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And it happens in seconds! If you've ever been frustrated about a web site taking 10 seconds to load, you will find this video pretty interesting. Created by the World Science Festival, it provides a layman's...
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Free 3by400 eSeminars Provide Business Tips As a service to our clients, 3by400 started a new seminar series that covers a wide variety of topics important to managing and promoting web sites. We started our eSieminar...
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One of our favorite things about redesigning a site is not only what happens on the outside, but on the inside as well. Refacing or restyling a site so that it appears different to the viewer can spike enthusiasm and...
Read more →What makes your business or organization unique? What should people deal with you, rather than any of the other similar outfits? What makes you stand out from the crowd? This is the sort of information the home page of...
Read more →Probably half of our clients rarely, if ever, update their sites. We don't update our home page often, but we do blog semi-regularly. It's just become more important to all of us to update our web site's content...
Read more →When we first wrote this in 2011, the question was about moving off Joomla 1.5. The versions have changed, but the question hasn't. Today, Joomla 4 no longer gets security fixes (they ended October 14, 2025), and Joomla...
Read more →The next time you're watching your favorite show, keep tabs on how many ads show a Facebook logo or end with "find us on Facebook." As much as you might try to avoid it, everyone except you and your dog have a Facebook...
Read more →The previous blog post about our websites being up 99%+ of the time leads to another discussion. We had a prospect who wanted to host with a different outfit. This group guaranteed 100% uptime. We can't guarantee that,...
Read more →Back when we wrote this, we rented two servers at 1and1.com to host our clients' websites. (Our hosting has changed since then, but the lesson hasn't.) One of them had just passed a major milestone: being up without...
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I was going over Google Analytics with one of our clients the other day and noticed that the traffic they were getting from Google search had dropped by about half over the past year. Their site was still the same, but...
Read more →Tell us about your site, or the one you wish you had. We’ll get back to you with next steps.