At Untraditional Media, we support open source internet software and discourage our clients from using proprietary software packages for their web sites. Our experience has been that one way some web site developers railroad you into using their company for support and hosting is by building your web site on a proprietary system that costs [...]
Apple Devices Don’t Support Flash
May 25, 2010 By
UMPS doesn’t recommend using Adobe Flash as part of your web site development, and a recent decision by Apple to not support Flash on iPods, iPhones, and iPads makes that recommendation even stronger.
Zen and The Art of Web Site Maintenance
January 29, 2010 By
In Robert M. Pirsig’s 1974 novel “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”, the author explores the meaning and concepts of “Quality”. In the book, the Narrator contrasts the approach to life of his friend who refuses to learn how to maintain his own expensive new BMW motorcycle and hopes for the best, and his [...]
Using Social Media For Small Business
November 4, 2009 By
Using Social Media as part of your marketing strategy is all the rage. People are pell-mell signing up for Facebook and Twitter and sticking widgets and apps into their web site, but are those things working if you’re using them? And if you’re not using them how do you go about starting to and getting [...]
Royalty Free Public Domain Images For Your Web Site
October 13, 2009 By
One question many of our clients ask is where they can find a good source for royalty free, public domain images they can use in their blog or web site. While there are tons of great stock photo sites out there you can Google, one great source is often overlooked: Government web sites.
WordPress As A Content Management System
October 8, 2009 By
One of the things we recommend to all of our clients is to have their web site built on a content management system (CMS) that allows them to post, edit, and manage their own web site content, without having to rely on their web design firm or “web guru guy” to make changes (and bill [...]
How Search Engines See Your Web Design
October 5, 2009 By
Sure, it’s beautiful to the eye, but how do search engines see your web site? Search engines spiders are designed to see your site in a way that rates the usability and relevance of your site compared to similar sites, relative to the specific search terms entered. A lot of the functionality and usability of [...]
Treasure Coast Web Site Designs
September 28, 2009 By
See our work in action! When you select a web design firm you should be able to look at existing sites they have constructed as a reference. Not just screen grabs on their site, but sites you can click thru to and read through that are live. Check out some of our site designs for [...]
RSS Feeds – News You Can Use
September 28, 2009 By
Regular new content on your site is crucial to developing both traffic and good search engine rankings. Search engine spiders will notice that the content changes regularly and subsequently return more often. That’s crucial, because many search results give preference to more recent content, your site will be comprehensive indexed regularly making sure your latest [...]
Free Press Release Services For Links
September 25, 2008 By
One of the factors search engines employ to rank your pages is the number and quality of sites that link to you. Sending out an electronic press release distribution is a cheap and effective way to help increase the number of sites linking to you.