You can never be too rich or too thin said the Dutchess of Windsor. But, as a website design & development company, we do know that you can be over SEOd. Just ask Google. It was only a couple of years ago that Google started looking for “over SEOd” sites. That is, sites with keyword… Read More
Will the Heartbleed security bug affect security on your site? When you’re a website design & development company you quickly learn that, when it comes to the Internet, you have to be ready for anything and everything. Such was the case when the Heartbleed security bug was discovered last week. Why is it called Heartbleed?… Read More
As a website design & development company, we see lots of dumb things occur when uninitiated try to practice search engine optimization. After all SEO takes time to learn and it’s no wonder that there are those do-it-yourselfers out their who think they can outsmart Google. As a website design & development company one thing… Read More
As a New Hampshire based website design & development company, we visited a prospective client just outside of New York City about a year ago. They liked us, but they were located just across from Manhattan and decided to go with a fancy New York firm that promised an elegant site and beautiful content. They… Read More
As the creative director for a website design and development company, I pay attention to marketing materials. I was thumbing through a pretty technical car magazine yesterday and ran across an ad that had a highly stylized illustration of a car. The ad was in color and took up a full page. This page probably… Read More
Slick agency syndrome is a lot like Stockholm syndrome, wherein a business is held hostage by a slick website design & development company and eventually succumbs to and starts believing all the B.S. Eventually, the client breaks the spell, but not before the slick website design & development firm has wasted a lot of money… Read More
Small and even medium sized businesses have long relied on their relatives, friends and other semi tech savvy people to be their “website design agency.” And it worked just find for a number of years. But, as website design & development becomes ever more sophisticated and it has increasingly become hard to rank in the… Read More
There’s a glaring problem with modern website design and development. First, it’s not very modern. Far too many web shops are comprised of one or two people. They are expected to know all the software, coding, SEO techniques, content creation, social media, digital marketing and a whole host of other capabilities. All of the above… Read More
There’s a real conundrum for website design and development agencies and their clients. Clients (and presumably the users of their websites) absolutely love clean, simple, beautifully designed home pages. Unfortunately, Google hates them. Well, they don’t really hate them, per se, but they do ignore them, largely because there is no text. Google search algorithms… Read More
There isn’t a week that goes by that I don’t get a call from a frantic customer that involves their website and loss of control of that site. It always amazes us at Kirk that companies entrust their customer face to an a person who has little vested interest in the success of the company. … Read More
About 20% of our web projects are failed projects that were started with another Website Design and Development company. They will find us through search or through other trusted partners as a company that can help rebuild their failed project. Most Website Design and Development companies come from a back ground of web development, not… Read More
In the old days you could hire a website design and development person who knew a couple of coding languages, throw up a site and you were in business. As the web grew more sophisticated you hired a web design agency to update or redesign your site. But hire a typical website design and development… Read More
After an extensive two-year investigation, the Federal Trade Commission has determined that the way Google arranges search results is not a violation of antitrust or anti-competition laws. “While not everything Google did was beneficial, on balance we did not believe that the evidence supported an FTC challenge to this aspect of Google’s business under American… Read More
As a website design and development company, we’re doing more and more work for traditional ad agencies, marketing firms and PR firms. There are several reasons for this: First, the aforementioned know that, while they can create the one-off website, they can’t do all of the highly integrated work that a good website design &… Read More