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Gustavo, one of my partners at Your Web Department, suggested that I talk about Facebook from my perspective. What he meant by 'from my perspective' was as one of the oldsters out there. I'm north of 55 and I'm using Facebook and Twitter, etc. for business but that's not typical of my generation. A Read More

One of the most profound things that Facebook, and social media in general, has done is that it has changed the way you can approach writing content for websites. In the beginning, websites were just online versions of printed material. It evolved to be more interactive and more specifically tailor Read More

Look, WordPress is huge. Though, curiously, it only comes up occasionally in our battles for website supremacy. Okay, they are several million users ahead of us but most of those a freeloaders. Sorry, I had to say it. Read More

People are increasingly using smartphones to access websites, and one of the cool features of the YWD platform is that it allows you to effortlessly add a mobile-optimized version. By that we mean not only that your website can look great on their small viewports and have mobile-specific content bu Read More

Many companies treat their website like an attic using it as a place to put all their old junk they've come up with over the years: old brochure copy, old videos, old audio bits. And worst of all when they do come up with new marketing ideas they usually leave the old stuff up. Read More

I've been planning to do this for a while, just couldn't find the time: a simple video showing how you can design a website using the YWD platform in just a few minutes, no programming required. Thanks to the New Year's break here it is, I hope you enjoy. Read More

The best way to prevent high-resolution pictures (like those added directly from a camera to the website that cause pages to take forever to load) from being inserted is to process them in an image editing program like Photoshop prior to uploading them. By doing this you can set their resolution to Read More

As a designer, when you create a website for a client, you hope that your layout stays intact as much as possible. But ultimately the website belongs to your client, and if they can change the content at any time on their own – which a handy system like Your Web Department enables them to do – some Read More

Whenever you do an online marketing campaign for your business, instead of sending people to your Home page, it is a good idea to send them to a specific page that's directly related to the campaign. That page is known as a "landing page" and it's best practice to keep its content simple and includ Read More

Google Web Fonts is an online library containing hundreds of free, open-source fonts optimized for the web, maintained by Google. Basically all you need to do is copy and paste a couple of lines that are specific to the font you choose from Google Web Fonts into YWD Designer. The font then can be s Read More