The internet is inundated with web site developers and designers.  On this web development site, web sites are designed for local businesses here in Wichita, KS.  We will often come to your business location, if it is convenient to do so, and get a feel for what you do.  This allows us to incorporate your personal style into your web site design.

We primarily focus our web development site, web design process, and web site builds around getting your message out.  Every business owner has a story to tell.  Your web site is a platform for you to get it out there to the community.

From Our Development Site: Web Logs = Blogs

You can use your web site to publish static pages that rarely change, dynamic pages that change daily, or even as a blog that you can update as often as you like.  One great thing about this web development site; web sites that we build can be a combination of these.  You can have a web site with static pages that also incorporates a blog.

Your blog, should you choose to publish one, can be used creatively for any number of purposes.  A restaurant owner could use it to publish daily lunch specials.  A spa owner could use their blog to publish a monthly coupon.  A club or association could even use it to publish a weekly newsletter.  At our web development site, web site owners have flexibility to create content that they need, as they need it.

The best thing about blogs, they can be subscribed to.  That means that your clients can receive your content without visiting your website.  It can arrive in their e-mail, or they can subscribe through a feed reader.  Blogs can be a great way of getting fresh content out to your clients.

With the advent of blogging in the late 1990′s, everyday people gained the ability to publish their message online giving the world the opportunity to listen to it. In the last few years, the popularity of publishing platforms such as social media, social networking, social bookmarking, and microblogging have increased the number of venues you can speak your mind through. They also increase the likelihood of people hearing what you have to say.

In the early days, if someone didn’t make an effort to pass your blog address or website address on to their friends, you spent a lot of time talking to yourself. Now, with websites like tweetmeme.com and plugins like AddToAny, passing your content on to others is as simple as a mouse-click.

Of course, that doesn’t mean that you don’t need to say something worth listening to. If your content doesn’t get people excited, they won’t be passing it on to anyone. Write about things you’re passionate about and topics you enjoy. This serves two purposes. People will be more inclined to read about what you speak passionately about, and it will keep you from getting bored with writing consitent content.

The most important thing to keep in mind is that you will not get a flood of readers right out of the gate. You have to have patience. The good news is that you can always improve on your content and that as more people find your content, the more they will pass it on, and the more people will become exposed to it.

Start writing. Keep writing. Enjoy the journey.

What is a Content Management System?

A Content Management System (CMS) is a web application that manages web pages and their content. The CMS primarily used by Binary Haiku Website Design in Wichita, KS is WordPress. While initially created as a platform for Weblogs, or blogs as they became known, it is capable of so much more.

WordPress is a full-featured CMS out of the box. It not only allows for blog posts, it also allows you to create web pages. As a matter of fact, it can be set up to create ONLY web pages. The versatility of WordPress is pretty amazing. And while it is actually set up for good Search Engine Optimization (SEO), a few plugins like All In One SEO and a few others prime your SEO strategy for success.

In a traditional website design, changing your content could be costly and time consuming. It was hard to keep up with changes and a hassle to have to pay for even the slightest modifications. By using a CMS like WordPress, you can take care of any change to your content yourself. Updating your website is easy with WordPress.

As the most used CMS in the world, WordPress is highly supported and stable. If you can use Microsoft Word, you can use WordPress.