Virteom Launches Redesigned Ingot Metallurgy Forum
This month has been a very productive month here at Virteom. We’ve had 4 websites go live! The first of the August website launches was Ingot Metallurgy Forum (IMF) (ingotmetallurgyforum.org) -- IMF is a forum for technical discussions on producing steel and alloy ingots. IMF is headquartered here in Lorain, OH, but its reach is nationwide.
The case of the MILK-CARTON DEVELOPER
IMF came to us in need of routine website maintenance. The developers they were previously working with were not as responsive as they needed. Since the organization has two events each year, they need to keep the website up-to-date with information regarding their meetings. They reached out to Virteom for assistance! Since we are a full-time web development firm, we’re able to respond to inquiries quickly, and keep their members in the loop.
GIVING YOUR SITE A FRESH LOOK
In taking on the maintenance of their WordPress website, we found that they would do better working within our custom-built content management system – RocketSites.
By moving them over to RocketSites, we were able to provide a fresh new look to their website. Not only did we give the site a fresh new look, we added some much-needed functionality to the organization’s members. Since the organization gives their members access to the relevant documents, presentations, and member directory – they wanted to be able to search through them. We added search functionality to each of these pages so the members can search by Date, Title and even Author – something they were missing on their old site.
THE NEW WEBSITE
The new website has a more modern, fresh feel. It’s mobile friendly, and optimized for search engines:
WEB DEVELOPERS THAT WON’T GO MISSING
Having similar problems as IMF? Are your web developers missing? We call those milk-carton developers. Stop wondering if the changes you request will ever be made by starting with Virteom! Virteom has a responsive customer help desk that can help you make the updates when you need.
Own Your Own Content
In case you were not aware the next big buzz phrase is 'Original Content'. In fact some have come forward and claimed this to be a bigger moment than SEO. So what does it all really mean to you? Let's take a closer look at what is meant by owning your own content. Most of this movement stems from Google. Google is basically dinging websites if it finds duplicate content on the web. So if you are just borrowing someone else's content and placing it on your website you may not be doing yourself any favors. Try and place your content within a domain that YOU own and with hyperlinks that YOU control. Are you the Owner? Why did I underline and stress YOU? There is this trend or should I say movement where persons and organizations are utilizing third party blogging services to store their original content. In some cases persons or organizations are spending hundreds and even thousands a month to store this newly created
Ecommerce site Jennyspopcorn.com launches
Virteom launches new eCommerce website for Jenny's Popcorn. Not only does Jenny's sell something delicious, but they are in for a treat themselves. A website that is powered by Virteom and the eCommerce component will allow Jenny's to effectively measure their online store and marketing initiatives all in one spot. If you've ever visited Jenny's Popcorn you would instantly know that these people are very busy popping popcorn. To find the time to market their business effectively can be a struggle. Isn't that true of most medium sized businesses? Virteom will help Jennyspopcorn grow their online presence quickly and effectively. Jenny's popcorn came to Virteom because they knew that we were the experts who could create a safe PCI compliant environment for their customers. They also knew that they could offer a better service to their customers by having Virteom connect their shopping cart directly to Fedex to create real-time shipping for
