What do you need? Do you know?

I had a client come to me the other day from another firm that had not finished their website design. It happens from time to time.

At either rate, this client had forwarded all of the emails from the previous firm to me. Now, mind you, the site we are talking about was a simple, four page HTML design. It did have a little (unnecessary I might add) flash but other than that, it was just a basic HTML design.

Over and over again in these emails, the previous firm referred to the project and it’s ‘programming’. That they were currently in the ‘programming’ phase. That there was a design phase, a programming phase, and a few other phases I won’t go into here. Suffice it to say, I found the liberal use of the word a bit ridiculous.

Now, before you send me a million hate emails, YES, coding in HTML is technically programming.

But the communications I saw were a bit more deceptive if you ask me. It was as if they were intent on making this client think that they were working in unknown territory. That they were in some laboratory somewhere, working in uncharted waters and programming something that had never been done before.

It’s good old HTML. Not some new platform they are developing for NASA.

Yes, there’s plenty of programming done when it comes to building software for websites. We do it every day in fact. But let’s be honest with the clients boys and girls. Let’s use the term ‘coding’ for the more simple tasks and save the term programming for the more complex tasks we are often asked to do.

Chuck Crawford
webdesignprogramming.net
559-761-0910

If you are a web mogul, then you don’t need to read this article.

This one is for people that need help finding the right domain name when designing their new website.

Now, first off. Let’s throw out the idea of branding your site for a moment. I know there are a ton of people out there with wonderfully cute domains like hellopooty dot whatever.

Yes, if you have a really great budget, a good advertising firm, and a pocketful of luck, you too might just be sitting on a goldmine. But just in case you’re not, let’s look at finding a domain name for your new website that is going to be beneficial for you in the long run.

Keywords. Use keywords.

What are keywords? Keywords are the words or phrases that people search for in order to find the product or service they are looking for. Everyone on the planet has gone to Google and searched for something. That term you used to find what you are looking for is a keyword. Or a key phrase, if you did a search containing more than one word.

Despite the hype, there are a ton of good keyword and key phrase domains still available to the world. Odds are, if you search long enough and hard enough, you can still find a good domain that is going to be beneficial to your project.

By beneficial, I mean by helping your new website rank well in the search engines once it’s been built. One of the factors involved when the search engines rank web pages for relevance is the domain name. Now, it’s not the only factor, but it is one part of the recipe. An important part.

So use tools that help you find keywords and phrases that are related to your product or service.

How do you find good keywords and key phrases for your website development?

One great tool is the Google Adwords Keyword Tool

There, you can search for terms and phrases and see what the actual search volume is at Google.

Pretty cool huh?

You can even look for similar terms and broaden your search. It will even give similar suggestions for terms with a smaller amount of searches.

I use this tool almost daily.

Give a lot of thought to your domain before jumping right on one. It’s an important part of your overall development, and a factor that you simply should not overlook.

Yup, I swear it’s coming, honest.

LOL.

As I’m sure you know, often there are delays or hitches in development. So it’s kind of cool that we have one of our own in developing the design of the new site.

Bear with us folks. We’ll get her programmed and up and running.

Right now we’re having a few glitches that I just didn’t like. So I sent it back for a few changes. I’d honestly rather the site be a few days late and be correct. I don’t want to put up a website that I don’t approve of.

So keep checking back, we should have it ready in the next day or so.

Thanks for your patience!

In the next few days, our main site, www.webdesignprogramming.net should, I repeat, should, be completed….

We are working diligently to get this site up and running to serve you.

We’ll keep you posted!

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