I can feel the stress levels rising as I click around various web sites these days (not just vacation rental sites). I’m almost nervous to move the mouse around, let alone click on some of the links. What’s going on?

Newsletter popups (sign up for my free newsletter) as soon as I arrive at a site
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Google Chrome is taking market share from Internet Explorer and Firefox according to Net Applications’ data for January. It’s worth stopping for a moment to think about what this means to you as a small business website owner. It’s important to make sure your website works, and works well, across all the different browsers that [...]

Upgrading your wordpress blog is usually a doddle these days with the 1-click upgrade button but you may find it’s not quite so easy with the latest major wordpress 2.9 release. I got caught out with this one as I was expecting to get the job done with a few simple clicks…
Lots of people are [...]

One of the most common questions I get from people with small business websites (especially blogs) is “what should I write about?” They know that one of the keys to a successful website is to include lots of high-value content, but struggle to find ideas for new topics. Well, here’s a way to get some [...]

I sat through a deeply technical presentation today and got the chance to experience what it’s like being completely confused by some technology. It didn’t help that the presenter was unable to speak the letter ’s’ and every time the letter appeared in a word she just left a gap!
It set me thinking about the [...]

Have you created your small business website design so that you can easily update it, or, is this a pain to do? Here’s a couple more questions:

Do you have to talk to a web designer before you can add a new page?
Even if you can write code yourself, have you made it easy to create [...]

As you launch into building your own small business website you’re probably faced with a dilemma.
On one hand you need to create a website that’s unique, highlights your key business differences, includes all those functions and pages that you need and hopefully provides an interesting experience for your readers.
On the other hand you probably don’t [...]

It might seem like a strange question. You’ve built your small business website to help promote your business, increase sales and educate your customers, right?
This is a pretty hefty list of things for your website to do. You probably need to be a little less ambitious with your website goals.
Let’s make things a bit easier. [...]