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Weekly Website Wednesday – Week #9
So, you’ve decided to let someone build your kennel website. In a previous post, I mentioned a few things you’ll need to get started—your kennel introduction (where you describe who you are and what your kennel does), your domain name selection, and gathering pictures and logos to help build out your site’s interface. It’s also a good idea to think about what you want your website to look like. Broadly speaking, you should be able to convey what you like and dislike about other sites, as well as what colors and styles appeal to you. The clearer you are about your preferences, the less back-and-forth you’ll have with your web designer.
Weekly Website Wednesday – Week #8
This week I want to talk about the pictures you share on your kennel websites. Our modern-day cell phones take enormously detailed, beautiful photos. Take for example, an iPhone 16 Pro, which can take pictures at 48 megapixels … that’s 48 MILLION individual pixels. All those pixels sure do make for a pretty photo, but they come at a cost and that’s in the size of the file. One native iPhone photo can be 40, 50, even 60 megabytes in size. When you upload something that big to your kennel website, you’re forcing a visitor to have to download that huge file. If you’re adding multiply images to one page, you’re just compounding the issue. This slows down your site and frustrates anyone visiting your site … and even worse, it eats into your visitor’s data plan, potentially costing them money or reducing their bandwidth until their next billing cycle.
Weekly Website Wednesday – Week #7
This week I want to talk about selecting your kennel domain name. First let’s talk about what a domain name is. Your domain name is an easy to remember name that points your visitors to the server that your website lives on, like gundogcentral.com or netkennel.com. All servers connected to the internet have a digital address, much like your street address. Instead of giving customers a long string of cryptic numbers, which nobody would remember, you can just give them your domain name. When someone types your domain name into a web browser, your domain name is looked up in a global directory and matched to its corresponding digital address, which directs visitors to the server hosting your website.
