contracted to develop an additional Tourism section.   The project scope grew when it was determined that the site's content management system needed to be upgraded to a new version, requiring a new layout to be designed for the new cms version, so the project ended up being a complete site redesign and redevelopment.

Or in this case, the keyword star.

As the web matures and becomes more entwined with our lives, sometimes words aren't enough to attract search engines.  The latest buzz is that having videos on your site will not only give you more interesting content, but may also help with your search engine placement.  Search engines are trying to give more variety in their results, and the word is that the algorithms are stacked to give preference to pages including video.

I sincerely doubt it, but too many small business owners trust their website - the face of their business that literally anyone in the the entire world can view - to someone because they're cheap.  And that's NOT the way you would choose a home builder.

Designing and developing a custom website is much like building a custom home: compare square footage to site size, upgrades and amenities to site features, and livability to usability.  Sure, you can buy a tract home and there's nothing wrong with that, but your home will look like many others and won't reflect your personality and lifestyle preferences.  Cheap websites are usuallly cookie-cutter sites built from fill-in-the-content templates; that may be good enough for your starter site, but eventually you'll outgrow it and want something that's more reflective of your branding, useful for your customers and staff, and professional.