Domain-Based Email with Gmail

If you have a website (www.mywebsite.com) it’s a good idea to use your domain-based email account (me@mywebsite.com) because  1) its more professional than using a free email address and 2) it helps to brand and bring awareness to your business/organizations’ domain address.  If you use an email account like me@gmail.com or me@yahoo.com you receive no benefit of your email...

Restaurant Marketing

My new friend Debra was telling me about www.OpenTable.com where you can make dinner reservations for restaurants online.   I thought, wow, what a neat idea and immediately thought of some of my favorite Kauai restaurants.  So I checked it out and here’s the current list of  Kauai restaurants that are using this reservation service. There’s a bunch missing, so here’s a...

Black Hat SEO

Here’s a great article from the New York Times, on  The Dirty Little Secrets of Search. Its a great case study on why using unethical link building practices and “Black Hat” SEO consultants can land your website in hot water with Gooogle! Hopefully Google will continue to clean up its organic search engine results, booting out the “bad guys” who have top rankings as...

Poipu Beach Condo

Featured Project: My latest web project was for Tom & Patricia Biehn of  www.PoipuBeachCondo.com.  Their existing website promoting four luxury ocean front vacation rental condos at Poipu Shores on Kauai’s sunny south side was built many years ago and was in dire need of a fresh look, updated photography, updated copy and a user-friendly navigational system. Website Features: Created...