Tweet Maintaining and managing a website can be a daunting experience for a company without the support team to handle it. Seeing a need to address that issue, Yellow Dogg Designs, in partnership with Hyper-Linx Website Enhancement Services, will be launching a support website to give as little or as much WordPress support as a business or individual needs. The new venture will be called The Press Planet. The Press Planet will provide services for customers who [...]

Tweet As a small business becomes more conscience of the importance of a solid web presence they look for a long-term solution that will successfully provide this. One of the challenges small businesses have is the inability to hire a team of developers within their infrastructure to constantly maintain changing web content. In many cases, once they contract an outside web developer to construct their web site they are faced with the issue of how [...]

Tweet The D-List is a term used in Hollywood to describe persons whose celebrity is so obscure that they are generally only known for appearances as so-called celebrities on panel game shows and reality television. This is the life a lot of websites live because  they do not take the necessary time to pay attention to the important details needed to have a successful website. So instead the website lives a life of obscurity So [...]

Tweet In the late 70′s and early 80′s the daily diary of hip hop could be told on the graffiti splashed buildings and trains of New York. The art formed was no more than the faint sound of freestyle battles on the corners in communities of Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens. As the music industry changed so did Hip Hop. It went from buying a mix tape off the street to downloading an entire album through [...]

Tweet When putting together the ideal website it is important to understand what the visitor is seeing. The layout and design of the website has to be able to keep the visitors’ attention long enough for him or her to understand the organization’s call to action. According to studies, you have about three seconds to capture the visitor’s attention before he/she chooses to stay or go. The way it looks, its flow and how easy it [...]

Tweet In the film Field of Dreams, Kevin Costner’s character, Ray, hears a voice that says “If you build it, (they) will come”. While this may be true about a lot of things, it is not entirely true in the world of web design. A good website can lie dormant and untouched if nothing is done to announce its presence. It is not automatic that if good content occupies webspace people will come view it. [...]

Tweet In this age of social networking, where the world wide web brings people from all parts of the globe together across the Internet bandwidth within seconds, more-than-likely a portion of your clients will meet you through your web presence before they ever meet you in your physical presence; if they ever meet you face-to-face at all. With that in mind, I’m always baffled by how little effort some businesses, many businesses, put into their [...]

Tweet Continuing with The Dogg Blogg Women’s History Month Series this week’s feature is Lanae (The Complex Media & Design). I have always admired her work and was honored to feature her. What I most admired was her ability to transcend her knowledge of design and eye for that perfect look into many different mediums; from photography to multimedia to print and web design. Some people have a way of looking at things in a [...]

Tweet Search engine optimization (SEO) – as a new business owner you’ll soon hear about it (tada). You’ll hear about how wonderful it can be, and how it can solve all your online business woes (as in, “woe is me”) and whoa’s, as in: Whoa! One month on the Internet and still no traffic! Whoa! I spent all this time creating my site and nobody is staying! Whoa! I have no idea what’s happening on [...]