Coding websites has gone a long way since the days when every page was a single html file. Now there are all sorts of different coding languages at work on modern websites. When we code sites for our clients, we use the newest techniques in html, css, and php, to give you the most state of the art website possible. We also build you a fully customized content management system so that you can update your site yourself if you want to, without having to know anything about coding. But for those wi...

Hi, my name is Virginie Dorn, the CEO of Business Website Center located in California. Today we are going to be discussing online branding. The term 'branding' has been around for many, many years. You're absolutely familiar with it. It is how people perceive you. With the internet having taken over the world, the online branding can be slightly different from your face-to-face branding, especially if you have a brick and mortar in a small town and now you are selling online. Your online brandi...

One of the hardest parts of building a new website, is being able to visualize the end product when it’s in early stages of development. It’s understandable that a lot of our clients may have some anxiety about signing off on a design before they see their own pictures and text in place, which is why it’s good for us to have our client’s content as early as possible. But there is a very good reason why we need to nail down the design structure of a site very early in the process. Not ha...

Today what I want to discuss with you is the importance of first impression online. The truth of the matter is your visitors, within three seconds, will make a judgment call on the quality of your product or services. Three seconds, this is how quickly they will come to a decision. When the visitor first arrive to your website, they're going to judge if they are at the right place. Are you the company for them? Do you provide the quality of service or products they are looking for? Three seconds...

One of the longest processes in developing a new website is waiting for the content that goes onto the site. Writing your website’s own text can be understandably stressful. When you went into business, odds are you were not a writer, and never thought you would have to be much of a writer. But now having a website is part of the cost of doing business and you are suddenly faced with having to adequately represent your business in text form on every single one of your pages. You may be okay wr...

When creating a website, planning for what kinds of photos or graphics will be used is very important. The capabilities of code can only go so far in creating the desired look and feel of a site, and at some point, there needs to be something humanizing for the visitor to see. If websites didn’t have photos, they would only consist of shapes, text, and colors, which can only carry a site so far. Forget, for a moment, that all of your competition are probably decking out their websites with gor...

To a lot of businesses, social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Linkedin, Google+, and many others, are tools that they know they should be using to promote their business, but they don’t really understand how or why they need to use them. Here are 3 ways that Social Media can help boost your business. 1. SEO – Search Engine Optimization should rank near the top of your list for the most important thing to think about concerning your website as it affects h...

The truth is the Internet is not going away. As a business owner you must decide if you want to embrace it and make it work for your business or fight it. To make it work for you, you need to keep it simple. Stay away for trying to be on too many social media platforms unless you have a budget to hire a professional SEO team. Since you only have 24 hours in your day focus on 4 areas: 1) Have a professionally designed website