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As part of our series on getting back to basics, let's now look at four key types of websites that you can utilize for your products and services. 1. An Online Brochure This style of website provides basic information to your potential customer or client about your business, your products and your services. Information such as operating hours, services provided and contact details is an example of what you may provide in a simple website known as an online brochure. Fo example, this website would be relevant to a business or an individual that provides personal training and fitness boot camps.Their...

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There is no question that any business promoting themselves online needs to be taking advantage of social media and networking. Hungry Dog Media has assisted hundreds of clients with a web strategy that nearly always includes some form of social networking integration. The unfortunate aspect is that too often we see the social network strategy that we put into place cease to operate only a couple of months after it was launched. Our client looses their motivation, or does not see the results that they expected and therefore stops investing their time and resource into it. Starting a facebook...

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Sometimes it is good just to get back to basics, and that's why in this article we are going to outline what we believe are three important reasons for having an effective web presence online. 1. The Google Age Just last week we had our annual delivery of the yellow pages directory to our front door step. We collected it from the front door and in all honesty had to ask ourselves what are we going to do with this. To us, the thick pile of paper known as the yellow pages is simply something that sits on a bookshelf and is never utilized in our home. If we need to find a business, locate someone...

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Recently WordPress has been surging ahead with major upgrades to it's software system. Many of these updates include important security fixes, as well as great new features, and there it is important to keep your site up to date with the latest versions. To ensure full functionality of your site with the current version of WordPress and your installed plugins, we recommend a process of duplicating and testing your site before upgrade. This is something that HDM can complete for you.

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As part of our new website, we have launched a new client portal to assist in managing your web development projects with Hungry Dog Media. The portal allows you to exchange files directly with HDM, display and archive of previous designs an amendments, search a growing knowledgeable of FAQ articles as well as submit support tickets for service requests. If you currently have a project in production with HDM, send us an email and ask to be signed up for the client portal.

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WordPress is the most popular content management system on the web. Thousands of business owners have discovered that they can design and control their own web presence with this dynamic publishing tool. Learning a new program however can be daunting and time-consuming, especially if you’re not too advanced with computers. That’s where Teach Me WordPress comes in. Our comprehensive series of video tutorials will take you from a total novice to supreme WordPress master, FAST. From the basic fundamentals of website construction to the finer points of style and design, our High Definition videos...

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In late 2007 timinganddelivery.com was launched with a purpose to provide readers a platform outlining first-hand service experience reviews. It focused on what mattered most - how Canadian businesses treat their most important asset, the customer! Since inception timinganddelivery.com has grown into an expansive guide from the beaches and mountains of Vancouver to the skyscrapers and subways of Toronto. Due to this growth timinganddelivery.com engaged Hungry Dog Media to re-design their currrent site and migrate to a scaleable platform in preparation for future expansion. "As we began to grow...

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Noelle from The Smart Mompreneur contacted Hungry Dog Media to discuss the different options for building and launching her web site. Noelle required a presence on the internet to sell and promote her new e-Book as well as to blog and interact with her growing community. We proposed to use the Wordpress platform to allow her the blogging functionality as well as the ease of updating and adding site content herself. Two options were presented; build a complete custom site or customize an existing available template. Noelle chose to source an existing theme and decided upon the StudioPress...

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