Articles by Holly Neumann
Is Your Website Vulnerable to Hacking?
John is a CPA and is much too busy to maintain his WordPress website. He hadn’t updated the software in at least 6 months. A client commented one day that John’s site had ads all over it. John had no idea that his site had been hacked. Hackers earn money from ad impressions and had
Would you know If Your Website was Down?
8 hours 45 minutes 36 seconds yearly is the total downtime that a website may have on a server who guarantees 99.9% uptime. I don’t know about you but 8hrs a year seems like a lot when profitability is at stake. And those stats are just in regards to possible hosting issues. There are many
How does your website perform?
The #1 factor that influences a website’s performance the most is the hosting environment. 79% of consumers will avoid a website if it has performance issues. In the 1st year of my web design business I noticed that working on websites that were shared hosting on certain big hosting services was painstakingly slow work and
What’s a Footer?
Can viewers easily find important information on your website? The footer of a website is the area at the bottom of every page that has valuable information like policies, phone numbers, addresses and maybe an email sign-up form, just to name a few examples. Users intentionally scroll to the footer to find that information. So this area
Do Fonts Matter?
The body area of a webpage comes after the hero section (the top area that you first see). It’s the meat of a webpage and the page element with the most information. As with everything on a website, it’s important to make it easy on the viewer. So ornate fonts are best reserved for headlines
Does your website get A viewer’s attention in 3 seconds or less?
The hero section of a webpage is first thing someone sees and is the page’s most important area. It’s just under the navigation or main menu. The hero section is where you grab someone’s attention to keep reading. It’s important that the hero section have a clear concise statement about the business or webpage’s purpose
Web Design: Creative and Standardized….Can you have both?
The area of a webpage that contains the logo and page menu is called the header. Standardization of the header makes the website easier to use which means more pages are visited and viewers stay on the site longer. I usually put the header at the top of a website which is the most expected
Is your website setting your business apart from the competition?
Or does it make you look like everyone else? Being small a small business is an asset and one of a small business’s best differentiators. Many times a small business has a unique story. One of my client’s had a serious boating accident. During recovery she connected the dots between having a healthy mind and
Why do you Pick one business over another?
Personal service is a big reason many people Choose small companies over large ones. Personal service makes us feel special and makes it worth spending our hard earned cash. So drawing attention to the fact a business is small is key in making a small business stand out from others in their industry. It is
