Have you ever been on a website and gotten a broken link?

Utilize your 404.html page with helpful navigation or a special message.

A website shoots you to a 404.html page. If you haven't set up a page you may see an OOps this link seems to be broken from google. You can set the page to go to your home page or set up a page that says I'm sorry this link is broken. These are the norms and should definitely be the standard for corporate sites.

We on the other hand can have a little jovialty since we're creative beings.

Ours is: http://www.elizabethgleason.com/404.html

Check yours out and see what happens. If you have a plain google error page give us a call and we'll spruce up your 404 page.

We now offer a content management system for our websites. Whether you have a new design or want to convert a design to a content management system give us a call and we'll be happy to quote you. A content management system is software that keeps track of your web site. A major advantage of using a CMS is that it requires almost no technical skill or knowledge to manage. Since the CMS manages all your content, you don't have to. It allows you to add new pages yourself. 

Our content management systems includes: Social Networking aspects, search functions and simple point and click system.

Perfect for:

• Corporate Web sites or portals 
• Corporate intranets and extranets 
• Online magazines, newspapers, and publications 
• E-commerce and online reservations 
• Government applications 
• Small business Web sites 
• Non-profit and organizational Web sites 
• Community-based portals School and church 
• Web sites Personal or family homepages 

We suggest you get out there and start some online advertising. Banner ads are relatively easy to produce. Go surfing to relative sites and see how much they charge for placement of a web banner. I prefer these over traditional print advertisements for two reasons.

• Number 1: Cost effective The printing cost is eliminated which means you're really just paying for the advertisement itself and well of course the design charge. But the thing is you can check to see how much traffic the site is getting before you commit.
  
• Number 2: Worth Many times in a print advertisement you may not know exactly how many leads you receive from an advertisement. But with a web advertisement you can pin point it pretty close with google web analytics (or whatever statistics you have). Check your referring traffic and see exactly where your hits come from. If you want to get very finicky with your web traffic analysis you can set up a page on your site which you drive that campaign too. That way you can count how many times that page gets hit. Voila... divide the number of hits by the cost of the ad and you're on you way.

When preparing for a new design you should assemble the following files for your web designer.

• Corporate style guide for printed or electronic materials
• Names of typefaces
• Pantone, CMYK or RGB preferred colors
• Logo in digital format (vector format or high resolution raster)
• Photographs of desired or suggested material i.e. key personnel, products, locations, events, community service, projects
• Samples of all print materials i.e. flyers, brochures, ads
• Audio and video clips i.e. advertisements or promotional materials
• Digital or multimedia materials i.e. promotional cds or dvds
• Samples of newspaper or magazine article or advertisements
• Accreditation seals and membership logos
• Maps to location
• Written permission to use any copyrighted materials
• A list of potential domain names you want to register

If your interested in a quotation, please fill out our form,

Interested in working in the cloud?

So if you don't know what the cloud is.... Watch this video from google on their service. We may send you files once and awhile for copy or spreadsheets. It's so much easier to keep track of one document versus numerous email versions.