http://www.seven1group.com Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:18:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_348" align="alignright" width="210" caption="The Flash may not be a hero for your website."][/caption] With all the talk about SEO, PPC, Twitter, Flash and other web technologies, sometimes we overlook what is *really* important in a website.  Don't forget the fundamentals!  Here is a quick list of things you should do ... http://www.seven1group.com/346/website-design/some-basic-website-fundamentals If you have a website, you should also have a Flickr account.  Flickr is a fantasic social networking site for uploading and sharing pictures.  It also provides some great website building tools.  Here is my quick list of how you can use Flickr on your company website: 1. Host all those ... http://www.seven1group.com/319/uncategorized/using-flickr-in-your-website How do you like the new website design? We managed to squeeze in a quick redesign of our site - this is our first real custom design project.  Mostly we have been doing slightly modified free Wordpress templates.  With the new Seven1 site, we finally got let our imagination go to ... http://www.seven1group.com/316/website-design/our-new-website-design My partner Jodi and I had a great meeting with BRANDSWAG yesterday. It seems there might be some web development opportunites there - we'll see. BRANDSWAG provides several important services to its customers.  A big part of what they do is using social networking to build your client base.  Facebook, Twitter, ... http://www.seven1group.com/145/website-design/get-your-brand-right One of the great pleasures of my job as a web developer is helping out the small businesses of Indiana.  I'm a born-and-bred Hoosier and grew up in southern Indiana.  My father was an Indiana business owner - he owned a restaurant near Martinsville for years (The Waverly Inn - "the ... http://www.seven1group.com/142/website-design/website-design-for-indiana-small-businesses We did it! Our first high profile web development project has been rolled out: the new site for the Indy Blue Crew. [caption id="attachment_139" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="The ultimate NFL Colts Fan community!"][/caption] The Indy Blue Crew is the fan club for the NFL Indianapolis Colts.  They wanted a sharp looking site that really ... http://www.seven1group.com/138/website-design/new-site-for-the-indy-blue-crew Wow - the Seven1 Team and I have been very busy on a few new software releases.  I haven't posted anything in quite some time. Real quick - let me tell you that we have been lucky enough to work on a brand new website for the Indy Blue Crew - ... http://www.seven1group.com/132/website-design/new-projects-on-the-horizon Many of the potential clients that we have talked with are small businesses or non-profit entities. We have found that they mostly want the same thing: affordable web design. If you are a small business owner, you may have approached several different web design companies for price quotes and come away ... http://www.seven1group.com/115/website-design/affordable-web-design A couple of months ago, as my partners and I were in the middle stages of forming our company, a very good business opportunity came our way.  We found ourselves in the unusual position of pitching our web design services before we even had a web site ourselves.  Needless to ... http://www.seven1group.com/17/search-engine-optimization/our-seo-baseline It started with many a lunch and dinner meeting, and many months later we are ready to take our show on the road.  The Seven1 Group will have its "grand opening" soon. For a new company, it is important to draw up a marketing campaign to get your name out on ... http://www.seven1group.com/15/search-engine-optimization/getting-started