For most website owners the dream is to just hand over the keys to the site to someone else to handle all the maintenance, updates, design decisions, security, registrations, licenses, hosting issues, and all the related “tech” stuff that feels so bothersome. And, of course, this is possible, but it’s not the budget option. And, to be honest, it may not be the wisest option.
Lots of digital service providers — web designers and developers, SEO professionals, copy writers, branding agencies — like to give back to their communities and offer pro bono work (i.e. free services) to businesses and non-profits who may otherwise not be able to afford a professional-looking or fully-featured website with carefully crafted copy optimized for…
Design Matters
Such a cliché! So bland and clichéd that I generally forget that it is true!
But this week I had a pretty visceral illustration of the power of design – whether in support of the forces of good or of evil.
The background is that I’ve been doing design work for a very small classical record label for more than 15 years. High quality recordings, but a pretty small, niche market. I don’t know what the sales are, but print runs are short…
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Okay, not officially. But it sure seems like hacked is the new black. I had barely cleaned the New Year’s confetti out of my ears before I was called upon to reconstruct a WordPress site that had been completely taken down by some malicious files. Luckily, the database hadn’t been attacked, and I had a…
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