Website Development, Website Design, Website Hosting, eCommerce and Search Engine Optimization in Bigfork, Montana
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A blog is short for web log. It is a type of website or part of a website frequently updated with commentaries, news & events, educational material, videos and more. Readers can comment on posts and discuss post topics with other readers.
Having, and more importantly maintaining a blog, is an inexpensive marketing tool that has 3 major benefits: (more…)
The web is based around links. Links that open doors to different pages in your website and links that open up your site to other sites. If you want users to follow the links on your site, you have to make them feel safe and confident in clicking the link. Let them know what to expect when they click on it.
The text used in a link is very important for usability, accessibility and search engine optimization. Link text should be descriptive, clear and concise. (more…)
If you decide that you want to host your website somewhere else, move your domain name to a different registrar, or take your current site to a new design company, can you? Does your current web design company or tech firm help you to do that?
Many web design and development companies force you to host with them by controlling your domain. Often clients who try to leave a company are not able to obtain physical files of their website or their data from their service provider. This prevents clients from switching their web hosting or taking their site to other developers. It prevents you from ultimately having true control and ownership of your online property! Sometimes when these unscrupulous companies go out of business, domains and site files are lost forever. (more…)
A domain name is your web address, such as www.bigforkweb.com. It will be attached to all of your brochures, business cards, postcards and any other marketing materials for your company. Your domain name is an important part of your company branding and is often the first impression of your website. (more…)
A question that often arises for small companies investing in a website is: why should I hire a professional web design company when I can get my sister’s, mother-in-law’s, friend’s kid who dabbles in html to create one for me for $200?
Just as you know your company better than your sister’s, mother-in-law’s, friend’s kid who dabbles in your field, so do professional web design companies. There is an abundance of constantly evolving knowledge and skill that goes into every step of creating a website. A professional company will have a team of specialists who devote their lives to the web and more importantly have the experience to know what will work best for your website.
Thank you Flathead Valley! We dropped off 2 cars full of donations to the Kalispell Salvation Army this morning! There will be 175 families coming to shop for their children on Monday and Tuesday.
Dictionary. com defines joy as the emotion of great delight and appreciation in someone or something. The Flathead Valley has more than lived up to the Toy ‘N Joy definition. Your true generosity has warmed our hearts and will bring an abundance of joy to local children and relief to their parents this holiday season. We deeply appreciate you and your part in making our small community the shining gem of joy that we love to call home.
Happy holidays to you and yours.
Toy 'N Joy Shop
Toy 'N Joy Shop
A client with a new website recently contacted me with a question that frequently confuses many. When she typed her company search terms in Google, her business not only showed up in the natural listings, it also showed at the top of the page, with other like businesses in the Bigfork area, next to a map. Unfortunately, the information displayed when she clicked on that listing was incorrect.
This is a common question, and easy to fix. In fact, as a business owner you should check this yourself and see if your business info is correct!
Writing for the web is different than writing for print. Web users are in a hurry and prefer to scan pages and digest smaller amounts of information.
I was just listening to Jean Chatzky on Oprah radio (XM Radio), all ready for some daily financial advice. Today’s show was about starting your own business. She had 2 entrepreneurs who recently started their own businesses after being laid off, and Network Solutions CEO, Roy Dunbar, discussing the importance of a website with a new business.
Obviously this grabbed my attention! Heck yea a website is important! So I closed what I was working on and ignored my Project Manager who was lost somewhere in Twitter and needed my help (I swear we do work around here ) and I turned up the radio. (more…)
“Beating the Recession by Giving Back”
BigforkWEB builds sites and serves the community
By Elizabeth Harrison
Read the original article from the Flathead Beacon, 06-24-09
BIGFORK – In 2003, Mike Callaghan walked into the Bigfork Chamber of Commerce and set the tone for his start-up Web development company.
Now a thriving business with seven employees and more than 350 clients, BigforkWEB Development owes some of its early success to Callaghan’s dedication to community involvement.
“I think it’s important to give back – this company’s been very fortunate,” he said.
Whether it’s attending local Rotary Club meetings, decorating downtown Bigfork for the holidays or picking up trash along Highway 35, all of BigforkWEB’s employees are involved in the Flathead Valley community outside of work.
“It’s good for people and good for business,” Andrea Goff, vice president of operations and a member of the Rotary Club of Bigfork, said.
After growing up in New England and studying Geographic Information Science at the University of Colorado – Boulder, Callaghan moved to Jackson, Wyo., and started a computer software company. It was in this small town that he developed his business strategy of engaging the local community. He became a member of the Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce and also owned a small mountain bike shop.
He later followed the dot-com boom of the 1990s to San Francisco, where he worked as a Web site developer for a financial services company for three years.
When the dot-com bubble burst in the early 2000s, he started looking for places to settle down and start a family. Callaghan said he chose Bigfork for its small-town feel – a decision that has paid off. (more…)
