http://smashingred.com/blog Jay Gilmore on Websites and Marketing for Small Business. Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:24:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So, recently I killed the SmashingRed Website. I figured how the hell would I ever get around to building a new one if the old one was still up. Now I have just updated to Wordpress 2.5 and as I look at the lack of content, lack of traffic, lack ... http://smashingred.com/blog/miscellanea/ive-upgraded-to-wordpress-25-i-killed-a-website-now-to-kill-the-blog/ A new deli-restaurant opened recently in the neighbouring South Shore town of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. On their grand-opening weekend, Tracy, Georgia and I got in the car and went for the 15 minute drive down the shore to try it out. The decor was chic (for Lunenburg) and clean and ... http://smashingred.com/blog/marketing/missed-customer-service-opportunities-cost-money/ Does your site work with its clothes off? Can you read or navigate the site without the background images? CSS Naked Day celebrates the separation of content and style by showing just how functional a site is without its fancy colours and image based navigation system. April 5th marks the annual ... http://smashingred.com/blog/websites/css/css-naked-day-does-your-site-work-with-its-cloths-off/ I haven't written about web design here for a while because I wanted to focus on ideas on business and marketing. Yesterday I found a great article about web standards I felt compelled to share, as it expresses the reason I am so dedicated to building sites based on standards. Try ... http://smashingred.com/blog/websites/web-standards-mean-quality-for-your-business/ The other night I was driving home from the grocery store and noticed two women walking up to a restaurant to find in frustration that it was closed—at 6:30 in the evening. I know that this little European sandwich shop closes at 4:30PM because I had done the very same ... http://smashingred.com/blog/miscellanea/are-you-open-for-customers/