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We love WordPress. That’s not earth shattering news. I was taking my daughter to get her French horn repaired yesterday and was chatting with the owner of the shop who was having some website issues and he told me he used Joomla. I told him my own website was once in Joomla, but we switched…
I’m a big proponent of having an FAQ page on your website. If someone lands on your site, they probably got there for a reason and not because they clicked through on a cat meme. They probably want more information and probably have some questions. And studies show that if you can answer their questions…
Have you ever noticed that when people have been using a tool or service for a long time, they often feel like they are an expert on that subject, even if they’ve never been behind the scenes? Take teaching, for example. Some people assume that it’s not that hard and they could do it, because…
A lot of people think that if they build a website, they’ll magically get more customers. This is not true, particularly if you make mistakes that drive people away from your website, instead of leading them in. Professional website designers know how to use elements and make websites that people can navigate with ease. Here…
First and foremost, let me be abundantly clear: I am not a lawyer. Please do not take this blog post as legal advice. Nothing is guaranteed or a promise to ensure that you meet GDPR compliancy. This is just an attempt for me to share what I have taught myself regarding these new regulations to…
When you go to buy a product, like a car or a lamp or even a pizza, most people assume they are paying for the parts that went into it. For a car, steel, aluminum, leather, etc. Pepperoni and sausage on your pizza. But you’re also paying for the labor that went into that car…
When we started Sumy Designs in 2006, we were mostly doing static, HTML sites. One of those early sites wanted a blog, so we added WordPress to it. After trying out WordPress, we started trying out some other CMS options. We tried several out, made a few Joomla sites for clients and even had our…
I’ve written about it before. E-commerce is hard. Just having a product and putting it online is not enough to get sales. When it comes to actually selling products online, there are a lot of pieces of this puzzle that need to go together. Whenever I get an email that comes in requesting info on…
You’ve got a new site and you’re ready to use it. Hooray! And you might need a new plugin to do what you need to do. Did you know that there are over 50,000 WordPress plugins in the repository? And that’s only counting free ones available, not counting the myriad of premium, paid plugins that…
In the modern era of website builders, literally anyone can spin up a website in a day and have a new website that’s live for the world to see. I listen to a lot of podcasts and hear ads for SquareSpace and WIX on a daily basis. Add to that the growing number of website builders…
Believe it not, the biggest delays we experience when completing a website results from website owners struggling with content. Everyone wants to showcase their business, their products, their services in the best light but not everyone is a professional writer and tons of people have difficulty coming up with the right words to convey their…
We recently completed work on a site redesign for Community Yoga. The previous site wasn’t bad, but it was created by someone who has a passion for yoga, not someone who has a passion for websites. I’ve always said that when you hire a professional for anything, and not just for a website, you are…
These days, it’s easy to get a website online. You can go to any one of the big DIY builder programs and click and create a new website. What’s not easy is knowing what to put on it, how to make it work well, figuring out how people will use it, and planning a strategy…
We are a company that offers many different solutions outside of just web design services. We can do a lot of things to go with it, like custom logo design, marketing, and SEO. We even do business cards. Fun fact: Your website is much, much more important than your business card. Most business owners are…
If you are looking for a great resource on website usability, the book “Don’t Make Me Think: Revisited, A Common Sense Approach to Web (and mobile) Usability” is a great purchase! This is a particularly good book for those who do design but don’t do the development, because it explains WHY certain design elements may…
A mistake a lot of people make is paying for a new website and then ignoring it for the next ten years. Websites aren’t like cars: as long as you can still drive it, it’s good. Not having an updated website can reflect poorly on you, can make your business look out-of-date and unprofessional. Would…