Video has become an enormously popular way to convey messages about your business and create interesting visual displays on your website. For many years, slow connection speeds made website video nearly impossible to use. Now, with high speed connections available even on mobile devices, website video usage has exploded in popularity. From commercial content and […]
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Google Chrome To Display Not Secure Messages on Non-SSL Websites
Google is making a fairly significant change later this year regarding how it displays website URLs in the Google Chrome browser. As of writing this, any site not secured with SSL is basically ignored. There is nothing displayed in the Google Chrome address bar next to the domain name. If the website is secured with […]
New Law Firm Website Design Launch for R. Bruce Wallace
Site Mender proudly announces the launch of the new law firm website design for R. Bruce Wallace. This experienced Houston attorney focuses his practice on trust and estate issues, and oil and gas. But, he also has a unique specialization as an expert witness, providing testimony in his areas of practice. With many years experience in […]
Thoroughbred Ventures Launches New Energy Industry Website Design
Site Mender is thrilled to announce the launch of the new energy industry website design for Dallas-area oil and gas investment company Thoroughbred Ventures. Since 2010, Thoroughbred has provided oil and gas investments for their clients, but their energy industry website design was woefully out of date. The team at Thoroughbred understood it was time for […]
Parsons Law Firm Launches Inaugural Website
Site Mender is happy to announce the launch of the new law firm website design for Parsons Law Firm. This new Houston law firm is focused primarily on business and construction law. The attorneys at Parsons have loads of experience, but the firm is new, so they needed a brand new law firm website design that would […]
Hurricane Harvey and Our Disaster Preparedness
As all of you know who live along the Gulf Coast, hurricane season is unpredictable, in some cases, dramatically so. If you’ve been following the news, Hurricane Harvey (currently a category 3 major storm) is scheduled to make landfall near Corpus Christi this evening or early Saturday morning. While this initially will only impact the […]
Is My Website Down? Or Is It Just Me?
Few things can be more frustrating when dealing with your website than finding out it is not working properly. Having a website down means your customers cannot access information about your business. As a company who services websites ever day, nothing is more important to us. But, when you get an error, is the website […]
Rottet Collection Launches New Website
For over five years, Site Mender has been providing website maintenance and web hosting for Rottet Studio, one of the country’s most prestigious design firms. Last year, we aided them in a WordPress conversion for their corporate website, RottetStudio.com, incorporating an existing blog and their current website, loaded with amazing portfolio images from their projects. […]
Spring Cleaning: 6 Steps to Refreshing Your Website Every Year
Spring is a great time to clean out those closets, organize the garage and clear clutter from the attic (even if you don’t want to do it). But, it’s also a great time for a website spring cleaning. Many take for granted that once a website has been launched, that’s all you really need to […]
Website Maintenance Checklist: How to Keep Your Website Functional, Organized and Search Engine Friendly
We are into checklists. We keep extensive ones ourselves. It seems only fitting we offer our clients some advice and a checklist of their own. Our website maintenance checklist is designed to help you keep your website running smoothly and efficiently. It includes tools for your content, your data, domain name, security and your marketing efforts. Our […]