http://www.alpinewebmedia.com/blog Web design and other tips from Alpine Web Media, LLC of Vermont Sun, 09 Nov 2008 15:20:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Everyone wants there website to come up in position #1 on the first page of Google results. Is this a realistic expectation? Yes and no. For the most part, depending on what the subject of your website is, you may have a tough time competing with already established websites to obtain ... http://www.alpinewebmedia.com/blog/2008/11/search-engine-friendly-websites/ These days, everyone is trying to cut back and save money. If your website is the backbone of your business though, one thing you really can't afford is "cheap web hosting". You can find plenty of ads all over the web advertising cheap, inexpensive and even free web hosting but ... http://www.alpinewebmedia.com/blog/2008/11/cheap-web-hosting/ We've been in the website design business for 13 years now and boy, have things changed a lot since the early days! Back in the mid-1990's, a new website could be built using a text editor and simple HTML and enjoy placement within Yahoo (the big search engine back in ... http://www.alpinewebmedia.com/blog/2008/08/got-vermont-web-design-web-hosting/ One of the first things you should do when planning your website is to do a bit of research. Analyzing keywords and putting together a strategic marketing plan is a crucial first step towards the construction of a search engine friendly website. SEO (or search engine optimization) is not all ... http://www.alpinewebmedia.com/blog/2008/08/free-seo-search-engine-optimization-tools/ People often confuse web design with graphic design and mistakenly think the two are the same. Actually, there is a very big difference in terms of how the work is created. A graphic designer is most familiar with print media design. Magazines, books, brochures, signs and so forth. When they ... http://www.alpinewebmedia.com/blog/2008/08/why-graphic-design-is-not-web-design/ One of the most common situations I encounter with people uploading images to their websites is that they do not know how to optimize their images. With digital cameras these days, it's easy to plug into the USB port and transfer files over to your computer, quickly and easily. The problem ... http://www.alpinewebmedia.com/blog/2008/08/free-web-graphic-editors-for-your-web-photos-images/ One of the most frequent problems I have encountered as a web professional concerns the ownership of domain names (www.yourname.com). In most cases, everyone naturally assumes that they own the domain because someone else such as a web design agency, friend or employee registered it on their behalf. That's where trouble ... http://www.alpinewebmedia.com/blog/2008/08/who-really-owns-your-domain-name/ The infomercials and other ads make it look so very easy to build your own website. These are also the same marketing people who tell you how easy it is to remodel your kitchen yourself, etc. Truth be told, anyone can do just about anything if they have the interest ... http://www.alpinewebmedia.com/blog/2008/08/do-it-yourself-websites/ The Flip Mino is a tiny little camcorder that is about the same size as a cell phone. I picked one up for creating YouTube videos and I have to say it works quite well. The video quality is better than I expected and the Flip Mino can hold an ... http://www.alpinewebmedia.com/blog/2008/08/flip-mino/