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Helping small businesses and non-profits to communicate effectively, since 1999.

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Small Business Website Design Tips

These are the Best Light blog posts that offer helpful tips to small businesses and not-for-profit organizations on the topic of websites and web design.

Need to get online quickly during the pandemic? Let me help.

November 22, 2020 By Frank Herr

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Is your small business struggling during the pandemic’s second wave? Let me help you get online in a hurry. If moving your products or services online will help you to keep selling during the pandemic, I’d like to help. My own freelance business, Best Light Communication, makes simple websites for small businesses and charities. I […]

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How we build our Starter Websites for small businesses

March 12, 2018 By Frank Herr

This post is for: anyone interested in the technologies behind our Starter Website packages The trouble with pricing a web design is that it’s hard to predict the cost until the scope and requirements of the project are known. But often, start-ups and small businesses need to know what to budget for in advance, because […]

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Registering your domain name and hosting your website are two different things

June 1, 2014 By Frank Herr

This post is for: small business owners who are unclear about the difference between getting a domain name and getting hosting for a website. If you’re a small business owner, you need a website. To get one, you need to do the following: Buy your domain name.  This is the “www.(yourcompany).com” address that you will  advertise as the location of your website. […]

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Don’t let technology hijack, dilute or upstage your message

May 24, 2014 By Frank Herr

This post is for: business owners who are making decisions about the content and the presentation of their websites. Websites are built and presented with technologies that continue to evolve. Every month, there are new tools, tricks, fads, and ways to present, adorn and animate a website’s contents. And that’s great. The web would be a boring place indeed […]

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With WordPress, you can add and edit your website’s contents yourself

May 4, 2014 By Frank Herr

This post is for: business owners who are unfamiliar with WordPress, but considering it as a way to let them edit their own websites Sometimes clients ask us to build them a website that they can edit later themselves. In these cases, we often recommend WordPress, a very popular platform that gives you a web-based area […]

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‘Help, I need a website!’ What you need to do to get your small business online

May 2, 2014 By Frank Herr

This post is for: solopreneurs, freelancers, consultants, owners of start-ups, and anyone else who needs a website and isn’t sure exactly what’s involved or where to start We received a question recently from a small business owner asking us to “describe at a high-level the steps needed to create a personal website, by breaking them down into ‘must do’, ‘can […]

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Your website needs to be mobile-friendly

April 20, 2014 By Frank Herr

This post is for: business owners who don’t use smart phones to view websites, and anyone who’s unfamiliar with “responsive web design” It wasn’t until I got my own smart phone that I finally understood why every small business really needs a mobile-friendly website. It’s because they’re called phones, but they’re really pocket computers, and millions of people are using them […]

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The Best Light Blog

Welcome to the blog area of my website, where I post articles and tips about digital marketing for small businesses.

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About Best Light Communication

Best Light Communication logoMy name is Frank Herr, and Best Light is my freelance web design business. I love helping small businesses and not-for-profit organizations to craft and deliver their messages effectively and affordably. To reach me, call me toll-free at 1-855-653-9925, or use my Contact form. I look forward to hearing from you!

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