Archive for March, 2009

The Web Design Process: Building a Meaningful Web Site for Your Business

I’m often approached by small businesses and asked to quote a price for building them a new web site.  In response, I usually ask for a meeting to discuss their needs and properly lay out what their expectations are for their site.  I sometimes get a twisted look of confusion, or a question as to [...]


WordPress: Blog Powerhouse

In light of last week’s post, I decided to explore the blogging software I use in a little more depth for those of you thinking about starting up a blog of your own.  Throughout my entire blogging life I’ve been using WordPress, the freely available software that can be downloaded from WordPress.org.  The current version [...]


To Blog or Not To Blog

One of the most effective tools for getting your site recognized and ranked by search engines today is the blog.  A blog is short for “Web Log”, a site that is dedicated to displaying regular entries, or “posts,” of commentary, observations, descriptions of events, or even multimedia such as pictures and videos, geared towards an [...]


Web 2.0, and what it means to you

Welcome to “The Web and You,” the new Blog that we’re starting up here at Avelient. Businesses often develop because they fulfill a need, and Avelient’s course has been no different as it grows in both size and popularity.  We began as a consulting company purely for Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology companies, and while we’re still [...]