Aldebaran Web Design's Blog

I recently listened in on an online internet marketing webinar – and one of the participants asked the person hosting the event what the best content management system was to use for a small business website that was search engine friendly and easy to use. Their answer might surprise you.

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Frequently I received phone calls and emails from small business owners who need updates done to their websites. I ask them what happened to their website’s original designer, and answer is always the same: “they disappeared, I tried to reach them but they won’t answer my email/phone calls and I need changes to my website”.

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What’s the most important mission of your small business website? To direct people to your contact page, fill out your contact form, hit submit. But how do you know your contact form is actually functioning properly?

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You’re a small business owner and you are developing a new website. How do you know what the best keywords are to select? There are many tools web designers can use to calculate the number of searches and assess the competition for particular keywords. Here’s a very fast, free Google tool you can use to check out the potential search traffic for different sets of keywords by region.

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After being with DreamHost for over six years, I’ve moved my website and nearly 50 clients to BlueHost. Even though I had been a loyal DreamHost customer, and sent them many new hosting clients, they were not so supportive after they made a change that disabled many of my clients’ contact forms. Their response was simply unacceptable, and so the exodus began. The story is below:

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You know you’re going to have a bad day when you Google your website and see the warning “This Site May be Compromised” in blue underneath your website address:

This is what happened to one of my clients. Find out what we did to fix this and get the warning removed.

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For the past two days (7/25/12 and 7/26/12) I am having difficulty sending emails to my clients who have gmail accounts. I am sending from my ISP, which is Comcast. Details of what I am getting are below. This has happened with 4 of my clients who use gmail. Anyone else having this issue?

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I read today that Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, died at the age of 61. I was in college at the University of Florida when she blasted off in June of 1983 and decided to drive down to Cape Canaveral to see the launch.

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Once upon a time, DreamHost (my hosting company) offered Live Chat for it’s VPS (Virtual Private Server) clients. Then it expanded to all clients. Then it disappeared. I wondered, is it ever coming back?

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Many years ago, I entered my Seattle web design business info into Yelp. I got a few reviews from clients and forgot about it. Then recently I logged in to change my business address, and discovered that all my reviews are now “filtered”.

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