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Managing Your Domain Names

Managing Your Domain Names

About once every 2-3 years, a client calls me about losing access to a domain name. This generally happens because the domain name wasn't renewed, and their site goes down. They can't log in because they don't own the domain, don't know who does, and/or don't have...

The Ugly Truth

The Ugly Truth

Every year, I have clients contact me asking about their site's traffic, lack of leads, and general frustration with the performance of their website. I proceed to ask the following questions. How often do you look at your traffic numbers? How often do you promote...

New Site for Florida Crown Region

New Site for Florida Crown Region

We recently did a redesign of the Florida Crown Region Porsche Club of America website.  One of the greatest things about this site is all the images are member provided. Before we started the project, we sent a message to their membership asking for their story and...

New Rates Starting 2023

New Rates Starting 2023

I recently had lunch with a fellow owner of a design agency like mine. We were talking about the economy, the state of our business, web hosting, and a few other things. We both shared the same concerns about the ever-increasing cost of web hosting, the...

Why professionally designed logos are so expensive

Why professionally designed logos are so expensive

We don't do many logos at Pixel Jocks but when we do, we get push back on price.  We're typically compared to services like 99Designs. To be completely honest, we've had clients use 99Designs and got a great logo. We've even used it ourselves for a quick logo for...

New Web Site Hosting & Care Plans

New Web Site Hosting & Care Plans

We recently expanded our web site hosting plans to better align with our client's needs.  We now offer three different hosting plans that include a variety of new reporting tools, additional site maintenance features and even time for site updates each month.  Here is...

Did you know we can do that?

Did you know we can do that?

We recently lost a great client.  It wasn’t because they were unhappy with our work.  It was because we didn’t offer the services they wanted (or so they thought). They received an email from another agency describing their various service offerings. Some of those...

Is Perfect the Enemy of Good?

Is Perfect the Enemy of Good?

"Perfect is the enemy of good." It's a common phrase you hear in the business world, especially in the software and web development industries. Before going forward, I must share that I've said this phrase to myself on a regular basis -- more times than I'd like to...

Email and Domain Name Scammers

Email and Domain Name Scammers

A quick message about your email and domain names (if you have one). Hackers and spammers seem to have more free time than normal, as we are seeing in recent email scams. Both my clients and I have been getting emails from what appear to be our email service providers...

Site Launch – Commercial Recreation Group

Site Launch – Commercial Recreation Group

We recently launched the CRGPlay.org website for Travis Goebel, who took over the commercial playground division of Recreation Unlimited. This site was built under a very tight deadline of less than four weeks. Travis gave us plenty of latitude with the design so we...

Site Launch – ATSC

Site Launch – ATSC

We are pleased to share that we launched the site ATSC.org on April 1st in partnership with Arland Communications.  It was our first hard deadline for a website launch in years.  Given all that was happening in the world the weeks preceding this deadline, we were...

Premium+ WordPress Hosting

Premium+ WordPress Hosting

We’ve always offered premium WordPress hosting from the technical side of things. We use top-tier hosting providers and include all the requisite backups, plugin and core updates, support, up-time monitoring, SSL, etc. A couple of times a year, various clients would...

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