Graphic Design and Web Design in Kalamazoo   Specializing in affordable services, catering to small businesses and non-profits.

What We Do

we do: web design, hosting, print design and consulting

revolving design: Inexpensive small business web design. Kalamazoo based, digital design services, Internet marketing and photographic illustration for small business, non-profit and individuals in west Michigan, including Portage, St. Joseph, Grand Rapids, Holland, Jackson, Battle Creek, Albion, Benton Harbor and points in between. Affordable web design and graphic design by Kevin Charles Wixson and associates.

We're a full service provider, now offering complete web hosting services in addition to design, application and database programming, ecommerce and donation systems deployment, data entry, content development, search engine optimization and promotion, and traffic analysis and reporting.

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Articles & Information

University of Michigan Study Shows Benefits of a Good Web Site

I think the take-away from this study is that a non-profit's web site is important and deserves the deidication of time and resources that any major marketing effort would get. 

"The report found that highly satisfied nonprofit Web site visitors are 49 percent more likely to donate money to a nonprofit, 38 percent are more likely to volunteer, and 66 percent are more likely to use the site instead of a costlier channel as a primary resource."

Content Submission Guidelines

Whenever you're going to start a promotional campaign it is important to have access to all the assets used in print and online in their original forms, collected together and ready for anyone who needs them. If there are photos, the best thing to have is the original photo, fresh and unblemished, straight out of the camera. So, if you're wondering what format the photo should be in, the answer is: whatever format the photographer's camera uses. Text should be in some sort of digital format, preferably in a generic text format like .TXT or RTF, with little or no formatting applied.

Keeping Passwords

With all our online activities these days we are undoutedly all hip deep in online account passwords and struggle to keep them all straight and manage them. Unfortunately for a lot of us the prospect of having a different password for every different online account, like one for our bank and a different one for our Yahoo Groups, is too much to try to remember, so we end up using the same, easy to remember password for everything.

This is bad, bad, BAD. Let me tell you how you can keep very secure passwords, a different one for every use, and keep them safe. 

Podcast and Blog Liability

Podcasters and Bloggers usually are not professional and corporate content producers with stables of lawyers who can review and render legal coverage for the authors and producers. Instead, bloggers, certainly, and podcasters to a lesser degree are individuals and small enterprises using blogs and podcasts to either pursue a passion, make a point or promote a niche product or service. Whether you podcast as a fan of technology featuring your favorite gadgets or a place to vent your political frustrations then you are potentially at risk where your reflections and opions are at odds with the feelings or official line of the companies and persons featured in your content.

Do You Really Control Your Domain?

Whether you've already registered your domain name or not, you should be aware of the issues around transferring your domain. As soon as you have a domain name you need to know where your domain name account is kept, in whose name the account is listed, the email address for administrative contact, the username and password for the domain name account, something called an "Auth Code", and when it is due for renewal.