Why Web Designers are like Interior Decorators

I often say to students, clients, and prospects that a web designer is a lot like an interior decorator. The interior decorator will make your home look great and help you pick out beautiful furniture, create a color palette to paint your walls, and select all the accessories to make your house a home. In much the same way, a web designer can develop your website so it looks great and includes all the bells and whistles.

However, you would never talk to an interior decorator before you spoke with an architect or a contractor, would you? A Search Marketer is the “architect” you need to speak with before you design your website. They can help you not only design your site correctly but also help you develop your online strategy and build your brand.

Remember, it's not that the web designer is doing anything wrong or trying to hurt your chances at getting found. It's just that most web designers and programmers do not have the knowledge or the level of understanding regarding many critical SEO aspects and can inadvertently cause your site to do poorly in the Search Engines.

So here's a small bit of advice... don’t make the same mistake so many others do when it comes to their website. Talk to a reputable SEO company or get yourself educated before you decide to design or redesign a website for your business.

Steve Scott
Owner and Head Trainer
Tampa SEO Training Academy

Apple's iPhone vs. the Samsung Omnia

With my T-Mobile contract up on my 2 year old Wing and the "ok" button hanging by some silicone threads, the time for a new phone is at hand. Time to start hunting for the latest smart phones, checking out new data plans, carriers, rates, coverage, etc! I liked my T-Mobile Wing but it was a little slow and the amount of on-board memory never really cut it for me.

To start my hunt, I'm off to my T-Mobile site, verizon's site, wirefly.com, cnet.com and on to youtube to listen to some reviews from phonedog.com.

OK... now of course the first phone I looked at was the iPhone, right?
It's all the rage right?
Seems like everyone has one right?

I've played around with the iPhone for hours at a time on occasion. In fact, a few family members had asked me if I could help them with their iPhone and I said sure.. I'll take a look. I loved it!

However, while the iPhone is a lot of fun and very very cool with some awesome apps available, there are just too many things NOT on the iPhone that I found on other phones.

Things like:
- video recording (that's a big one),
- a high mega pixel camera,
- removable SD cards,
- voice dialing (don't need, just like),
- block print recognizer (don't need, just like),
- copy/paste functionality
- PC synchronization with Outlook (way important),
- POP3 email account access (also way important),
- Ability to view/edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint files,
- View PDF Documents,
- Business Card Scanner.

All are features I'd want for my phone. Apple's iPhone..., not so much!

Then I discovered the Samsung Omnia. It has all the features above and seems to have many of the iPhone's best features (minus those cool apps of course). Plus, the Omnia also has an FM tuner built right in. That's kinda cool. It also is getting pretty good user reviews too.

Battery life does seem to be an issue for some but I'm used to plugging in my Wing every night anyway. I'm also ok with my WiFi being off and prefer to turn it only when I need it. That saves lot's of battery juice.

I don't know if I like the idea of the stylus being attached by lanyard to the Omnia but, with the Wing, I usually use my fingers anyway . Being familiar with Windows Mobile 6.1 should make the transition to the Omnia relatively smooth.

For me, I think the Omnia might be a better fit. Just haven't used one before.

Have you ever seen or used one? What did you think?

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