Category Archives: Work
You’re Ruining Your Site on Mobile
I’ve written previously about my love of reading my RSS feed on my phone before I go to sleep every night. It’s the perfect way for me to end my day. However, there is one bad trend I notice on mobile sites and it really interferes with what I want to do on the site…
Don’t Be Foolish With Your Domain Name
Over my 5 years at LyntonWeb I’ve helped launch hundreds of new website, and that’s not an exaggeration. When launching a new site, you need to update the DNS to point the domain name to the new server (if there is one; there usually is for us). Wait, “what is DNS?”, you’re probably asking. DNS, or domain name…
3 Sad Excuses You Don’t Have A Real Website [And Why You Need One]
There are times where I am searching for a business, band, restaurant, whatever, and the top result is a Google+ Place page, or a Yelp page. Or worse, a Facebook page. No real website. This usually happens with smaller or new businesses. Don’t get us wrong. Having a Facebook, Google+ Page, and Yelp pages are…
How to Maintain Your New Inbound Website [Maintenance Checklist]
Look at you with that fancy new website! Now you can sit back and relax until it’s time to redo your website in a few years, right? Wrong. So wrong. Websites are like cars, they need regular maintenance. Like, what would you do if your website kept making a cuuur-CHUNK noise every time you turned…
5 Ways to Protect Your WordPress Site From Hackers
You may have heard that it’s been a busy week for WordPress hackers this past week. If you haven’t heard, it’s been a busy week for WordPress hackers this past week. ArsTechnica has reported that over 100,000 sites have been infected by these attacks. In under four days, three of my personal sites have had…
4 Website Lies You Should Stop Believing
When you’ve been building websites for as long as we have you hear a lot of lies, falsehoods, misconceptions, and other stuff that makes you do that confused dog look. Don’t fear, though. We’re here to clear some of these things up for you. Here are 4 website lies that you really should stop listening…
How to Connect With Your Audience
We’re long past the days where you could run a business without a website. You need one. That’s not even debated any more. But now that you do have a website (if not, call us) are you talking to your audience? Like, are you truly speaking to them? First off, are you using language that is…
You’ve Launched A New Website! Now What?
Congratulations. Launching a website is a big deal. We should know, we launch a lot of websites. But now that design, development, and quality assurance testing are done and you’ve launched your site, that doesn’t mean that you can kick up your feet and relax. No, your work is just beginning. Your website is a living, breathing part of your sales…
What is Quality Assurance? [Why It’s Important To Your New Website]
QA. Quality Assurance. If you’ve worked on any type of project before you’ve probably heard this term before. If you haven’t, QA is the process during a project where you put the thing you’re working on, in our case, websites, under a series of tests and user scenarios. QA is an important process in any…
You’re Writing Blogs, But Are You Reading Them? [3 Reasons You Should]
I never was a big reader. My mother fought and fought with me to get me to read as a child. As an adult I try to read, but I get bored with books halfway through and abandon them and never look back. But one thing I do read consistently (besides comic books that is) is my…