Written by Bill Ray Monday, 10 January 2011 07:02
Nowadays everyone has a web presence. Be it through Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Youtube or any combination thereof. It seems that the general level of "web savvy" has increased, yeah?
Actually, programmers have spent hundreds if not thousands of hours creating the php, CSS, xhtml, Ajax calls, and styling to make it feel like the end user "really has a grasp on the internet" "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain".
Written by Bill Ray Sunday, 02 January 2011 05:34
It's a new year and "this one goes to 11" haha! We at Oceansites want to wish you the best for the coming year and all that it holds.
And you know, along with the new year, maybe it's time to get your website together and fix all the little snarky things that have been bothering you. Maybe it's just time to make a new site altogether. Whatever the case may be, we'd love to talk to you!
Written by Bill Ray Friday, 31 December 2010 18:51
Who here remembers MySpace? (raise your hand) Well obviously too many musicians seem to be stuck in that vacuum of time from the "double ont" (00) era. MySpace, depending upon your perspective either helped the music business or drove yet another nail in the coffin of music MAKING.
I've been a professional musician my entire working life; There's not much I have not seen or done in the realm of playing music. Play in front of 80,000 people? Check. Met and hung out with major rockstars? Check. Played all the world's finest music festivals? Yep, been there, done that.
So it drives me crazy to hear an otherwise "good band" and to find out their only interface to the "outside world" is through that portal known as MySpace. My respect just goes out the window.
Written by Bill Ray Thursday, 30 December 2010 08:00
"SEO"...a big buzz word on the scene today, it would seem. Search Engine Optimization starts with very basic principles- relevant content! If your site contains relevant content, chances are you'll be found! Wouldn't you think?
Well it's not so easy anymore. In highly active "vertical markets" such as Real Estate and Online Sales there will be someone who is hiring bloggers, tweeting every 10 seconds, updating their status on the internet 100 times a day and somehow, THEY get to the top of the stack! Frustrates the crap out of you huh?
Written by Bill Ray Thursday, 30 December 2010 07:23
Ok, so it's going to be the new year in a few days and you are probably wondering aloud "OK I'm at this website design page and I wouldn't know where to even begin". Well we are going to make it FUN to get this stuff in order.
Read more: 5 Minute Challenge- Get Your New Website Together!
Written by Bill Ray Tuesday, 28 December 2010 06:18
This is a prime example of how to not let someone inexperienced run your online presence. The results can be treacherous!
Read more: Some people will literally use a crowbar to kill a fly.
Written by Bill Ray Tuesday, 28 December 2010 03:42
Whatever you do in your career, it's for certain that you have spent hours upon hours perfecting a skill. You've trained yourself to complete a task from front to back, up and down and all points in between.
Written by Bill Ray Friday, 08 January 2010 10:06
There's a concept called "The Quality Triangle". It dictates the following:
You are given the options of Fast, Good and Cheap, and told to pick any two. Here Fast refers to the time required to deliver the product, Good is the quality of the final product, and Cheap refers to the total cost of designing and building the product. This triangle reflects the fact that the three properties of a project are interrelated, and it is not possible to optimise all three – one will always suffer. In other words you have three options:
In other words...consider the dynamics of what you wish the end result to be. Oceansites Web Design understands this balance and have extensive experience in getting your project completed within whatever parameters you have at hand.