10 ways your website can project professionalism (and make you seem bigger)

Bigger IS better. Yes, it’s true. Especially if you are a small company trying to compete with the big guys (and gals). There are some tricks you can do with your website to make you seem bigger than you are and help you land new clients. Here are the top ten.

1. Use a great template

There are so many templates out there now that have a professional look, and many of them are free. Themeforest.net has some incredible templates for sale, some for as low as $4. They also offer a free template every month. The tricky part is that you usually have to use an FTP site to upload these templates into a folder on your web host site. If you know how to do that, then search away!

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The 30 Best Tools to Create a Mobile Website Listed

In the United States alone, mobile devices account for 8.5 percent of all web traffic, and conservative estimates suggest that that number will double in a year. The time to create a mobile version of your website is now. The sites that don’t get up to speed now will simply fade away as less users access them. With that in mind, we present to you the 30 best tools for developing a full-featured mobile website.

1. Mobilizer — Free

Mobilizer is an awesome free desktop application for both Windows and Mac OS X that lets you view any website as if you were viewing it from a specific mobile device. It supports iOS, Android, BlackBerry and Palm. Mobilizer is a great way to see how a site looks across a range of platforms and devices fast.

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Hire a Web Designer or Design the Website Yourself?

Most new websites, unfortunately, fail. That failure doesn’t happen because of bad ideas or a lack of effort. It happens because the site owner makes poor fundamental choices. One of the most essential and toughest decisions when setting up a website concerns web design: Do I design it myself or do I hire a professional? In the following article, we’ll explore the various solutions along with their pros and cons.

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