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KISS Has A New Web Site

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

KISS is pleased to introduce our new web site this week.  It represents a new look and feel, and a slightly different content voice as we refine even further what we are and where we have come from.

We’re still a web site design and development house, to be sure.  We still design and develop custom software applications for entrepreneurs bringing business ideas to the web.  We still contribute web copy writing and search engine optimization services to those efforts, too.

We’ve become as much business consultants, though, helping those entrepreneurs determine whether there is a formal business plan in their idea, finding the flesh to attach to those skeletal ideas and making abstract ideas reality on the web.  Our experience of over 600 sites and several dozen custom software applications for them has helped elevate our game to the level of on-line business advisor.

In the construction of this new site, we took over 100 PHP includes from the old site and reduced the number to a very respectable 33.  From a programming standpoint, this represents a substantial cleaning up of the code, and a speeding up of the site.  The integration of two different slide show effects presents both current enterprise products and a portfolio of some recent work in smooth and easy on the eyes ways.  All of our resources from the previous site remain – - our site now just has a cleaner and neater feel to it, and content is presented with greater clarity, crispness and brevity.

The Tao of KISS is our blog, and we publish regularly on Web Copy Writing and SEO, as well as Internet Technology, as we explain our Way of doing things here.  We continue to offer our Free Resource Booklet on web copy writing and seo, and you’ll find that download on our Services page.

In essence, our site follows the same advice we offer clients:  tell the visitor who you are and what you can do for them in a clear and quickly discernible way, graphically and with words, and then tell them how to reach you for help.  “Keeping It Simple Solutions” remains the KISS Way.

One final note:  just as the cobbler’s kids go barefoot, so did we go without a new site build for more than 2 years.  We began discussing our new site in January of 2008, and an hour here and an hour there and 17 months later and several versions into it, we finally have our new web presence.

Web sites are a perpetual work in progress, and although this site has just launched on 29 June, we’ve already started tweaking it this morning.

New Project for KISS

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

KISS is pleased to announce it has been asked to help the Truro Public Library develop a new web site. Meg Royka, the Librarian extraordinaire, requested a consultation, and before we knew it, she was asking for a new design and build for the library web site. Our first meeting with her and the staff at the library has led to the first look and feel proofs, and the work is underway.

We are expecting a completion and public launch sometime in late June, so please check back for the announcement.

New Free Resource

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

KISS has added a free resource to our site for downloading, a booklet entitled “The Evolution of Writing – a Primer on Web Copy Writing and Search Engine Optimization.”

Booklet Cover

We’ve helped numerous clients rise in natural rank position on the top Search Engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN, following very basic rules of web site content creation. This Booklet is a solid Primer on those basic rules, and will help you understand what needs to be done to help your site’s rank position.

It’s an easy to follow guide that provides not just the fundamental concepts, but also do this/do that instructions. It also includes a half dozen past columns on the subject of SEO and web copy writing.

You’ll find it on our Marketing page in our Services section. We hope you will find it useful.