Technology Resources
Explore the latest web design trends and tools with our comprehensive technology blog, packed with valuable resources and information.
Using a CloudFlare Content Delivery Network (CDN)
In the olden days, a website lived on a glorified computer known as a server. Any time anyone visited that website, the browser on their computer downloaded the images and other files from that server/computer. If ten people looked at the website at the same time, that means ten people were using that server at the same time. And if a hundred people were looking at the website at the same time… well, it wasn’t hard to crash that server. These days, most people use commercial hosting services… and a lot of websites use a CDN, or Content Delivery Network.
How to Improve Your Google Maps Ranking
Most of our clients have had a business for quite a while, but occasionally we have a client who’s starting from scratch. No website, no domain name, no brand—just a great product and a lot of pluck! Recently, a client in this exact boat asked us how to show up on the first page of Google, and in particular how to show up as one of the first results in Google Maps. While we can’t promise that—especially for a brand-new business—a number of our clients do in fact appear on the first page of relevant search results. How they achieved that Google ranking is a good question with a difficult answer.
Remote Support with I.T. Roadmap: AeroAdmin
Last week, we quietly added a button to our Tech Support page. After years of using TeamViewer and Logmein products for remote support, we have switched to a new-to-us product called AeroAdmin. While we love offering remote support, we didn’t love the process of walking people through installing our remote support tools. And while Logmein is a great product that has gotten much easier to use in the past year or two, we don’t love the pricing for it—now over $100 per month. After all, the lower our cost for support tools, the less it costs you too. AeroAdmin is only $69.90 per seat per year, and it allows us to establish remote access to an unlimited number of computers.
