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How to distinguish your site
How do you distinguish your site from a competitor selling the same service with the same components? The answer is not design alone. Your competitor has a domain, hosting and pages exactly like yours. The difference lands in six points, and every one of them is measurable rather than a matter of taste. This guide […]
Website components
Website components come down to five parts, and without any one of them the site does not open at all. Most people ordering a site for the first time assume it is all design, then meet line items in a quote they cannot place: domain, hosting, SSL certificate, control panel. This is written for people […]
How to benefit from your website
How you benefit from your site is a question that usually gets asked after the site is finished, and that is the root of the problem. A site built before anyone defined the return it should produce comes out looking good and then sits there. This guide flips the order. You will get six ways […]
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