Web Design, Development and Internet Marketing for Small Business
We often take it for granted, but one of the great things about WordPress (and any CMS, of course) is the separation of data and presentation. So a site re-design often means re-purposing the existing data into a new look. Often we hear, “Wow! Love your new website!” when it’s exactly the same content just [...] Read more »
Don’t Assume They “Got” Your Message the 1st Time … or the 2nd … or … Or, in other words, just because they received your message, don’t assume they “got” it. When I first began offering SEO and Content Marketing I sent around an email explaining how I’d come to the realization the web design [...] Read more »
If you’re in the East Bay area of Northern California, I encourage you to consider attending the Profit Margin Magic Workshop on Thursday, August 16, 2012 at the San Ramon Conference Center in San Ramon, CA. “Profit Margin Magic” workshops are produced by Fat Margins, a firm founded in 1996 to help business owners increase [...] Read more »
All small business owners wear many hats – in fact, some of us wear ALL the hats. This, of course, is often a necessity and there is simply no choice. One of the drawback of wearing ALL the hats – besides often eliminating our weekends – is that we don’t have someone with whom we [...] Read more »
I recently completed a terrific online SEO and Social Media class led by Jason McDonald of the JM Internet Group. Geared primarily for small to medium sized businesses who want to implement their own SEO strategies, these courses were a wonderful mixture of theory and application, deftly carried off with a light touch and warm [...] Read more »
A recent blog post, SRVHS Wolf Foundation, highlights the completion of this website (http://srvhswolffoundation.org) and also spotlights many of the advantages to civic groups and organizations with using WordPress. Last Laugh Creative has been fortunate in the last several years to have been given the opportunity to work with many fine organizations who have embraced [...] Read more »
Wait a minute – isn’t this the guy who told us just a while back the Web Design is Dead…! Yup, that was me. And I meant what I said then … and I mean what I say now. Boy, this guy is talking out of both sides of his mouth – is he running [...] Read more »
From the good – and very bright – folks over at SEOBook: How Google Works. It’s amazing how rapidly this – and Google in general – has become completely woven into the fabric of our online life. Not really that long ago that we were all using Alta Vista & Yahoo & dozens of other [...] Read more »
So said the Web Designer. Huh? “…long live web design!” Now I’m very confused. I’ve been designing websites for over 10 years. Like everyone else back in the Dark Ages I built my sites using tables and all those wonderful HTML tags such as font etc. It was all so easy in Dreamweaver: change the [...] Read more »
“Your sites are always blue,” so said a graphic designer friend whose opinion I highly value. So I built a website without a hint of blue in it. In fact, it was basically black and orange (yes, I know – Halloween) with various shades of gray. It was okay. We’ve all had that awful feeling [...] Read more »