Websites

How-To Create A Successful Website And Help Your Clients

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What Is ImportantIntroduction: What is Important

YVOD’s approach to building websites is 100% client focused. Many businesses want to tell their own story. They spend a lot of time talking about their approach to solving problems and why they are so fantastic. While this is very good to know, it is of little importance on the web. A successful website must deliver what the visitor wants to see.

Who Are Your ClientsStep 1: Who Are Your Clients

YVOD likes to start the conversation by asking owners of websites to think about who is going to visit their site. We try to develop at least 3 “personae” of potential visitors. These personae may describe existing online visitors, desired visitors or existing offline clients that you wish to convert to online customers. What is important is to think deeply about who these visitors are.

User Personas – Questions Seeking Answers

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On the road to creating user personas, YVOD likes to ask a number of questions about your visitors. Below is a small sample of questions that should be answered for each persona. Life Related: How old are they? What proportion are female vs. male? What is their level of education? Where do they live (state)? … Read more

Turn JavaScript On

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Re: When I tried to open a web page on the Department of Labor and Industries site to fill out and submit a form and I got an error saying that I needed to be able to script or have scripting on?  Can you tell me how to fix this? Welcome to the world of … Read more

I am in love with AT&T again

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How To Avoid A $3000 International iPhone Data Bill Oh happy day!!! I got my $1200 data bill reduced to $75 =) Yippeeeee!!! They changed my billing from the $5/month (no data included) international roaming plan to the $25/month one that includes 20MB of data transfer. (Overages are 0.005/KB.) Granted, I did have to sign … Read more

michaelromanowski.com is now live!

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Michael was in a bit of a pickle. While he owned michaelromanowski.com he did not actually have a website. For the past two years he had a simple “Site Under Construction” page that had not changed. I met Michael and Jacqui Naylor for drinks one night and the conversation turned to how many website leads … Read more

Upgrade WordPress

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I just found this very useful link on the wordpress.org website!! If you have shell access, you can get a copy of the latest stable build of WordPress in two easy steps. Now how cool is that? =) 1) wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz 2) tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz “The WordPress package will extract into a folder called wordpress … Read more