As part of a continued growth initiative, AlphaGeek Web Design is pleased to announce a merger with Chesley Consulting. The acquisition gives these two technology companies exciting opportunities for growth and market expansion.

All businesses should should have a blog to help build credibility, to provide articles that are rich in keywords for SEO, to gain leads from potential customers, to share news with current clients and to easily share your blog posts on Facebook and LinkedIn. But where is your blog hosted?

We all know that social media is a great way to build relationships, drive repeat business and attract new customers. Social networks, like Facebook and LinkedIn, are the places where social interactions happen (discovering & sharing).

Many of us are saving email messages to the server so that we can download our email to Outlook and other devices (i.e our phone or iPad). If you are saving email messages to the server but not deleting old email, you risk maxing out your email account quota causing email to bounce back to the sender!

Many local business owners have opted to try building their website with a cheap online website builders but have grown increasingly frustrated with the experience and lack of service. A common call to our office is from a potential client who realizes they either don't have the time to create their own website or they can't get the personal help they need in the process.

When we create contact areas on a client's website, we prefer to develop contact forms instead of linking to an email account since using a contact form helps do away with unwanted email solicitations. Contact forms are then sent from the server to our client's designated email address.

The Geeks will agree that an inexpensive online site builder might be a practical way to get your business on the web. Online site builders, however, are not ideal for complex websites with more features than just a few pages of text-based information.