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Your Company on LinkedIn

Your Company on LinkedIn

A client of ours recently pointed out that LinkedIn.com, the popular professional social network, has introduced individual company profiles. They started the program with more than 30 companies participating with the option to add your own company. As far as Search Engine Optimization goes, this is a benefit to your website for more reasons than one; adding a link to your site as well as being able to include your keywords, Read More

iCanstandit table stand

Stephen & Deborah Goddard's creation 20 years ago was perfect for displaying plates and other small artistic decorations. Then earlier this summer one savvy owner of the ArtFixtures stand took the decorative plate off and put an iPad on. This Changed Everything... He immediately saw the utility of such a product and snapped a photo before informing the Goddard's of the market they have yet to tap. This put them on the Read More

Rocco and Beep

Designer Don Charles found Opuscule as a result of our search engine optimization efforts. He has a small business selling upcycled shirts for women, men and children, as well as pants, belts, hats and t-shirts. Over numerous discussions Mr. Charles was able to provide specific designs and specifications and Opuscule was able to deliver an affordable eCommerce solution that was easy to update and personalize. Check out roccoandbeep.com for some incredible apparel! New Read More

PS7

Opuscule has recently finished up the website for a school in Sacramento, PS7 a St. Hope public school. PS7 heard about Opuscule through a student's parent with whom we had done business previously. They were in need of a nice looking website, quickly, that they could update themselves. We spoke with them about website templates and faster than you can say "test scores" they were up and running. Their web hosting company Read More

Eloquently So Photography

She takes pictures locally and is amazing people internationally. Tanialee Gonzalez contacted Opuscule when she was ready to take her photography business, Eloquently So, to the next level. Being exceptionally tech savvy, eloquentlyso.com was built so its owner could log in to an administrator section and add, change and delete content regularly. Additionally, they needed an affordable website option with the ability to provide password protected pages for clients to view. In Read More

The Allen Firm

Opuscule and Chicago Personal Injury Attorney Roosevelt Allen teamed up to create his brand new firm's website located at www.allenfirm.com. Mr. Allen needed a quick web marketing solution that he and his staff could update regularly with a simple login and password. The site uses WordPress as the content management system and the design comes from a purchased template. This was part of Opuscule's Discount Website package. The site is set for Read More

A Favorite Place on Google Maps

A Favorite Place on Google Maps

Opuscule's client The Law Office of Bowman & Associates was awarded a very rare and distinguished certificate for their performance on Google Maps (affiliated with Google Places). All the Search Engine Marketing and Search Engine Optimization we put into the website and its listings across the web have paid off with Google claiming, "Between December 1 and February 28 , The Law Office of Bowman & Associates, Apc was one Read More

Update WordPress 3.0

Update WordPress 3.0

Many of our clients and colleagues alike are waking up this morning to find that WordPress is doing what it does best; provide a free upgrade. WordPress is an amazing Content Management System (CMS) that allows our users to login to their website and easily make changes, add pages, blog and/or delete content. Today they released the much anticipated, well trusted and highly tested Version 3.0. Many new features have been added Read More

WordPress Database Backup

WordPress Database Backup

As we have mentioned before, if you are using WordPress, or any other content management system, it is wise to make a periodic backup of your database. Database backups could be used to recreate your website in the event of an outage, shutdown, loss, hack or general scripting error. Fortunately, with WordPress, there are many trusted tools (plugins) that assist with this seemingly overwhelming task. Let's explore how to easily make Read More

Writing a Great Page Description

We have written about one of the most important parts of your website's search engine optimization, the Page Title, but there's another aspect of SEO that is incredibly important - the Page Description. The Basics: Between 150 and 170 characters Unique for each page Relevant and keyword rich for each page <meta name="description" content="Your page's meta-description should be between 150 and 170 characters, and for each page should be unique, relevant to that page, and Read More