Comments on: Blue Sun Studio’s Best Kept Secret We Don’t Want to Keep A Secret

By: Deb Dorchak

Deb Dorchak — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 01:00:42 +0000

Thanks, Donna!

By: Deb Dorchak

Deb Dorchak — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 01:00:19 +0000

If you can handle the site yourself and you’re happy with it, then stay where you are. What are you using now?

By: Deb Dorchak

Deb Dorchak — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 00:58:56 +0000

SEO is such a broad topic I wouldn’t know where to start. One thing I will say is, leave a final post on your old site telling people where to find you and then after a couple of weeks, put a 301 redirect on the old URL. After a couple of years you can get rid of the old domain if you want to, but until then, hang on to it so links you may have spread out all over the place will go to the new site.

By: Donna Maria Coles Johnson

Donna Maria Coles Johnson — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 19:11:30 +0000

Great summary and what a colorful page! Totally made me smile!

By: Aly Pain

Aly Pain — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 19:09:10 +0000

I seem to be one of the few not on WordPress, and I’m ok with that. My site has so much I can do myself and works just great for now. A new web site is in my sites, along with having mobile functionality.
For many entrepreneurs it’s not only about finding the right provider to create the site, it’s securing the work to pay for it, and make sure the ROI of the new site begins shortly after.
Thanks for the tips of what to look for and why!

By: Kimberly Eldredge

Kimberly Eldredge — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 16:36:41 +0000

I’m in the middle of rolling out a brand new website — on a brand new URL. Any SEO tips for transferring over the new content?

What about redirects?

I’m not even sure the questions to ASK let alone how to research the answers!

By: Deb Dorchak

Deb Dorchak — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 03:05:24 +0000

Thanks, Elaine! Clients definitely love this service, and I have no doubt others will too.

To answer your question, when it comes to building websites there are two ways to do it. One is through HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language). You know how when you go into your WordPress site and you start a new page or post, you have the options of Visual or Text in your editor? If you switch to the Text tab and view the content you have formatted on that page/post you’ll see your content surrounded by tags in brackets wherever you have stuff bolded, italicized or for your various headers. That’s HTML. It’s also what websites used to be built on.

The problem with this is having a website built on that, each page is made individually. It only covers the layout. Combined with CSS (Cascading Style Sheet), it tells the browser where to place everything and it’s usually laid out in a format called tables. So, if you were to strip all the graphics and words from a site, it would look like a bunch of blocks all neatly stacked and arranged in one big box.

PhP (Hypertext Preprocessor) when combined with HTML serves as the engine behind the site. Think of HTML as the chassis and PhP as the motor. It’s a programming language that allows a site to have things like a built in blog to manage your content, or allow for widgets and plugins, generating a brand new page without having to create a new one from scratch all the time, and all the fun stuff we’ve come to take for granted when we put up a theme or install WordPress and have it all appear like magic.

So, chances are if you have a site that was built in HTML, you’d need someone else to make new pages for you or change your content, and you’d have to have a third party CMS (Content Management System, like WordPress) to house your blog.

Does that help?

By: Elaine Wellman

Elaine Wellman — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 02:04:13 +0000

The Passing Through revamp looks great. Sounds like this service is just what many entrepreneurs will need. Deb I recently heard the term php page. What is that exactly?