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At David’s recent What I Wish I’d Known Before I Built My Website Learning Lunch, it was clear that business owners are concerned about making their sites SEO friendly.

Even if they weren’t sure what SEO is, the Berkeley Chamber of Commerce members at the lunch were worried about it and how the ranking of their site affects their business.
We talked previously about how important it is to choose a designer who understands the technology of website function, not just aesthetics.

Your designer needs to understand SEO as a part of that technology, so that your site is built for search engines from the ground up.

Here are some tips to make your website SEO friendly! (more…)

Last week T324 owner David Daniels gave a Learning Lunch, “What I Wish I’d Known Before I Built My Website”, at the Berkeley Chamber of Commerce.

The conference room was standing room only, because although business owners come in many flavors of tech savvy, they all know mistakes are expensive.

The introduction to the talk includes a round-robin of questions about the needs and concerns of the business owners at hand, and a familiar pattern of hopes and fears emerged. Everyone wanted to know how to design a good business website. (more…)

The first question a walk-in client here at the T324 office usually asks is, “How much does a website cost?”

We wish we had a quick one-size-fits-all answer to that question.

Does the walk-in client want a single page personal website or a seventy-five page e-commerce site that gets fifty thousand visits a day?

Does he or she want a generic design from a commercial template or a custom design that involves logos, branding and video production?

Does the client want all the latest social media interactivity, email signup and a blog or just a landing page with a phone number?

Here’s a news story about the state-of-the-art Drupal ecommerce website T324 has just completed for extreme value retail giant 99 Cents Only.

This great site redesign allowed Senior Project Manager Brian Nowell to really flex his Drupal muscles, in some cases implementing tools and coding techniques so new they were being released during the project. Advanced functionality means the site is extremely fast and user-friendly while being easy to maintain and update for the 99 Cents Only staff.

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T324 is an active member of the Emeryville Chamber of Commerce, a wonderful, lively local business organization. The Emeryville Chamber does a monthly series of breakfast events called Chamber University, where the leaders of local businesses can share their specialized expertise. (more…)

Starting web site and ecommerce overhaul for Kathy Kamei Designs (at www.kathykamei.com) to support their new business strategy. Wonderful jewelry if you haven’t see it!