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August Ash Blog
Feb 21, 2011
The great thing about a well-designed website is that it can breathe new life into your web presence, and by extension, into your whole business.
The nature of the Internet, though, means that no website stays great for more than a few years, tops. Some of the site’s original luster and...
Jan 21, 2011
Magento is big. Very big.
And not just in terms of its capabilities. Businesses and non-profits around the world have awoken to the power, flexibility, and affordability of this open source tool for ecommerce. That means there’s a worldwide—and sometimes, urgent—need for reliable,...
Dec 20, 2010
If you have a brick and mortar store and have claimed your business in Google Places, you're all set for being found locally in online search engines, right? Wrong! Advertising in the Yellow Pages and other local print sources is old news and snapping up your business name on Google then...
Nov 1, 2010
At August Ash, we typically use one of three specific web platforms to create our websites; Magento, Drupal, or WordPress. While some websites do not fit into these platforms and require complete custom work, the majority of our clients are...
Aug 24, 2010
The community of Drupal developers is constantly working to improve the Drupal platform. The first major update of these improvements in a couple years is Drupal 7, which will most likely be released in the next couple of months. (The core Drupal development team prefers to not set a release...
Aug 17, 2010
Creating a website with a content management system in today’s web world is almost a necessity. In the web of yesteryear, we used to make sites like we make brochures; if we need to include some new information, we open up the file and change it and then upload it to the website. Content...
Aug 6, 2010
Keywords play a large role in optimizing a website and often there is confusion surrounding exactly what they are and how they work.
Plain and simple keywords are the words that people are typing into the search engines. So if you can show the search...
Jul 30, 2010
Almost everyone in your organization has something valuable to add to this discussion. Why not ask them which keyword they think customers are searching for?
For example, start with your office manager, or whoever answers the phones for your company. That person is usually...
Jul 23, 2010
Summer’s Here! Are you targeting seasonal keywords for a solid PPC campaign?
When taking advantage of search engine optimization and Pay Per Click (PPC) to increase your traffic and profits, the...
Jul 13, 2010
These days you’re in the minority if you haven’t heard of Twitter, but actually using Twitter might be something entirely new for you. So this will be dedicated to all those people who are new to using Twitter.
As a brief overview, Twitter is sometimes also referred to as a micro-blog....