What makes your business stand out?
Mythic Web Solutions
Websites and Web Apps tailor-made for you
Build your Business, Offer Services, Sell Products, Showcase Musicians, Artists, Authors, Photographers or Craftsmen, write your story...
Websites
- Platform Based or Custom Made — Wordpress, OpenCart, Square, Shopify, Wix, or Custom
- eCommerce Solutions
- Personal Portfolios & Showcases
- Hosting, Domain & Email
Guidelines for a successful website
- It should uniquely represent your business and its individual character.
- Distinguish both new and valued long-term customers with welcoming language & appearance.
- The core of your site should be essential content & features only. Satisfy your customers' curiosity without distraction. (Additional features should be kept to the periphery).
- Find that comfort zone between too little and too much. Too little – a customer is left unsure and questioning. Too much and they will mentally detach and move on.
- Intuitive, common sense structure. Customers want to know what you offer, they don't like to spend time figuring out how to navigate a site.
Choosing the Design
These are the rules I go by. Prioritize tasteful over busy. Use a color palette to make it easily readable, but not the kind of heavy contrast that burns your retinas. Choose a design kit that is memorable and unique to your business. That's really about it. It's easier said than done, but these are the things that should be considered when exploring site designs.
Web Apps
- Web Apps
- Custom or Pre-built (if available)
- Standalone or Integrated into a Website
- Scalable for Upgrades & Requested Features
Web Apps are both versatile and useful. Use a domain or a part of your website as a base for business operations... analytics & customer tracking, create & send invoices, gather emails and send newsletters, keep tabs on inventory and more.
Web Apps can also be retrofitted and used as plugins / extensions for existing platforms. Examples of my work would be: Digital Products for an online store. A "Make an Offer" option for products. "Microsite, for Wordpress. A plugin that assembles posts of a certain category into its own mini-website.
They can also be created for your customer base. Sell licenses and allow customers to put up a bio, showcase, create events or message each other.
If you want to go paperless (or paper reduced), and not have to worry about the risk of data loss from cloud services, Web Apps are the way to go. Business Data and Information would exist directly on the host that you pay for, not on some distant server with an undisclosed location.
SEO & Discoverability
The following list works well for both Websites & Web Apps. Due to the new search engine algorithm policies and the use of AI, I can no longer guarantee top tier effectiveness with search results. But this structured SEO placement will give your business a boost for all results except for paid ads & high-dollar competition.
- Organic (on-site) SEO
- Meta Tags & Information
- Site Schema
- Site Policies to invite or ban Robots & AI
- Guidance & Consultation for Marketing
Support, Maintenance & Training
- Website & Web App Issues
- Server Configuration, Maintenance & Upgrades
- Email & DNS Support
- Web & Domain Transfers/Migrations
- Consulting & Training
Technology does age and break on occassion. Hardware failures or glitches with bandwidth transmission can cause the files that run your site or app to be corrupted. Upgrades to one part of the platform may cause compatibility problems with older software, platforms, plugins or extensions.
During the lifetime of your site, maintenance will be required a number of times. Both technical and intuitive troubleshooting knowledge will be needed to solve these problems. With 23 years experience working with websites, apps and servers, one begins to understand the language of the entire system... how it works, how it's connected — and that provides expertise in investigation, even with finding uncommon threads that lead back to the source of the problem.
A few quick tips to minimize the need for maintenance:
- Create a scalable site to make updates as seamless as possible
- Back up before large upgrades in case a need to revert is necessary
- Optimize your site and database on occasion
- Clean up old emails from years back. This can free up gigs of space
- Web servers sometimes keep old statistics files (awstats, analog, webalizer), that can rack up 10's of thousands of files. These can also be purged periodically
- Run audit tools to fix broken links, tags, and clean page formatting errors
