Server Upgrades
As the dust finally starts to settle you should be noticing a lot of performance changes to the Goldsboro Web Development network. The server we have been maintaining for our websites was a very old machine (2007 old), a Core Duo machine with 8GB of…
Everyone Needs a Website
When I was in grade-school, we were brought into class one day and sat behind our desks and taught about pen-pals — a word all but extinct in the English language because of modern technology. The concept then was the same as today. While we used…
Say, ‘WHAT?’
We picked up a new client yesterday, one that had previously shopped around and tested the waters with some other providers out there. One of the claims he was given from a competitor was, “Our sites load within 150 miliseconds (they actually average about 1100ms)….
New Google Expectations
As some of our customers know from our frantic calling of about 270 customers between Friday afternoon and Saturday night; Google has some new expectations and is starting to penalize websites that do not live up to these expectations. Almost a year ago, Google warned…
Why ‘The Media’ is a Fossil
Since the beginning of time, our societies have distributed information by a central point. Today we call that central point, “The Media”. You know these by very popular names, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, etc. While they use new technologies to distribute their news, the…
Vet Your Web Designers
Three weeks ago a client approached us about a new website for his company. After taking down all of the notes and paying close attention to what he wanted, he then pipes up and starts talking about his previous web designer. I’m not going to…