On Saturday, February 13th, Sitepro was the proud host to the first ever Chippewa Valley Ruby Camp. Developers from all over the Chippewa Valley and even into Minnesota were in attendance.
Yes, I like consonance.
In this entry I would like to share my thoughts regarding the value I perceive in entering dynamic site data through a paired CMS within the vacuum of a development environment. While its fast and easy to simply switch a datasource to existing sample content, the avoidance of doing any content grunt work also has a price.
Driving Directions, powered by Google Maps, are a great way to add an inexpensive feature to your website that allows your users to find you from virtually anywhere in the world.
Wouldn’t you like to know what visitors to your site are thinking? Certainly an unhappy or pleased visitor could email you through your capture form, but I’ve discovered a better way. One of my clients turned me on to a new program; it’s great for all flavors of sites, but extraordinarily important for ecommerce sites.
So you’re going to hire your own team to build your business website. But wait – is that really the cost effective way to do it? At the very least you’ll need a web designer and developer and probably a technical writer if you aren’t skilled in writing. And do you know how to best optimize your page in the search engines?
