Businesses across various sectors recognize the value of content marketing in engaging with their audience, building brand awareness and driving sales, leading to more substantial investments in content marketing strategies and tools. This trend reflects the industry’s evolving role as a central component of digital marketing and its substantial contribution to the global marketing economy…(Read on…)
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Making a website accessible means building a platform that maximum people can share and find reliable. That’s why WordPress Accessibility is so crucial.
More than 45.8% of websites across the globe will be powered by WordPress in 2023. The figure was 43.2% in 2022. Whether you want to create a simple or complex website for your business, WordPress can create the most trusted, versatile and user-friendly platform for your business goals… (Read on…)
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In this article, you are going to discover over 100 simple ways to increase organic traffic to your website or web property that you can implement today.
We’ve complied this list based on many years of online marketing experience and offer the to you to explore and use. While this list is extensive, many of the items may require more research on your behalf or the assistance of a marketing professional. (Read on…)
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Frustrated with your Website? Fails with D.I.Y. site builders? HERE’S THE ANSWER!
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Here’s The Thing: You Should Spend Your Time On Your Business, Not Struggling To Learn Web Design! (Read on…)
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Small business websites must have an eye-catching design and compelling copy to make a positive first impression on visitors. Small business owners may not have the budget, skills or resources to make a website that stands out. With the right tips and tricks, however, you’ll be on your way to building stunning landing pages that make people stop and stare.
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THANK YOU! to the readers and good folk at La Jolla Village News for Brass Ring Multimedia’s FOURTH (2014, 2015, 2016 & 2017) Reader’s Choice Award for Best Web Design. It’s a great honor to be recognized by my home town’s newspaper for my work with small businesses in and around La Jolla. I grew up here and have raised my daughter in the beautiful town of La Jolla. La Jolla gets into your heart. I love that it remains my home as well as business home base. Getting to provide my services to clients here and throughout Southern California
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by Mark Maunder On approximately January 31st of 2017, version 56 of the Chrome web browser will be released. There is a significant change in the way it displays websites that are not using HTTPS, also known as SSL. This change may confuse your site visitors or surprise you if you are not expecting it. Starting with the release of Chrome 56 this month, any website that is not running HTTPS will have a message appear in the location bar that says “Not Secure” on pages that collect passwords or credit cards. It will look like this: This is the
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By Larry Alton As always, the world of Web design is moving quickly, and as always, it’s in your best interest to stay ahead of the curve. An increase in mobile technology usage, the emergence of VR systems, new features in common social apps and different user expectations in website offerings are just a handful of trends and news topics inspiring the development of these Web design crazes. Whether you’re well-versed in their origin points or completely disinterested in the volatile shifts of the tech world, user expectations for your site are going to grow regardless. Keep watch for these
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by Eric Siu Five years ago, there weren’t that many options when it came to domain name extensions. You could only register a domain with a .com, .org or .net extension — and good luck if the name you wanted was already in use! More recently, however, domain name registry companies have expanded the list of options, thanks to the growing demand for URLs. Read the entire article on Entrepreneur’s website You now have dozens of other options for top-level domains, including .car, .business, and .app. And while it may be tempting to consider investing in one of these extensions
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One of the coolest project’s you’ll come across this year has just been announced. Brass Ring Multimedia WordPress client Wave Loch, who represent the “bleeding edge” of surfing wave technology have revealed their involvement in an exciting new project called “The Wave” in Bristol, UK. Surfers of the world…pay attention…what this means is that you can add farmland in Britain (what?!) to your list of must-visit world-class surf spots. Incredible? Yes…yet no less can be expected from a company founded by surf industry legend Tom Lochtefeld from my hometown of La Jolla who has consistently led the charge and continually pushed the
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The Definitive Guide To Higher Rankings For WordPress Sites By Joost de Valk — Last update September 8th, 2014 WordPress is one of the best, if not the best content management systems when it comes to SEO. That being said, spending time on your WordPress SEO might seem like a waste of time, it most definitely is not. Optimizing your site to the best practices outlined in this article will help you improve your rankings, gain more subscribers and have a better website in general. As we take quite a holistic view on (WordPress) SEO, meaning that we think good SEO should be
