Google

29
January
2010

Google Browser Size: What Your Users See

Google Browser Size: What Your Users See

A big challenge in web design/usability is understanding that visitors have different screen sizes and most screens are smaller than you would think. This can be particularly difficult convincing clients, website owners, and graphic designers with large monitors the rest of the world does not have 24 inch widescreen monitors.

27
August
2009

Rich Snippets, jReviews and Google

Rich Snippets, jReviews and Google

In May of 2009, Google announced the inclusion of Rich Shippets in their result pages.  You may have seen stars displaying in the Google search results, these stars are due to the addition of microformatting code to the page.

Since learning about this cool new feature I (along with several others in the jReview forums) have been adding this code to our review sites.

17
August
2009

Google Webmaster Tools

Google Webmaster Tools

If you have not tried out Google Webmater tools. You should. They are that helpful.

Google has created these tools to help you see how google sees your site.  You could uncovers some big problems with simple fixes.

These tools allow you to see what search results you pages are appearing on, what pages are indexed, submit sitemaps, and many more.

15
July
2009

Importance of Great Domain Names

Importance of Great Domain Names

The domain name has more to do with the success of a site than you would initially think. 

When you are searching for information, do you ever look at the domain name?  I do, I am checking it for relevancy.   If the site is neededinfo.com.  This name has much more creditability than my-needed-info.biz or some variation. 

05
April
2008

Google Analytics: UTM Link Tagging Explained

Google Analytics: UTM Link Tagging Explained

A customer of Intown Web Design developed an offline postcard campaign.   The postcard campaign centered around their revolutionary new product.  The postcard instructed them to visit a website about the new product. However, this website was not complete.  To provide the best customer experience we created a 301 redirect to the existing product page on the company's main website.