I’ve been in Santa Cruz County since 1981, designing and maintaining websites locally for the past fifteen years. You can be confident of my skills (yes, I’m delighted that your nephew builds websites, too!)  because as a business owner myself, I want to help grow your business. Melody Sharp Web Design has developed more than 100 sites–from standard to various content management systems such as WordPress–but specialize in collaborating with smaller clients and nonprofits to give them a unique and successful online presence.

Melody Sharp Web Design is small enough to give you one-on-one service yet well-connected enough to recommend other local professionals for larger projects, including project managers, marketing people, logo designers, programmers and search engine optimization gurus. We collaborate to offer content creation, blogging, SEO, SEM, e-mail marketing, Web analytics and social media.

 

So enjoyed Kathy Long’s presentation at Business Professionals of Santa Cruz County.  Along with all her solid advice regarding the  all-important signals you still need to have on your website to assure Google you are relevant and how to create them she showed us her Paper.li site.  Way cool.  I am going to set up one for myself to show clients an easy way to start an online newspaper.

What’s all this about mobile websites?

January 23, 2012

Do we have to create a separate site for Mobile? Some say YES! This This guy is the most respected for usability. I’ve installed this plugin. Was it good for you, too?

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Why SEO should be your first step in building your website

January 16, 2012

Since I specialize in affordable sites, many times clients just want “to get something up there” rather than taking the time and extra resources to do things right.  They get overwhelmed (and who wouldn’t?) if they have never had an online presence.  As we develop their site, people get excited, proud, fascinated and ultimately relieved [...]

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