How many sites do you check everyday for news? With so many news sites, blogs and the like it’s impossible to stay up with everything. That’s where RSS steps in. It’s a great way for you to “subscribe” to the sites you want and then they push the news to you rather than you checking [...]
Archive for April, 2007
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Posted in Uncategorized on April 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Most Important Thing-Quality Photos
Posted in Uncategorized on April 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’m working with a new golf client right now and we got to talking about the initial design elements for his site. I’m a firm believer that navigation is critical, so we began with that. But I started thinking about if there was a “most important thing” for a good golf site. And I think [...]
Video on your Golf Website
Posted in Web Design on April 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
No question, video is the next big thing for golf websites. But just like adding photos to your site, it has to be done right. I think Seven Canyons is doing a great job. My only suggestion is the video should not start automatically. The photos and video definitely make me want to visit this [...]
Attracting Visitors Part II
Posted in Web Design on April 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve gone over a few pointers on how to increase your ranking and therefore traffic from search engines. Now I would like to talk about keywords.
When someone types into Google “St. Paul Golf”, those sites that include those keywords will come to the top. And when search engines rank the keywords in your site, they place the most [...]
Golf Course Blogs
Posted in Web Design on April 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve wondered if any club has been using blogs successfully as a way to communicate with their members. Now I think I have the answer as Northland CC has a great blog. Some items just don’t seem like they fit in an email or on your website. One unique and positive aspect of blogs as that people [...]
Attracting Visitors
Posted in Web Design on April 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
There are many ways to attract visitors to your site but none may be more important than using good SEO (search engine optimization) techniques. Search engines, and Google specifically, will always be your main source of getting new viewers.
We already touched on why you should not use graphics as a way of displaying text. Search [...]
