A Brief Look Back on How I Got Into Website Development and Digital Marketing

I caught the website design and digital marketing bugs in high school, when I took my very first steps into web development with an HTML coding class that I stepped out of my comfort zone to take. Over the last 18-plus years since beginning this web design and development journey, I have leveraged a wide range of modern technologies and platforms, including HTML5, PHP, WordPress/WooCommerce, Magento, and Shopify, to build dozens of websites and develop content for both businesses and individuals. Throughout this period and continuing to this day, SEO has been a major focus. My coding specialties include HTML5,

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What You Need To Know About Small Business SEO

SEO is one of the most important factors in determining whether your customers find your small business website, or a rival one – that makes it crucial to your company’s revenue stream. While SEO is multi-faceted and ever-evolving, I’ve pinpointed the crucial things that you need to know if you run a small business. What is SEO & why should my SME care about it anyway? SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization and it’s a tactic for getting your website to feature as high as possible in search results. Why is that important to your small business? Because the higher

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Getting Your Small Business Website Professionally Designed

Small business website design is important but difficult, and let’s face it, starting your own small business can be stressful enough (though, of course, but it can also be rewarding). One of the biggest stresses that seem to pop up, particularly in E-Commerce websites during the early design phase, is actually how to go about getting a website built in the first place, since most successful businesses today have their own websites. It’s true, there are various do it yourself (DIY) website builders that you can utilize yourself, but many fall short of providing the intuitive services that your small

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Designing the Web Today: A Little Simplicity Can Go a Long Way

As many of you know, I have decided to pause the writing site of my career for a time to focus on the website design career. What I’ll be discussing today is how important simplicity can be in design. When it comes to web design and development, it can be tempting to opt for a flashy, colorful, and noisy website. However, one thing you quickly learn in the web design business is that a little simplicity can go a long way. Case in point, in my work for both Well Prepared and HEALTHandMED, I took the websites from a cluttered,

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