311 Media Group - web design for small/med business

311 Media Group has been accepting into Adobe's new Solutions Partner program. Adobe offers customer experience management as a suite of products including Adobe CQ5 web content management, Adobe Online Marketing Suite and Adobe Digital Enterprise Platform (ADEP) for developing custom applications. ...

We encourage all clients to consider a Content Management System (CMS) implementation. 73% of websites still do not use a CMS (w3techs survey). Without one your site will most likely become stale as editing pages is either too difficult or expensive. Potential clients/customers don't like stale cont...

We recently had a former client who is now using Drupal complain that when they create a site for one of their clients in Drupal there always seems to be "issues" in the handoff. There's a steep learning curve to using Drupal and its wacky interface even baffles seasoned web developers. There are a ...

Longtime 311 Media Group client Annapolis Yacht Sales wisely chose to implement Concrete5 for their redesigned site that was launched on Sunday. The site features easy to update pages, tabbed interfaces to manage complex product pages and integration of social media widgets from youtube, f...

We couldn't have said it better ourselves... if you are a small/medium business or non-profit using a web developer or Adobe Contribute to manage your content its time to "step up" to a CMS.Concrete 5 is our CMS of choice and we've tried them all. We've tried Wordpress, Joomla and Mambo among others...

In my earlier post on Selling Stuff on the web I outlined a strategy for getting search results for a set of keywords related to selling my 1967 Boston Whaler. The results were excellent re: Search Engine optimization. For the keywords "boston whaler annapolis", the blog I created ranked 5th and the...

We've had a couple of potential clients emphasize recently that they wanted a local web development firm to help them with their redesign. I'm not sure it was so much a requirement generated in a positive way or if they had a bad experience with a developer who happened to be not local. &n...

By hosting your images at one of the leading online photo/image hosting services such as Picasa, Flickr, Photobucket and others your search engine visibility will likely improve. Why? Most of those services provide a spot for a link back to your website providing customers another means of entry int...

In our last post we discussed our steps to sell my 13' Boston Whaler Sport. Well its not sold yet (low demand in the Fall/Winter) but the blog and other classifieds are doing well in search results. The blog shows up on page 2 of a google search for "Boston Whaler Annapolis" which is pretty amazing ...

Since 311 Media is located near Annapolis so we have a boat. Got to have one in this area to enjoy the natural resources.  Just got  "new to us" boat in fact. So we need to sell our 13' 1967 Boston Whaler. Being a web design firm we launched a web blitz to get the word out. Makes for  ...