Website Design

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...

Better Floors, Inc. is family owned and operated by two generations since 1984 by the Godbolt family. Learn more about their story. Whether it’s carpet, vinyl, ceramic or hardwood installation and finishing they’ve got your floors covered. Their installers are employees of the company to ensure you get the best quality-controlled installation of your flooring. Wherever there’s a floor they have a solution for you! Contact Better Floors, Inc. for all flooring dreams. Better Floors, Inc. has been a long time client from helping them recover all of their website...

EC&M was formed in 1996, originally as a commercial, electrical contractor. The President and Founder, Michael L. Wynne, had the vision to see the synergies between the electrical business and the security business, and in 2003, EC&M entered the commercial security business by creating EC&M Integrated Solutions. EC&M hired a team of seasoned professionals to provide design, installation, and service to its clients in Virginia and North Carolina. In 2011, the original two divisions of EC&M, Electrical Contracting and Integrated Solutions have been “rebranded” under the name “EC&M Integrated Solutions”....

Absolute Clean Pressure Wash, LLC website redesign. Absolute provides all-purpose pressure washing services for residential and commercial properties. This website features a Facebook feed on the homepage so that the owner/workers can post and keep their website fresh with new information. Every page has a call to action form for lead generation. Photos from Facebook are added to photo galleries along with captions. Absolute was referred to SLGD through a referral from a fellow Chesterfield Chamber member. Absolute had challenges with their previous website provider. They were being overcharged and...

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...

Is your website secure? We are always learning about how to keep our client's website secure and running. It's important to have someone checking and monitoring your site for malicious activity and to assure the website is online. Having issues with your Wordpress website? Here's some information about our plans: https://www.slgd.com/slgd-wordpress-security-services Give us a call we can help.

Note to a potential client: I reviewed your website and there are a lot of pages in the navigation that don't go anywhere. I also see that you are hosted by Network Solutions, the slowest webpage loading host in the industry. See your loading speeds (attached images) for mobile and desktop. What does this mean? People expect websites to load within seconds and if your website takes too long to load, people bounce to your competitor. What can you do about it? Well first, find a faster host then follow the...

It's best to have your DNS at the Domain and not the Host. Because your DNS is what controls connectivity to all website services ie hosting, website, email, etc. Websites and hosting can come and go. So if your DNS is at the domain then when changing hosts nothing has to change with the DNS. A DNS change; your website, email and etc can be offline for 4 to 24+ hours. If you are changing your hosts and your DNS is at the current host then the DNS has to...