Need a Website? To improve your Website? Just need help?
I‘ve been in Santa Cruz County since 1981, designing and maintaining websites since 2002. You can be confident of my skills because as a CEO myself, I want to help you grow your business. Melody Sharp Web Design has designed hundreds of websites—from WordPress to Shopfiy, SquareSpace and Wix—but specializes 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.
Bloated Servers Hurt Your Business
Many hosting company are getting bought out by big corporations and/or are just getting greedy. Add to that, it takes me three times as long to develop a WordPress site on GoDaddy because I have to wait for their bloated servers to respond. Yes, their customer service...
Getting Mobile Friendly
Yes, we all need to be mobile friendly since people are moving from desktops to doing everything on their phone. And, of course, Google says your site won't show up in searches on mobile devices if it's not built for mobile. Nice article link that explains the...
What’s all this about Google+ Authorship?
Perhaps you've heard that authorship is a big deal and Google Plus authorship is even more important? Like many things for WordPress clients, "There's a plugin for that!" But, you do need to setup up a Google+ profile and plugin WP-Buddy author (wp-buddy) has given...
Latest Website Launches
Having so much fun this month, starting with helping local police chief John Weiss with his cartoon website. Current projects include building a new WordPress website for the Santa Cruz Veterans as they re-open their building in January and a new WordPress site for...
What’s all this about mobile (Responsive) websites?
You can install this plugin in an effort to make your site visible on Mobile Devices. But, if you are developing a new site, it needs to be mobile friendly. Below is a great infographic from Kirsti Scott at HotDesign. Bottom line is that Business mobile use in 2016...
Not Ready For Prime Time?
What to do if you want to install WordPress and get things going fast? Things can evolve...but sometimes they don't evolve fast enough or your client decides that they want to change their mind? There's a plugin for that. This one is $23 but they do offer a free...
This week’s favorite plugin
What happens when you have a "staging site" at any hosting service and then launch? Well, sometimes things go smoothly and then--often--all links don't update so you end up with "missing image" errors. Bummer. But, like so many things in WordPress, "there's a plugin...
Help! WordPress Sites Were Hacked
Several of my clients' WordPress sites got hacked during the past week. Symptoms: You click somewhere blank on your web page and it will go to some spammy site or other, different ones each time.The folks at Cruzio are taking steps but here are some resources and...
The Next “Bright and Shiny” Object
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...