Web and Internet Related Blog Articles by Harness Media

Your online reviews can turn visitors into customers

One of the best things you can do for your business is to gain positive online reviews from satisfied customers. These reviews can then have a positive effect on potential customers that…

Copywriting | Marketing

Connect with your customers through storytelling

People love to read stories. Stories can be inspiring, and they can fuel our imaginations. They can even invoke emotional responses. But what does that have to do with marketing your business?…

Blog | Marketing | Optimization | Security

Top 9 Reasons You Need A Website Refresh

One of the best and most cost-effective ways to market your business is with your website. For this reason, it is very important that you perform a website refresh it every few…

Business | Marketing

Don’t Build The Website of Your Dreams

When you hire a web developer to build a new website for your business, you may already have thought about what you want it to look like. You may have considered what…

Tutorials

How to Whitelist Emails

It’s vital to your business to ensure the proper delivery of important emails to your inbox. The first step in achieving this goal is to regularly visit your spam or junk folder…

Business | Marketing | Security

Why It’s Important to Keep Your Website Updated

It’s extremely important to keep your website’s software updated, regardless of what was used in which to build it. Whether it was built using WordPress or another content management platform, it is…

Business | Our Policies

Why You Need A Privacy Policy, Terms of Service and Disclaimer For Your Website

As new laws are passed around the world and in a growing number U. S. States, it is becoming increasingly critical that every website have clear policies that outline privacy concerns and…

Blog | Business | WordPress

Harness Media Releases WordPress Plugin for Local Networking Group

As a proud member of the Mid-Valley Business Network (MVBN) here in Salem, Oregon, it has been our privilege to design, build, and create a website for the group. But now we’ve…

Copywriting | Our Policies

Content Focused Design: Why You Need To Focus On Content Before Design

The process of building a website can be a timely one, but it’s very important to consider the user experience. For every website built by Harness Media, we never begin with design….

Tutorials

Making Sense of Domains, Emails, Websites and Hosting

When I am training clients on the basics of how to use and access their websites, I often use an analogy that I developed a few years ago. I’ve received a lot…

Optimization | Tutorials | WordPress

Top 8 Ways To Make Your WordPress Website Super Fast

Speed is important online. Your website visitors are impatient and Google rewards fast websites with higher ranking in search results. WordPress sites can be slow if they aren’t built or configured properly….

Copywriting | Tutorials

F Your Website

How and why to prepare your website content using the F Pattern style of writing Recently, I presented to the members of a local business referral and networking group on how to…

Blog | Marketing

Why You Need A Responsive Website

How does your current website look when you view it on your smartphone? If it’s not already set up for viewing on mobile devices, chances are it’s too small or scrolls sideways…

Tutorials | WordPress

WordPress Event Management Options

If you’ve ever worked with a WordPress-based website where you wanted to manage events, you may already be aware of the options available to you. WordPress event management is a rather common…

Security | Tutorials | WordPress

11 Ways To Make Your WordPress Website Hackable

As you may already know, WordPress is a powerful tool for building websites. It provides website owners with a learnable and intuitive interface (the Dashboard) for publishing and managing content. It also…

Marketing | Optimization

Google Prefers Responsive Design

By now, you are probably used to hearing about Google changing its search algorithm to accommodate various trends in the web design market. They are constantly updating the algorithm to keep up…

Security | Tutorials

Rescue My Domain

Just like any profession, there are a few of those so-called “professionals” out there that make the real professionals look bad. And web developers are no exception. I’ve rescued several of my clients…

Blog

What I’ve Learned From Operating A Discussion Forum

It’s a tough job but somebody has to do it. There’s a good chance you are a user of at least one online discussion forum. Some are used for discussion of a…