What Steps Is Your Business Taking in Tough Economic Times?
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008Everywhere you turn economic news ranges from bad to truly depressing. What are you doing to help position your business to weather turbulent economic times?
As far as our business, we have a number of strategies that I believe will not only help us survive but prosper. These strategies I believe will not only make our […]
Is This the Future of Computing?
Monday, October 20th, 2008Get ready for on-slaught of low cost, small, green computers.
I remember in the mid 90’s, talk about how the future of computing was moving away from massive hard drive, application intensive computers to smaller, less application intensive computers that relied on the net for applications and storage space. The idea never took off, but things […]
Help Your Business Weather the Current Financial Troubles
Friday, October 17th, 2008The news isn’t good. Personally, I have had to turn off the CNBC because the news has been so overwhelming bad. I am not trying to avoid the realities of the current business climate but you can only take so much and ultimately the more important question is “How can I make my business stronger […]
Posted in Business Practices, How-to, Favorite Links | No Comments »>Setting Up a Wordpress Site- Hosting
Monday, October 13th, 2008Hosting Explained
After you have your domain name you will want to set up hosting. Hosting is where your site will reside on the world wide web. Most hosting packages are shared hosting packages. This means that your site is on a server with a number of other web sites and all these sites share resources […]
Marketing Resources for Your Small Business
Monday, October 6th, 2008Hey, any small business owner lives with the daily reality that business survival means they have to wear many different hats. Effectively marketing your business is one of those realities! Marketing may or may not be your particular area of expertise but never the less is critical to your small business. Especially, in current economic […]
Posted in Business Practices, How-to, Quick Tip, Favorite Links | No Comments »>Interview- Holly Grundon, Creative Director bhg
Saturday, October 4th, 2008Holly is the creative director here at bhg GRAPHIC DESIGN. Holly started bhg in 1995 when she was between gigs after she moved to Brooklyn, NY. Initially, bhg was a place to park the occasional freelance design job between 1995-2000 when she worked at Scholastic Inc., both as Art Director and as Interim Creative Director […]
Posted in Business Practices, Interviews | No Comments »>Your Online Business Plan
Friday, September 26th, 2008Like anything you do with your business you need (or should) make a plan. Unless you are in the habit of wasting time and money, having an effective strategy for your on line presence is important. Take the time to plan how your web presence will enhance and support your business objectives and keep […]
Posted in Business Practices, Quick Tip | No Comments »>Blog Is A Four Letter Word
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008When it comes to writing blog posts it can be like pulling teeth. We build a lot of blogging components for clients along with obviously keeping our own blog. Often starting and maintaining a blog can take a Herculean effort. “Hey, client work needs to be done! Contractors need to be paid! Whose going to […]
Posted in Business Practices, Copy writing, Ruminations, Web 2.0 | No Comments »>Economic Downturn, Now What?
Friday, September 19th, 2008You can’t swing a dead cat these days without hearing the bad news about the economy. It’s not hard to get mired in the doom and gloom and become recession roadkill. But bad times can spark some critical re-thinking and self evaluation. I found this on the webs today on how to help recession proof […]
Posted in Business Practices, Ruminations, Favorite Links | No Comments »>One Page Web site–Does Your Business Really Need More?
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008We have designed plenty of sites for small business’ and individuals and the one thing that I find is that often these clients do not have the need to present copious amounts of information or the desire to create it.
Fact is most users that visit such a site are there for just a few […]
10 Essential Design Tips for A Great Looking Site
Sunday, October 21st, 2007Since many business owners come to the web with a defined sense of who they are and what their product is, creating content can be easy. But creating a web site that visually compliments that content can be a bit vexing. This isn’t to say that you can’t have a great looking web site . […]
Posted in Business Practices, How-to, Design Basics | No Comments »>Why Web Standards Matter for Your Business Web Site
Monday, October 8th, 2007A few months ago when Brendan, our lead developer, joined bhg GRAPHIC DESIGN we were having a discussion about the importance of building standards complaint sites (specifically validating our sites xhtml 1.0 “strict”). Sounds like a lot of goobley gook . . . RIGHT? Well until you consider that “xhtml strict” sites provide greater […]
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