Makes a great gift! Just look through our catalog, pick the masthead you want, and add it to your cart with the coupon code holiday. Fill out your title, tagline, and dimensions (if you want specifics) and we’ll finish the masthead and email it to you.
The coupon also works with the ever popular custom made mastheads! Check out our portfolio at the Masthead Factory.
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I was noticing the other day that my husband’s website for his law firm was woefully out of date, and decided to do some upkeep on it. I went in for a complete overhaul, updating the entire site, colors, graphics and all.
It’s certainly a simpler site - a Wordpress powered blog that contains static pages for firm information, a contact form, and a “News” area for updates from the firm on local cases, successes, and local news.
Take a few minutes to tool around and check out the new site. It’s professional and attractive.
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The economy has hit everyone hard, and web design services for small businesses are being affected. In an effort to do our share, we have drastically reduced our prices, some by as much a $1000!
Please take a few minutes and check out our new rates, effective immediately, and contact us with any questions or for a more detailed quote.
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Notice to all clients with sites hosted by Sumy Designs: we will be performing scheduled maintenance on your server on November 25th @ 11:00 PM EST. The upgrade will allow us to provide you with a higher level of performance and security. During this time, your websites will be unavailable for an estimated 30-45 minutes. During this time an unbranded, generic “Under Maintenance” page will be displayed instead of your normal content.
Your site will be back up and running shortly after. We are sorry for any inconvenience.
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One of the most common questions I’m asked when peple are looking into starting an e-commerce store is, “How can I accept payments?”
Most people assume that it involves going to the bank, getting a machine, and that it’s very expensive. It’s especially daunting if you’ve only ever had a physical store, and don’t know the ins and outs of how this Internet thing works.
Thankfully, there are plenty of us out here looking out for you. Accepting payments in your e-commerce store is actually quite easy. There are a number of options. Paypal is an easy one, that doesn’t require your user to have an account and will take any number of forms of payment. However, the drawback is that the user will have to jump from your site to Paypal in order to pay. The benefit is that Paypal doesn’t charge a monthly fee or their standard account, so all you pay is a percentage of your sale.
However, I like to recommend people go right ahead and run cards on their site. Most good shopping carts have modules that will allow you to set this up pretty easily, and you only need a merchant account that comes with authorize.net. Once that’s set up, we can set up payment processing in just a few minutes, depening on which shopping cart you use.
As for cost, these vary by merchant. I’ve seen as little as $10 a month to more than $30 a month, depending on the options you choose to add and how many types of credit cards you want to accept. Don’t forget, they’ll still take a cut of every sale.
Finally, the last cost involved is getting an SSL certificate for your hosting. This is an added annual cost, and what this does is ensure that the credit card and personal information is transferred securely from your site to the merchant site. It’s an absolute necessity if you want to accept credit cards. SSL certificates can run you anywhere from the low-end of $39 a year to the high end of $2,800.
I’ll cover SSLs in another post!
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Does anyone else struggle with Google Analytics? I put them in all the sites I create, but I struggle to find out where the hits are coming from, what their content path was, what time of day they were visiting, and so on. I believe I should be able to find this information, so either I haven’t spent enough time learning about how to use analytics, or it’s just not easy to use. Or maybe it’s just not there.
Take, for example, Sitemeter. I finally ponied up and paid for the Premium version, and I really like it. I can see exactly what time the visitor hit my site. I can see how they found it, either by search query, direct hit, or link. I can see their geographic location, their IP, and exactly which pages they looked at and how long they were there. It really helps me to know what kind of information is being found and how it’s being viewed.
I recognize that as far as tracking conversions, Google is where I need to go. But if I don’t need conversions, is there a reason why Google Analytics would be better than Sitemeter? I could use some input and how other designers/developers use their analytics data.
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