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The articles here are aimed to educate our clients, and pass along industry information that is important to you.
Even though you are hiring a web designer for your website, that doesn't mean that you shouldn't stay involved, or try to understand the differences in how your website will function. These articles are a mixture of ones that we write for our clients as well as interesting tidbits that we find on the web.
What will this website cost me to maintain in the future?
What platform do you do the website in?
How long will you take to complete my website?
How many hours of training and support do I get with my website?
Do I own the site? Can I take it with me if I decide to use another designer?
What are my hosting costs?
Can I expand my website in the future?
Who will write the content?
How much SEO is involved?
Does this website work for my business?
You have heard the term "use a template" when it comes to your website. But what does that really mean? We can explain it more to you here.
A template is a very common way of doing a website. There are many limitations to a templated website that companies tend not to think about.
In the short term, they might work. In the long term, they inevitably break. What is the difference between them? We try to explain it in realistic terms.
You hear a lot about the important of SEO, or Search Engine Optimization lately. How important is it? And what do you, and your web designer need to know about it? Get the realistic "small business" point of view on SEO.
Open Source Drupal Marks the Spot for eBay’s X.com
(taken from Wired Enterprise, at www.wired.com)
eBay is the latest tech giant to embrace Drupal, the open source content management system that now runs an estimated 2 percent of all websites on the planet.
As eBay formally launched its new X.commerce business unit — a sweeping effort to bridge the worlds of online and offline payments — the company revealed it had moved the unit’s X.com website to Drupal, dropping the proprietary Jive Software platform the site previously used.
“We found that Drupal offers more tools and does so faster,” Neal Sample, chief technology officer of open commerce at eBay, told Wired.
“There were certain tools we needed built, and often, if you go to a single vendor, you just get in line with everyone else. With Drupal, we can tap into a bigger developer community to get the tools we wanted — if they weren’t there already.”
