Why hire local?

A second use of websites is for multi-media presentations such as Flash, video, Visio presentations, photo galleries, Word and Excel documents, Power Point presentations, Adobe Breeze and much more.

You can easily embed these multi-media rich applications right into your website with minimal code. Some of them even have special export functions that allow you to export the presentation and then all you have to do is copy and paste right into your HTML. Take YouTube for example – if you find a video you like, they provide you with the HTML code necessary to embed that video right into your blog or web  page.

Another big advantage of this ability is accessibility – since the web is on 24 hours a day available all over the world, your clients don’t have to be at your office to make a presentation. Software packages such as WebEx now allow you to have a virtual meetings over the next using web cams and microphones.

So what good is a website anyway? Why is it so important?

A good website will increase your presence on the web and drive traffic to your business, eventually increasing your exposure to the world and hopefully giving you more opportunities to make money. More and more people are using the internet these days to find work, services, goods and products. A website is on 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and can provide your end users with a wealth of information about you and your business. Plus, you can reach an audience outside your city limits – a website is visible anywhere there is internet, meaning you can live in Wilmington and have clients in Costa Rica!

More good uses of a website coming soon….

I added a wiki page on AboutUs.org.

check it out:

http://www.aboutus.org/Impulse_Web_Solutions

I have added a new page to the website that contains some of the most common terms used in the web design and development industry.

Some of these terms include web design, SEO, HTML, CSS, etc.

Check out the new page: Common web terms and their definitions.

Here is a great article from Susan Greene on writing home page copy.

Because the home page is the first page most of your visitors will see, it’s also the most important page. Its purpose is to grab the readers’ attention and help them find information quickly and easily. If your home page lacks facts or is confusing, your visitors will click off before they ever gets a chance to know you. Here are some tips for ensuring your home page is effective:

Visit Susan’s web site here: http://www.susangreenecopywriter.com

Check out our new Squidoo account at http://www.squidoo.com/wilmington-nc-web-design.

Not sure yet how we are going to use this tool but I just wanted to try it out.

Creative Tomorrow provides web designers, programmers, graphic artists and marketers a place to look for jobs, post jobs, post your resume and post a portfolio – all for FREE!

Link: creative tomorrow website

Look no further – FEED MY APP provides a variety of links to websites that provide 2.0 services. The sites are broken down into categories such as:

AUDIOBLOG
BOOKMARKING
BUSINESS
CHAT
CMS
COLLABORATION
CRM
DESIGN
DIRECTORY
EMAIL
EVENT
FINANCE
FOOD
FRAMEWORK
GAME
HEALTH
JOB
KNOWLEDGE
LOCAL
MANAGEMENT
MAPS
MARKETING
MOBILE
NETWORKING
NEWS
ORGANIZE
PET
PHILANTHROPY
PHOTO
PRODUCTIVITY
PROJECT
REAL-ESTATE
RSS
SCRIPT
SEARCH
SHARE
SOCIAL
START-PAGE
STATS
STORAGE
TOOLS
TRAVEL
VIDEO
WEB-OS

We recently helped a local business implement a creative web solution by putting a Visio diagram presentation online.

The presentation is hosted with a 3rd party hosting company using an ip address only (this way they don’t have to buy a domain name).

The presentation is password protected and is only accessible by those with the correct permissions (username and password).

The presentation can be viewed anywhere a client or employee has internet access.

Does this sound like you? Do you need help doing this? If so, let us know we can help – 910.538.6731.

Or feel free to use our contact form.