Images & Copyrights: What’s legal?
This is a topic that people often overlook when designing a website, brochure, business card, or any other type of marketing piece. When in fact, how you use an image you’ve “found online” could be the one thing that lands you in the hottest legal water you might ever dip your big toe in. Many [...]
Website Planning: Unrealistic Expectations
When planning a website, you might not know which expectations you’re setting for your website are realistic or not. If you’re not super web savvy, it’s always good to hire a web consultant to help you map out your “plan of attack” to ensure you’re getting the results you’d like to see come from your [...]
Setting Up a New Site: 301 Redirects
Building a new website to replace your old one? Do you have links on your old website that are indexed by the search engines and bringing you significant traffic? What can you do to prevent losing that traffic once you launch the new website? The answer is called a “301 redirect“. A 301 redirect is [...]
What is SEO?
SEO, or search engine optimization, is often thought of as an enigma. The overall concept is really quite simple when you look at it in comparison to owning a brick and mortar store versus an online store. Let’s say you own a brick and mortar store that sells tennis shoes. How is everyone going to [...]
Social Media: Is it for me?
We now live in a world that is inundated with “everyone knowing everyone else’s business”. There’s definitely some pros and cons to this on a personal level, but on a professional level, this could mean big bucks for your business. But how do you use social media to your benefit? Well, for one, most of [...]
GnomeMedia Specializes in Agricultural Websites
The business of agriculture holds a special place in the hearts of those here at GnomeMedia. I myself, the owner of GnomeMedia, Amanda Nuckolls, is the proud owner of a llama that is boarded at a nearby farm. Because of the close connection I have to the agriculture biz, I have an understanding of what [...]
Importance of Updating Your Copyright Date
Do you have a copyright date at the bottom of your website? Is it up to date? It’s something small, but people pay attention to it, especially if you have an online retail shop. With the downturn in the economy, this small piece of information is getting increased exposure by visitors to your website. They [...]
Domain Names: Is owning just one enough?
This question is one that gets asked a lot of GnomeMedia. And sometimes, not enough… Say you own a domain name that is for your own personal website. For example, www.AmandaNuckolls.com. Given that this spelling is an unusual way to spell “knuckles”, I always recommend purchasing the common misspelling as well (www.AmandaKnuckles.com) because you never [...]
Site Maps: What are they? Why do I need one?
What is a site map? A site map is a page on a website that acts similar to an index you find in the front of a book. The site map will show you exactly what pages are contained within any given website. Why do I need a site map? Site map’s are important if [...]
Thinking of building a website? READ THIS!
There are many people that refuse to think about marketing while in the planning stages of their website. I have encountered my fair share of those types of people and it always astounds me what their reasoning, and/or lack of reasoning, is for doing this. I’ve always thought of it this way:You wouldn’t build a [...]
