Author Jay Levinson, in his book Guerrilla Marketing, page 216, makes the following observation about your website presence:"If you've decided to market online, the first rule of which you should be aware of is the RULE OF THIRDS: You should determine the budget you'll have for online marketing, then invest one third in developing your site, one third in promoting your site, and one third in maintaining your site. Most ill-advised online marketers invest three thirds in developing their … [Read more...]

I am always looking for more ways to tell people about our company and I found setting up a quick blog with blogger.com to be very easy way to do this. Since I am trying to show up on the search engines as much as possible under the keyword phrase Alaska Web Design I went ahead and named the blog with this in mind.You can view this very basic blog at http://alaskawebdesign.blogspot.com/Cheers,Joe Law … [Read more...]

If you have ever developed a website you realize very quickly that it can be difficult to make the site work well across all the major browsers and operating systems. At Sundog Media one tool we use to ensure that our clients sites are as compatible as possible with the modern browsers is http://crossbrowsertesting.com/. … [Read more...]

I am a nut about backing up data and one challenge has been finding a good way to archive all my email. Several years ago I setup an email address account with google and have found this to be a great way to keep a backup of my email.STEPS:1. I have my email automatically forwarded to my gmail account as well as come to my regular mail account.2. I have my mail client set to automatically BCC to my gmail account when I send messagesI do occasionally manage to delete or lose an … [Read more...]

Any website designer will tell you, forms are tricky to build and tricky to code. I almost always groan internally when I hear someone ask for one. But not any longer. The folks over at Wufoo have changed all of that. They've created a system that, "helps you create contact forms, online surveys, and invitations so you can collect the data, registrations and online payments you need without writing a single line of code." Isn't that nice of them?Plus, they've included some cool … [Read more...]

Share your website content without lifting a finger! It's fast, it's easy, and the best part is, it's almost free!When we incorporate "Social Networking" software directly into your website, your visitors can easily "share" your content on their own personal social networking sites, sites like Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and sooooo many others.Every page of your website will have this cool little button. Click to see how it looks and works on our site.Imagine...your content being … [Read more...]

...including your website. During your Internet travels you may have come across articles or comments about validating your website. I'm sure most of them said there was a need for it, and I'm sure a lot of them said "You'd better have that done, or it's the end of the World as we know it!" kinda thing.But what is website Validation and how does it work?Well, a few years back a consortium of Über-geeks got together and formed the W3C, or "The World Wide Web Consortium" (cue Darth … [Read more...]

Sometimes a web application comes along that is just so great you have to share all about it. 1Password - http://agilewebsolutions.com/products/1Password - created by Agile Web Solutions certainly has created a winner for mac users and I live by this application. I cannot tell you how great it is to only have to remember 1 password.Features:• Enters online usernames and passwords so that you don't have to remember them.• Strong Password Generator automatically creates and fills … [Read more...]