Web Site Resources

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Articles and how-to's

We are in the process of forming a series of articles that will help you with planning or augmenting your internet endeavors. Future articles will include:

Effective web sites from the planning angle

The big guy has put you in charge of electronic marketing. You need to hire a site designer and make sure the whole thing is a success. How do you make sure it gets done right? Where do you even begin?

Writing copy that sells

Tips for getting through to potential customers, getting them to read and like what they see.

The power of photographs

Illustrating your site with photographs can have a tremendous impact, if it's done properly.

Ranking well with search engines

Quick tips and hard facts about how search engines work. Included are things you can do to your site to maximize your exposure.

Color

Which range of colors is appropriate for you site? Your subject, your audience and your content dictate what's good and what's not.

Communication

No matter how impressive a site may appear, it will not do it's job if it fails to communicate.

Web site maintenance

Who should be in charge of updating the web site? When new pages need to be created, or existing pages inserted with new content, who should do the work? And why.

Taking photographs for your site

These guidelines will help you take better photographs for your website. They're especially helpful if you plan to allow us to enhance them and place them on your site.

Sending products to us to photograph

These guidelines will help us keep your items in order and allow us to better maintain their names and/or skus when designating and maintaining file names.