To Web Designers: Listen Up!


The great majority of websites that we get here at Eckweb are sites that have already been built and have already been online.  A great majority of those site owners claim that their web designer told them they know how to market their sites. I have no way of knowing if this is actually true [...]

Creating Websites That Work


It’s true that many website designers are not SEO webmasters and vice versa.  I never call myself a website designer.  Although I know how to take websites apart and put them back together.  Those skills do not make me a designer. But, if you’re a website designer, there is no reason why you shouldn’t, or [...]

Websites Are Not Billboards


For all you web designers and programmers and webmasters out there – how many of your clients work with you during the web building process and then once it’s over, that’s it – you never hear from them again? Yep, even if they’re “marketing” their websites? For all you website owners out there who are [...]

SEO and Website Aesthetics


I make it a point to put on my contract a statement about the fact that the website MAY be altered, aesthetically speaking, in the process of it’s optimization.  I ask the client to initial that they read that statement. Yet (you know it’s coming!) I still get phone calls and emails AFTER I’ve worked [...]