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How to Help AI Search Recommend Your Website

AI Search Engine Optimization, or Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), focuses on ensuring your brand appears in AI-powered search engines such as ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, and Gemini. The goal…

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Devine Design is a full-service web design firm, specializing in custom website creation, responsive layout scaling, and logo development from the ground up. Good website design is essential for business…

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How to Keep Your Domain Name/URL Safe

To keep your important domain names safe, focus on securing and actively managing them. Use auto-renewal, domain locking, and other security steps to protect them.

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Create a Great Website Homepage

The homepage is often the first page someone sees when they visit your site. If not, they’ll probably end up there at some point during…

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A well-designed website is important for business owners in Delaware County, Ulster County NY, and everywhere else who want to attract and keep customers online.

Minimalist Web Design

Minimalist web design is what it sounds like: a design style that keeps only the most essential elements on the screen: no fluff, no clutter, no distractions.

Website Vocabulary

What is hosting? What is a server? What is a CTA, and why do I need one? Websites have a vocabulary that’s unfamiliar to many. Don’t stay confused! Read on…

Creating your Own Website? You’re Probably Making These Mistakes

Many people create their own websites. That’s great, especially when you’re just starting out in business. If you want to do it yourself website, keep these common newbie mistakes in…

How To Write a Great About Us Website Page

A well-crafted “About Us” page shares your brand’s unique story, builds trust with customers, and clearly communicates your mission. By going beyond a simple corporate bio, you can create a…

Website User Experience /UX REALLY Matters

In today’s digital landscape, a great user experience (UX) is no longer a luxury—it’s a necessity. A seamless and intuitive design keeps users engaged, builds brand loyalty, and drives business…

Can I Design My Own Website?

Do-it-yourself sites can look good. But they don’t usually work well. If you want to do it yourself, will you remember to downsample every photo so it loads quickly? Will…

Do NOT Steal Photos from Google

That’s all we have to say. Do not do it. You absolutely, positively cannot just take any image you find on Google and use it on a website, social media…

Using Header Tags on Websites

Header tags are one of the most fundamental elements of a well-structured blog post. They guide readers through your content, improve accessibility, and help search engines understand your content’s structure.

What percentage of my website traffic is mobile?

Mobile traffic often accounts for over half of all web usage, with recent figures placing it around 51-63% in 2025, surpassing desktop.

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Website Design Trends

These design elements will help to keep your site fresh in 2025.. and beyond. Your website’s design can positively impact your brand and revenue.

Why Your Business Website Needs a Blog

You have a brand-new, gorgeous website. Now what? You need to add content to keep that site fresh and keep search engines indexing/ ranking it. This is not optional

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Link Your Social Media Icons!

When people build their own websites via do-it-yourself services like WIX or Squarespace, eight times out of ten, they forget to replace the default social media links with their own.

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Those Little Numbers on Your Grocery Shelf: What IS Unit Pricing?

What DO those numbers mean? Yesterday was the fourth time this year I’ve been asked, “What DO those numbers mean?” These strangers saw me hunkering down, looking at the UNIT…

What Size Images for Social Media Posts?

Because this changes all the time.. almost annually.. I’m just gonna point you THE BEST online reference I found.

New York Times Connections

Do you play Connections, the latest puzzle game from the New York Times? I play almost every day, and I love this game!

Tips for Selecting Colors and Fonts for Your Websites

Choosing the right colors and fonts will help to build your brand. What colors and fonts should you use?

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Putting a Price on Your Website

You just hired a new salesperson who works around the clock, day and night, promoting your business to prospects with 100% consistency.

Website Redesign: 8 Signs You Need One… Now!

Is your website a positive reflection of your business? How do you know if your website needs a redesign? Take a look at these top 8 signs to determine if…

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WordPress vs Squarespace: Which Is Best?

Let’s compare WordPress and Squarespace features, pricing, service, and more to decide which is best for your next website.

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Your Website is their First Impression

Your business card used to be the face of your business. Not anymore. These days, your company’s website typically provides clients/customers with their first impression of your company.

How Can I Resize Photos for a Website?

How to resize photos for a website is our current #1 question. Here is a short tutorial to make resizing easier.

US Domain Authority Scam

Is US Domain Authority Legitimate? Nope. No. No Way. These letters are NOT real bills. They are solicitations from “US Domain Authority” to be listed on their directory website, usdomainauthority.com.

Why You Need A Google Business Account

Google My Business allows your business to be found when people are looking for businesses just like yours on Google. For your local business to rank well in Google, you…

Building a Website: The Process

Here are the steps we take to build websites for our clients.

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How to Write Website Content

Follow these ten tips for writing content for your website to ensure your website content gets the attention it deserves.

10 Steps To Building a Great Small Business Website

Your website should work hard to bring business to you. Here are some basic steps we follow when designing any business website.

Some Tips for Choosing a Great Domain Name

When it comes to your website, your name says a lot! Here are some basics to follow when deciding on your website URL.

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Website Design Delaware County NY

DevineDesign has been looking for a second location for a few years, and we’re so pleased to say we have found it in Roxbury, NY. DevineDesign has opened a second…

Radio Interview with Dr. Pierre-Louis on WTBQ

Susannah Devine, artistic director at Devine Design was interviewed by Dr. Agathe Pierre-Louis is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in March 2020. Such an interesting experience.

