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SLGD developed this one-page website for a long-time client. Our client wanted a simple one-page website with information about her, her services, testimonials, and a way for people to contact her. A very simple website but with the information necessary to help a client. Mending Hearts Pet Loss is a heart-based presence of support for those who are grieving the anticipation or loss of a beloved pet. This process can feel unbearable and very difficult to navigate. At Mending Hearts Pet Loss you will find comfort, warmth, safety, support, and...

Brookmeade Sod Farm's new website designed and developed by the slgd.com website development team. Brookmeade's old website was very much out of date and had been neglected for some time. Brookmeade doesn't really advertise because they have been in business for more than 50 years and have a strong following. However, they still do need a functional website to have a strong internet presence to provide a service to their customers and potential customers. SLGD started by consulting with the office manager, Rose Little to find out what content to...

SLGD is making an impact in its business community. SLGD was asked to help maintain the Market Ashland Partnership website. We kindly accepted. Supporting Local Business Professionals. Market Ashland Partnership creates new opportunities for local businesses in our area. Our support network of 70+ small and large companies allows for countless cooperative benefits. This includes discounts on local products & services, regular chances to engage with the community, and additional avenues of marketing and advertising. MAP exists to support community professionals in Ashland, Beaverdam, Hanover Courthouse, Montpelier, and Doswell. After...

Hiring a website designer can be challenging and frustrating to find the right company that you can trust. Here's an email to a potential client after our initial meeting of discussing the design of a website for their company. "Nice to meet you this morning. As we discussed your next steps will be to get a list of what pages (page names) and functionality for each page will be for the site. Also, search the internet for other websites you all like and why. This will give us an idea...

Shannon Loy taught us a lot about LinkedIn. She even spoke to us one on one about any questions we had during the breaks. Needed a specific question answered? DONE. I took away many nuggets to help my website development business be better on LinkedIn. Well worth the price! Since this was virtual it gave me an opportunity to make some updates to my LinkedIn profile in real-time. The Chesterfield Chamber offers many valuable workshops and talks to help you and your business be successful. Go here to see the...

SLGD recently has joined two awesome services Zoom and Calendly to its communication processes. We have learned a few things from COVID. To streamline and to use our time wisely we will use Calendly for scheduling meetings and Zoom to facilitate meetings. We are getting back out into the public for in-person meetings but for where we can to save time we prefer to meet virtually. We'll use this technology for networking, 1to1s, and client meetings where necessary. We hope that you will not feel bad about our social distancing...

KBI Commercial Building Inspection was referred to SLGD (Samuel Little Graphic Design, Inc) by a local website advertising firm in Richmond, Virginia. KBI are engineers and architects who specialize in the development and execution of commercial, single and multi-housing projects in Maryland, Virginia, Washington D.C., North Carolina and Texas. KBI's website provides information and features commercial building inspection projects in the southeastern region. KBI also provides pre-construction reviews, draw inspections and project management for retail spaces, hospitals, new home construction, multi-housing projects and pharmaceutical companies. KBI gets referrals from local...

SLGD recently joined a local Ashland, Virginia organization called MAP (Market Ashland Partnership). SLGD is located in Ashland, Virginia, and sees the value of networking, marketing and advertising in a local market. Samuel Little, president of SLGD visited with Rose Little (no relation) with Brookmeade Sod Farm, Inc. a member of MAP. This visit was a great opportunity to get to know local businesses in the Ashland, Hanover County, Virginia area. SLGD is quoting to redesign Brookmeade's website it's in much need of repair. SLGD (Samuel Little Graphic Design, Inc.)...

Thousands of WordPress sites may have become broken since updating to WordPress version 5.5. This is why SLGD DOES NOT have WordPress automatically update software or plugins. Some of our competitors do and now they most likely have a mess on their hands. From our experience, we've seen where website service design/developers have plans to monitor your website but did don't really get into your site and look at it. Most everything is automated and then if there is a problem then they fix it. But most of the time...

SLGD got a notice that a client’s website bandwidth had exceeded to over 13GB of bandwidth. Hosted bandwidth is when people visit your website, they download your website to their computer into what's called cache. This is a normal computing process. Say if a visitor visits your website and goes to every page on your website and your website is 100 MBs you multiply that by how many visitors you get in a month and that gives you your total bandwidth for the month. This time I have a suspicion...