In 2009, we decided to give away a free custom website to a different non-profit group every month. We selected from a group applicants, all from the Edmond and Oklahoma City area. We were so blessed to work with all of these organizations, and it was undoubtedly a rewarding experience. Thanks to all of the…
As you probably know, this year we’ve been giving away one website a month to non-profits here in Oklahoma. Diabetes Solutions was the winner in February, and we launched their site awhile back. Well, we just received their newsletter in the mail the other day, and they were kind enough to include a thank you…
If our incredible service and fantastic communication isn’t enough incentive to purchase a website from T&S, we have the answer: launch boxes. T&S just added a new step in our standard and premium website process. At the end of designing and coding your website, we have decided to send you a “launch box” proceeding the…
Well, in the very, very early hours of this morning, we launched our new website’s design. It had been a traditional “shoemaker’s children” type problem, where our quality of websites and design in generally has continuously improved over the past year, but our site stayed the same because we were busy work on other people’s…
Fireworks is often overlooked. Many (most) web designers today use Photoshop to design their websites, and a lot of them have never considered or (*gasp) even heard of Fireworks. Adobe Fireworks is made for creating websites. That is what it was built for, and it does it well. Fireworks enables you to rapidly prototype and…
Tracking website statistics is a good thing. After all, how can you determine if your website is successful unless you set a goal for it, then track some statistics to see if you are reaching that goal? With that as a given, so much of the traditional view of the important statistics to track just…
Finally, we’re going to talk about the best way for a website to turn a profit, and that’s making actual money. There are a many, many ways for a website to make money, and we’ll talk about a few of those. First, you can sell advertising on your website, either directly or through a broker…
While it’s certainly important that your website looks good, the real goal for your business’s website should be for it to benefit you financially. There are three main ways this can be done. Over the next few weeks, I’m going to be writing about each of these categories, and some ways different clients of ours…
As I’ve mentioned before, we check our websites in six different browser / operating system combinations. Just the other day, my programmer asked me if we could stop checking in one of Opera. For Internet Explorer 6.0, there’s even an IE Death March website dedicated to telling others they should stop checking their websites in…
If you’re only checking your website in the web browser you use, others may not be seeing the site how you intend them to. After all, chances are pretty low that everyone looking at your site is using the same browser you are. Here at T&S Web Design, we test on several browsers on Macs…