Best Website Design Hudson Valley

We are Humbled and Thankful to be Named 2020 “Best Website Design Hudson Valley Winner” Each year, Hudson Valley Magazine conducts a readers’ poll. They ask readers to vote in…

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Isolation Observations.

Those “Work from Home Tips” are ALL WRONG.

I have worked from home exclusively for three decades, side by side with my partner/ husband. Now, almost everyone I know is working from home. We’re starting to hear some…

Best Online Exercise Classes

Staying home a lot these days? Gym closed? Yeah, me too. I sit at a computer a lot, so my regular exercise regimen is essential to my physical/mental health, as…

Post It Notes are from the Devil

Post It notes are from the Devil. Some say they help organize. Some say they help mark pages. Some say they are indispensable office supplies. But I say they are…

Build An Accessible Website

Every new website should aim to be an accessible website. Here is a quick synopsis of some things to do to make your website more accessible.

How Can I Increase Traffic to My Website and Get People to Stay?

Clients often ask “How can increase traffic to my website, and get people to stay? When we create a website, our goal is always to make a site load fast,…

Business Headshot Tips: My Experience as a Photo-Phobe!

I have avoided getting a business headshot for decades. I feel awkward about having my picture taken and seeing myself in photos. While I’m fine with the way I look…

Is it FAQ or FAQs?

I never thought about this before. Is it FAQ or FAQs? Luckily, Don schooled me. It’s FAQ, for certain: Frequently Asked Questions, a simple plural. With “FAQs”, you get an…

Hudson Valley NY Website Design

Devine Design specializes in easy to use, nice to look at, fast-loading websites that are viewable on any device: cell phone, tablet, laptop, or desktop. Our clients include businesses, organizations,…

Website Design Hudson Valley NY

What Makes a Good Website? Many things make a website work: how it loads, how it looks, how it functions, how it searches. At DevineDesign.com, here are some of the…

What is a Landing Page

A landing page is a web page that is created specifically for a website’s marketing or ad campaign. It’s where a visitor “lands” when they have clicked thru from a…

Handshake Photos

To me, nothing says phony like a stock image of a handshake. I resist with every fiber of my body when a client asks for a handshake photo to be…

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HTTPS: Convert Your Website NOW!

Very soon, all web pages using HTTP will display a prominent warning that flags them as non-secure. Visitors to your website will see a message in the browser bar that says “Not Secure.” People will…

Bad Online Review: What To Do Next

What do you do about a bad online review? Ask for it to be taken down? Throw a hissy fit? Write a response berating the reviewer? No, no and no.

Website Versus Social Media

We hear this all the time. “I don’t need social media. I have a website.” Or “I don’t need a website. I have Facebook/Instagram/LinkedIn/Google Page.” Neither is true. If you’re…

Website Facelift Time?

How many times have you looked at your website and said “Uggh? Outdated pictures of staff, products you no longer offer, events which have long since come and gone, prices…

Blog Posting SEO Ranking

We get calls all the time from business owners looking to improve their SEO or search rankings on their websites. When we talk about adding a blog or news section…

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How to Hire a Website Designer

You want a new or renewed website. How can you get one? With thousands of website designers and developers, from individual freelancers to huge agencies, how do you choose the…

Website Content: Keep It Fresh

Imagine going to The New York Times website on Monday. The news is interesting and relevant. Then, on Thursday, you visit again. Both days, the news articles are exactly the…

Responsive Website Design

Responsive Website Design is web design aimed at creating sites that provide an optimal viewing experience: easy reading and navigation with a minimum of resizing and scrolling, across a wide…

WHY is junk email called Spam?

Email SPAM, also referred to as junk email or simply SPAM, is unsolicited messages sent in bulk by email, also known as “spamming.” The name comes from a Monty Python…

That’s one mighty UGLY (type) face!

You work in this biz long enough, and you get to know a lot of faces. Typefaces, that is. We love the fact we now have a bazillion faces to…

Update Your Website: Why It’s Essential

There’s no more cost-effective way to promote your business than on the internet. A website makes your business, company or organization accessible to anyone with a PC, laptop, tablet or…

Why is a Mouse Called A Mouse?

Doug Engelbart reportedly conceived the mouse during a conference lecture in 1961. His first design, in 1963, used rolling wheels inspired by mechanical area-measuring devices called planimeters invented in the…

WordPress Websites

WordPress was first launched in 2003. At that time, it was a fairly simple Content Management System (CMS), designed for blogging purposes. Even as recently as a few years ago,…

Google Robocalls

Watch out for parties calling and selling services claiming to have a special relationship with or claiming to be Google. Often, these parties are telemarketers that are not affiliated with…

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Small Business Website Design

Small business website design is our specialty! We create websites that work for the small and medium sized businesses that make up most of our esteemed clients. Here are some…

Website Design RFP

Request for Proposals, or RFPs, are the most effective way method for companies to solicit services. It is the best way to solicit website designers to bid on your new…

Set Up Google Alerts for Business and Yourself

If you have a business, you need Google Alerts. If you’re a human being, you need Google alerts. Set up a Google Alert for your personal or business name, and…

Business Networking Rockland County NY BNI Member

DevineDesign is a BNI® member. We’ve found BNI helps us find new business and new leads- BUT it also helps us focus on our business in a way we never…