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One of our newest clients is the American Council for the Blind and I'm pleased to report that we're getting rave reviews for our work!

According to Carla Ruschival, the ACB's treasurer, "I want you to know how empowering it is to be able to handle things like uploading and tagging photos, creating categories and subcategories, and managing products. I am sure there are many other areas where I will have questions, but we are so close to being complete that I can smell it - smile. Even if we don't have all categories ready to go, I want to be able to announce that the Mini Mall is open for business on October 1."

Working with the ACB is an absolute delight and we appreciate being able to help. Yes, it is a challenge because the website has to be a great tool for the blind community as well as the sighted community, but our lead developer Chris Rockwell is doing a great job!

After working in SEO and Web Marketing for the past 15 years, there is no question that your website's position with major search engines is the single most critical element of the website design and development process.

If you are a "war baby" like I am, you might remember the poster that read "What if they had a war and nobody came?". Pretty heavy thought there. But it certainly applies when it comes to your online footprint, to wit, "what if you built a new website and nobody saw it?" 

According to the online publication CMS Wire, "As websites have evolved, what has become increasingly clear is that building a high-performance one is both an art and a science, requiring skills across a variety of design, content, user experience, and analytics disciplines..."

So the premise is that the best way to really make an online impact is to consider:

Our CEO, Gary Rawlings, has posted the first section of his upcoming book at http://www.louisvillewebgroup.com/how-ensure-successful-web-design-project.
If you're considering a web project and you don't have a lot of experience, this article is a must-read!

What if one of your products has a recall? You need to find each of your customers who ordered that product and send them a notice. What if you have hundreds of thousands of orders?

This was exactly the situation one of our clients found themselves in recently. It was their first ever recall, and so nothing was built into the system to handle the situation. There are only a few options: