MH1 Web Design Blog

by Mike Hallaron, MH1 Web Design

Small business owners planning a new company website need not worry about copying the look, feel, and function of larger, corporate websites. Instead take advantage of the uniqueness that is your small business venture.

In 10 Things Customers Want on a Website, Entrepreneur.com’s Monte Enbysk explains, “small businesses have a personality, flavor and sensibility that big company sites can’t match.” So, don’t join them them, revel in your smallness.

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(from www.sixapart.com)

Many websites have links labeled “XML” or “RSS” or “Atom”. All of these are ways of saying that you can find out about updates to that site without having to visit the site in your web browser.

This feature is referred to as “syndication” or “aggregation”. Sometimes it’s just called subscribing. And these days, instead of one of these words, lots of sites will the little orange button.

All these links and buttons mean the same thing: The site you’re viewing has a feed available.

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by Mike Hallaron
MH1 Web Design and Hallaron PR

Why use a domain redirect?

There are many reasons to redirect your website URLs. 

1. If web pages have moved but their old URLs are still saved in customers bookmarks or among the search engine indexes. Without redirection, their visits will lead to a 404 Error Page.
2. If you own several different extensions of your business URL, such as… .com, .net, .biz, etc… set a redirect for each domain to the main website.
3. Perhaps you have different websites for each division of your company. Each division may have its own individual domain name.

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from Mashable.com

WARNING: Facebook Malware Attack Behind Distracting Beach Babes Video http://mashable.com/2010/05/22/facebook-beach-babes/

by Mike Hallaron

Your company could benefit from a business blog. Daily output of internal company news and other boring minutiae is not necessary. As few as 3-4 regular monthly articles or “posts” could kickstart your sluggish marketing effort. Your content should be useful and relevant to your business to see positive results.

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