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By Nathan B. Weller Chances are that if you’re using WordPress then most of your time within the admin is in the WordPress post/page editor. It is, after all, where all of the content for your site is created. And yet, there are not a lot of blog posts out there helping users get the most out of this all-important admin area. “What you see is what you get” may be the term for how the editor functions, but that doesn’t need to be our attitude towards the editor itself. In fact, as I hope to show in today’s post,
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As a single dad who has raised a wonderful daughter, I have more experience than most guys at being a Mom! Though incredibly rewarding, it can also be quite challenging. Brass Ring Multimedia’s latest WordPress website design, the Mommy Chic by Jessica Blog , is a great resource for Moms and it’s here to offer help, information and fun. Jessica J. Johnson is a fashion stylist (and much more) who brings her passion and experience being a fashionable Mom to a great new blog where she offers advice, styling tips, information on great products and all kinds of valuable resources for Moms who are
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What Makes Your Business Special or Unique? An incredibly critical question for every business. By asking this one basic question, we are well on our way to the consultation which is an integral part of every Brass Ring Multimedia project. The first part of the Brass Ring Process, our consultation thorough marketing and needs analysis helps us start to put together a solution that will best convey our clients and their businesses. Our Process – The Brass Ring Difference Over and over, I’ve asked my clients that question, “what makes YOUR business special?” Based on that answer, we make sure
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Another Great WordPress Website The La Jolla Bar Association is a group of 63 attorneys who operate or maintain an office in La Jolla, California. One of their members, for whom I’d built several sites already, asked me to review their previous site which had been up for a number of years with an eye towards making it more dynamic and better indicative of the spirit and status of the Association. Their old site really was not conveying the organization in an effective and positive way. As a benefit of membership, each attorney has an individual page upon which to
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La Jolla man about town, Ron J. Jones has been a dear friend for many years. With a history as broadcaster, deejay and emcee since his youth in the 60’s, Ron undertakes a great new project for our community, The Voice of La Jolla, a podcasting website catering to the uniquely wonderful community of La Jolla, California. (My hometown!) Ron and I have collaborated on numerous website projects in the past together for his businesses and community organizations like La Jolla Concerts By the Sea, Rotary Club of La Jolla and La Jolla Meals On Wheels. This project presented exciting challenges
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Wellness expert JayDee Cutting III has an impressive client list including such notable companies as Kodak, Sony, Nokia, Dow, Safeway, to name a few. A mutual friend and associate put JayDee and I together for a collaboration on JayDee’s new WordPress website design. A dynamic wellness coach and motivational speaker, JayDee needed a website which would showcase his qualifications, services, products and client testimonials as well as provide a strong and easy-to-use blogging platform to convey his advice, tips and years of wellness experience to existing and potential clients. WordPress is a perfect solution. One-on-one training and ongoing coaching from
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This project features a WordPress website, logo (re)design and business cards for an exceptionally exciting new travel service based in La Jolla, California. I owe a debt to the Bird Rock Community Council in my hometown of La Jolla. Some months back, their IT specialist referred me to Doug Wheeler’s wife Jane for a project (which eventually went a different direction). Thankfully, enough of an impression was left that when it came time for husband Doug to launch his latest undertaking, Jane suggested a conversation with me and Brass Ring Multimedia was one of his first calls. We hit it
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Many of us are unaware of let alone involved with the Sister City program. Maybe I can help change that for you with the help of my friends at San Diego – Yantai Friendship Society. A sister city is a city in a foreign country with whom one’s city shares similar characteristics which is the basis for and entry into a formal cultural exchange and friendship. San Diego, in fact, has 16 sister cities. It’s a great idea and I’m honored to be involved with this project which helps connect us with our sister city of Yantai, China. The Society came
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Another website for marketing partner SEO1Click, one of San Diego’s leading SEOs (search engine optimizer). Project features home page slider showcasing client work, before and after examples of remodels, etc.
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Another collaboration with SEO1Click.com and Jordan Parkes, one of San Diego’s leading SEO’s. (Search Engine Optimizer). Laser Source specializes in being a single point for printer, fax and coper service and supplies. They’ve been serving San Diego County since 1989 and are a locally owned and operated San Diego small business.
