Reading Time: < 1 minFAQ (“Frequently Asked Questions”) pages are an oft-used feature on websites, with Google showing nearly two billion of them in the search results. There are times when those pages can be helpful for users, but often they become pages full of “we weren’t sure where else to put this”. If you have a solid content […]
Websites
The “about” page is the only good place for your company story
Reading Time: 2 minWhen a user visits your website, they usually have a problem that you’re hoping they can solve. If you can show your expertise in understanding the problem (perhaps you’ve faced it as well), show how you can solve it, and give clear next steps, you’re great shape. We’re talking to a couple of different companies […]
Al Gore and the internet
Reading Time: 2 minAs we all know, Al Gore invented the internet. Or maybe he didn’t invent it, but he said he did. Or maybe that’s not even true… I still see this come up fairly regularly, and I kind of feel bad for Gore about it. He indeed did great work to help the internet grow, and […]
Be careful when measuring your targets
Reading Time: 2 minA few weeks ago, Seth Godin shared a pretty simple statement from Charles Goodhart: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.“ To be honest, it took me a little while to understand what he meant. We set a lot of goals at our company, and we measure our progress […]
You don’t need more website traffic
Reading Time: < 1 minA goal of almost every website owner in the world is more traffic. “If I’m making $100/day with 1,000 visitors, then if I double my traffic I’ll double my revenue!“ It’s not always that easy. Getting more traffic on your site isn’t a bad thing, but rather than getting more traffic you should work on […]
Why can’t we just “shut down” child porn?
Reading Time: 2 minChild pornography and human trafficking are major problems across the world, and the web helps to facilitate both to a rather large degree. Whenever some website gets taken down (or blocked on a site like Facebook), you’ll often see memes like this start to float around: At first glance, it seems like a solid question. […]
Trusting authentic recommendations
Reading Time: < 1 minOver at GreenMellen, we don’t host websites. We help people choose hosting, and we take care of all of the technical work, but we want our clients to have ownership of their sites. We do this for their long-term benefit (owning your own stuff is a good thing), but recently I’ve noticed a great side […]
You don’t need to build your own server
Reading Time: 2 minWith the continuing fight that many are facing against “big tech”, a growing group of people are building their own servers to host their websites and content. There are really two reasons you might want to do this: Servers for your media consumption at your house, such as music and movies. If you can’t get […]
Protect your community
Reading Time: < 1 minThere is a good chance you found this post through an online community that you’re a part of, possibly Facebook or Twitter. While having a community on sites like that is a great thing, it’s also incredibly fragile. Social media accounts get shut down constantly; mostly for good reasons (spammers, etc), but normal accounts can […]
Sharing the posts I write
Reading Time: 2 minSince I’ve started blogging regularly again, the way I share my posts each day has been slightly adjusted a number of times. I recently was asked for some details on that, so here you go. Before I tackle that, though, there are two important things to frame this with. First, you need to understand why […]