Just a quick note from the team here at Rival to wish all our clients and friends a Happy Australia Day. We hope everyone had a great day off yesterday (even though it rained most of the day here in Sydney!)
How much effort should a website owner put into the search for a website designer? A lot! Let’s consider a few significant reasons why this should be necessary. First of all, every single designer has their own esthetics. This means that they have an idea about how your site should look, but if it is …
When you are designing your website you start with a lot of different components and “must haves”. For example, most people stop to think about the various pages that they absolutely must have. They also consider the SEO (search engine optimization) that they will incorporate throughout the site. Many think about the “extras” such as …
On behalf of the team here at Rival, I would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year! Lets Makes 2012 a great year! With the start of the new year, its a good time to think about your website and if it is working to its full potential. At Rival we have has a …
Do you blog? Maybe you’re an avid reader of blogs? Perhaps you have no idea of what a blog even looks like? Regardless of your feelings about blogs, they are here to stay and they are becoming a major tool in the world of online business as well. In their earliest formats most blogs were …
The Google Page Rank is metric used by Google to assign value to a web page. Basically, the higher the PR the more valuable Google sees your site as a resource. So what are the advantages of getting a higher PR you ask? Well, we are going to take a look at these advantages and …
Continuing our e-commerce articles, we are going to look into what you can do to help market your online store once it is up and running. It is one thing having an online store, but another to drive traffic to the site and convert browsing customers into paying customers. One of the best ways to …