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WordPress is a great platform. Using a content management system is the best way to present content! (Who knew?) Seriously, a CMS truly makes a website dynamic and provides the visitor an intuitive, custom visit while offering the owner great control, responsive marketing capabilities and search engine friendliness. This site for ThermarT was already built, with a default WordPress theme in place, this having been done by another individual. It was essentially one long page, with WordPress mostly at default status and was thus doing neither the client nor HIS clients much good. WordPress makes it relatively easy to put
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Hot Mix 106 listeners who tune in to his twice-weekly internet broadcast, already know my buddy Steve Kramer, better known to his fans and listeners as “Dr. Dimension.” Based in San Diego, computer repair and service specialist Steve is whom I, among many others, turn to when my computers and other devices need care. (To get hold of Steve, contact him here.) Steve’s “old site” needed to go and this was a perfect opportunity to get Steve into a website design that he could control. The power of WordPress is what Steve needed and his new website gives Steve the
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My “other hat” is that of a wedding industry professional (I’m a pro Wedding DJ for the last 25 years) and in that time I can’t remember having seen a more creative and talented photographer than Ben Aguirre of BA Photo. Though relatively new to the bridal business, his work is top-shelf and I enjoyed being part of showcasing it with WordPress. Ben came to me having had some experience with WordPress and wanted to replace his “old site” built with a popular web-builder solution and upgrade to the robust capabilities of WordPress which gives him incredible control and flexibility
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Heartland Harvest is the latest WordPress website design by Brass Ring Multimedia. Already a client, Pamela Leathers, “The Grain Lady,” sells healthy and easy to prepare meals perfect for busy families of four wishing to feed the entire family with 100% pure tasty meals. Pamela needed an e-commerce site which she could control; stark contrast and replacement for her “old” site, an archaic, problematic and visually unexciting “Zen Cart” based website which did little to attract attention, engage and compel visitors and did little in terms of sales. Using the power of WordPress, a number of shopping cart solutions, including
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I’m happy to present the latest Brass Ring Multimedia website design, this time for Rotary Club of La Jolla. Part of Rotary International, the La Jolla Chapter was chartered in 1947 and has served La Jolla, San Diego and the world by fulfilling its motto: “service above self.” Thanks to outgoing Rotary President and La Jolla “man about town” Mr. Ron Jones, Brass Ring was hired to improve on the previous, out-dated (in more ways than one) and oft-grumbled-about website design. The new site immediately conveys the beauty and uniqueness which is our home community of La Jolla. The site
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Through an ongoing alliance with SMB Creative Solutions, a local internet marketing firm which commissioned the site, Brass Ring Multimedia presents yet another $397 WordPress Special website creation. SEO1Click specializes in search engine optimization for San Diego with a focus on small & medium businesses.
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| 7. Designee -The Developer shall designate (Edward A. Sanchez) and the Client shall designate one individual as the only designated persons who will send and accept all deliverables and receive and make all communications between the Developer and the Client.Neither party shall have any obligation to consider for approval or respond to materials or instructions submitted other than through the designated persons designated in “website planner form”. Each party has the right to change its designated person upon 5 days written notice to the other. |
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| 12. Ownership of Copyright – Client acknowledges and agrees that Developer retains all rights to copyright in any original artwork created by developer. |
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| 14. Cancellation – In the event of cancellation of this assignment, ownership of all copyrights and the original artwork shall be retained by the Developer If, for any reason, client should decide to cancel this order, 15% of total shall be retained by designer until such point as work commences. Once work commences, if assignment is cancelled, fee owed will be based upon actual work completed. (See rates above) |
| 15. Ownership of Engine – The Developer retains ownership of all engines used in the production of the product unless those engines are provided by the Client. |
| 16. Credit – The Developer shall be given credit in footer of site in this form: WordPress Website by Brass Ring Web Design (incl. Link) |
| 17. Alterations – Any electronic alteration of original art (color shift, mirroring, flopping, combination cut and paste, deletion) creating additional art is prohibited without the express permission of the Developer. The Developer will be given first opportunity to make any alterations required. Unauthorized alterations shall constitute additional use and will be billed accordingly. |
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| 21. Excessive Contact – We are in business to be of service & do not apply strict limits to the amount of support we give to our clients. The client understands that the developer must ensure it is able to provide quality service to all its clients, and that no clients should be disadvantaged by the behavior of others. Training time: Typically up to 3 hours of 1-on-1, in person or by phone after launch to ensure designated staff is able to carry out website content management, etc. Coaching time: During 60 day post-launch warranty, we will support trainee(s) to ensure confidence. Typically, 3 total hours but we are dedicated to getting you confident and capable by the end of your warranty period. |
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