How do I maximize my website's performance? This is a question we hear a lot of. It's one of the reasons that our training programs are so popular.

Like any other technical skill it often takes years of education to acquire the skills needed to become an expert at any one thing. However, that doesn't mean you can't gain enough knowledge to make immediate and impactful changes in your website's magnetism, conversion, and appearance.

To whet your appetite for our September slate of web courses, we'll be publishing a series of to-the-point "briefs" to help you get started. The first one will be on Graphic Design for Entrepreneurs. If you've ever made changes to your site, added a bit of colour perhaps or added new fonts, you might not have been happy with the results but didn't know why your new look just didn't look totally professional. Well, we'll let you in on our designers' secrets.

Check back next week to read all about it. Or subscribe to the RSS feed (click the little orange thingie at the bottom of the page) and you'll be automatically informed when the article is up!

They say that in Winnipeg 1/2 the population takes their vacation in July; and the other half in August. For many of us in business we see the slowdown, but more predictably it means that come September we are all frantically filling orders again and once more we have no time to add fresh content to our sites or to make all those blog posts we talked about. So here's a tip - do it all now! READ MORE