Not wanting to be guilty of speaking “techie jargon” that the client doesn’t understand, I often use analogies to explain website options and services. While none of my analogies are perfect, I hope they make clearer some of the matters related to websites for most people.
Tract Home or Custom Home?
When selecting a platform for your website, what is more critical for you? Cost vs. Flexibility
If you were having a new home built, there are many approaches you can choose.
A tract home is typically faster to build and less expensive than designing and building a custom-built home. But you will also have less options and flexibility. For example, you can select from perhaps several available floor plans, and choose your paint color and carpeting from the options offered.
In both cases, you can bring whatever furniture (i.e., your website content) you want into each room, but perhaps that gorgeous hardwood table you inherited from your grandparents won’t fit into the tract home’s dining area. In a custom home, you can have the architect design a formal dining room around the dimensions of the table AND that antique rosewood buffet you found that complemented it so nicely. You can even install an elevator to accommodate your aging parent in your custom-designed home.
It is likely you will need to pay substantially more for a custom home, but you can specify pretty much anything you want, as long as it is possible and you have the budget for it.
Of course, just as there are many different tract home developments, there are different website platforms to select from. Each have their own pros and cons, features and functionalities, limitations, and pricing structure.
After learning about your business and website needs, UmeWorks can discuss with you the options that make sense for your specific website and budget, and the options pros and cons for each.
Teeth Cleaning vs. Root Canals
Why It is Important to Maintain Your Website’s Software
Most people don’t enjoy paying for and going for teeth cleanings and oral check-ups. However, keeping your teeth and gums clean and healthy can prevent, or at least reduce the risk of, needing often painful and expensive major dental work such as root canals or gum surgery.
For those who have a WordPress-based website, or any other site that has software version updates, I strongly recommend you invest in regular software maintenance service.
Why? Because just like regular dental check-ups and teeth cleaning, most software updates are preventive health measures for your website. Most updates are for security protection, bug fixes, and compatibility resolution. Yes, some also include new functionality as well.
Having these updates done regularly prevents potential display and functionality issues, and expensive and lengthy clean up to track down and apply a backlog of software updates from WordPress core files, patches, plugins and theme files.
UmeWorks can provide monthly software maintenance of your WordPress site and Machform script.
Are you a Wallflower at Cocktail Parties?
The Importance of Social Media Engagement
So, you’ve been proudly posting regularly to your Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest accounts. But no one is commenting or Liking your posts.
Why that may be can be a plethora of reasons (too many to cover here), but one of the reasons can be is because you are a wallflower at the cocktail party. Or worst you’re acting like BMOC*-in-your-own-mind and talking about yourself and how great you and your company are every chance you have.
Think of the other party goers’ reaction. Instead, if you introduce them to others you know and talk them up, perhaps they’ll do the same for you. Some of their friends may even come over and ask you to tell them about you.
*Big Man On Campus
I Want Red Marbles
Why You Should Choose Keyword Phrases Per Web Page
If you want some red marbles, which glass would you choose to get them? The one on the right that contain the most red marbles, of course.
Imagine that a web page is a glass full of marbles. The marbles are the words (and metadata) on that page.
If you are a local auto repair shop in Torrance and you have expertise in hybrid auto repair. You want hybrid car owners in Torrance to find you. Be sure you have a web page (glass) dedicated to hybrid auto repair so those hybrid car owners in Torrance can find you. Be sure to fill the page with the keywords hybrid auto service Torrance (red marbles).
UmeWorks can help you integrate red marbles into each page of your website.
Learn more about on-page SEO, keyword phrases and red marbles.
