Ed Burns

Ed Burns has been creating websites for over 15 years. He successfully ran a photography studio in Pennsylvania for 25 years, before moving to Florida. Years of experience in marketing, photography, writing and advertising all come together to help you create a stunning web presence.


Posts by Ed Burns

Choosing a web designer

June 10, 2010 - 12:25 pm

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There are tons of people making websites, how do you choose the right one for your business? Let’s face it, common conception is that anyone can put up a website.
Commercials on TV make it seem like you can log on to a service and have a site up in minutes. Not really. You must choose [...]

Flash – Bang – You’re Dead!

May 8, 2010 - 7:55 am

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Flash pages; those fancy pages full of moving graphics or text, that flies in and out of the page can be hazardous to your web health and wealth.
Why?
First off, a Flash page increases the file size that has to be loaded for a visitor to view the page and continue into your site. How many [...]

Five Seconds and Counting…

April 12, 2010 - 1:00 am

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Five seconds, that’s it!
That is the attention span of an average web surfer. It’s not that today’s internet viewer is easily distracted; there are just too many options. People have access to more information today than ever before. And, in this fast pace society of ours, people want everything  RIGHT NOW.
Your job, as a website [...]

Keep your site up to date.

April 5, 2010 - 1:01 am

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Little things on a site make big impressions.  Nothing says “I don’t care” like an out of date web site.
 A web site needs to be kept current. A page that offers a fall special needs to be changed when that season is over. Winter Holiday greetings should not hang around until summer.  An announcement of [...]

Just because you can, does not mean you should.

March 26, 2010 - 4:27 pm

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It is very easy to get carried away with all of the options available on a web site. You can change the color of every other word on a page, make text blink, change the size of the text or mix several different type fonts on one page. No matter how tempting this may be, [...]

Pictures on your site

March 2, 2010 - 10:30 am

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Photographs should highlight the text content of the site. High quality images encourage the viewer to look closer at what is written.
The key is “high quality” images. Today we all can take pictures with our cell phones or pocket digital cameras. While some small cameras and cell phones can produce pictures of good quality, be [...]

Let the world know!

February 24, 2010 - 11:30 am

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Just because you launch a website, it does not mean the world will come knocking your door down. You have to let the world know you are there.
Put your web URL (your site name, www.yoursite.com) on every place you can think of. Add it to the signature section of your email, put it on your [...]

Welcome to our Blog

February 22, 2010 - 11:33 am

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What follows is a collection of tips and ideas about web sites,  photography, writing for blogs and every once in awhile, some sillyness. If you are considering a web site for your business, this information may help you.  If you have any questions please contact us.