Why Blog?

There are many reasons why blog has become so popular in the internet media. The reason MWDS has chosen WordPress to become the medium of its corporate site is to first of all become a resource for our current clients and second to reach out to our future clients. Having such a blog site gives our  articles, references and other resources instant access to thos who visit our website. We love making websites and our greatest joy is when we see our client smile and gleem to see their website “come to life.” At the same time, we don’t like to stop there. We strive to make sure we provide as much of our knowledge to jump start our clients’ website business and ultimately reach their goal financially or communicate to their online audience.

“The reason MWDS has chosen WordPress to become the medium of its corporate site is to first of all become a resource for our current clients and second to reach out to our future clients.”

Comment and interact with us 24 hour a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Our website is always open!

Here is a great explanation online regarding blogs. One of my favorite shows in Youtube.com.

Source: The Common Craft Show

Content Management System

Often, I find really cool articles regarding a subject that I need to explain to new clients. Here is a great article I find very informative and well written.

Do you need a Content Management System?

Within the last 3 months, many of our clients have been coming to us wanting to be able to update their own website. Some clients are sick of waiting for days or even weeks on their “web guy” to make updates to their website. Others make changes so frequently they’d just rather do it themselves than pay someone the hourly fees. Here are some things to things to think about when considering if your website needs a content management system or not.

What is a Website Content Management System?

A Content Management System (CMS) is a web-based program or application that allows you to create, edit and manage your website content. A web designer can create a custom design for you and then integrate it as a “theme” or “template” for the CMS being used. Most of the data or content for your website is stored in a database instead of flat files (multiple HTML files linked together). A CMS website is sometimes called a “dynamic website” because the data is being stored in a database and not using flat files.

With a CMS comes more advanced functionality than a flat file website. Some typical features include a news/blogging tool, contact forms, simple file/image uploading, user roles or permissions, photo galleries, etc.

How a Website Content Management System can help

With a Content Management System, you as a client can make updates to your own website without the need to call a “web guy”. Usually we get clients who ask for a CMS because they have finally become tired of their web guy taking way too long to make simple text changes to their website. Another positive is that the cost to maintain your website goes down since you are doing the regular content maintenance. Instead of paying a web guy an hourly fee for updates, you make the updates yourself and they get published immediately. With the right CMS and the proper instruction from your web developer, your CMS should be very simple to use and make updates.

Which Website Content Management System is best?

Each website has unique requirements so not every CMS is right for every project. You first need to analyze your needs and what is most important for your website. With those requirements, a web developer should be able to select the proper solution for you. In our experience, we have found the open source community to be a great fit for most of our clients. When certain website requirements are very specific to a client’s needs, we will implement a custom solution. However, we have found that WordPress seems to be the one solution we come back to time and time again. I’ll be adding another blog post in the near future about our experiences with WordPress and why we always seem to choose it as the best solution for our clients.

So do you need a Website Content Management System?

Here is what we always ask our prospective clients when they ask us about a CMS:

• Are you planning on making updates more than once a month?
• Do you ever have time sensitive updates that require immediate publishing?
• Are you comfortable paying more upfront but saving money on hourly updates over time?

If you answer “yes” to any of these questions, than a CMS might be a great fit for you. If you only have a small, brochure type website with content that changes on a very infrequent basis then the additional cost to setup a CMS may not really be warranted.

Source: Derek Ashauer, AshWebStudio

Here is a great explanation as well from www.creativemediaweb.com

Search Engine Optimization 101

When you are either creating a website or developing an existing website, you are trying to make the best content as possible. For it is in the contents that drives traffic into your site. The contents of your site is the primary factor for a successful search engine marketing.There are several ways on how to drive traffic to your site. And there are factors as well to consider.

Search Engine Optimization is the process of which the volume and quality of traffic of a particular website is improving through search results from most popular search engines. Search engine optimization includes not only editing the contents of your website but editing also the HTML coding to boost its relevance to specific keywords.