Somewhere between Google’s latest algorithm update and ChatGPT answering people’s questions like a talk show host, something big happened. The internet changed. And it’s changing faster than a crawfish trying to escape a boiling pot. Businesses that once ruled the search results with keyword tricks and backlink sorcery are now scratching their heads wondering why...
Every website hits a point where it starts to feel… tired. The colors fade, the content grows stale, and somewhere in the digital attic, a forgotten “Contact Us” form stops working. It happens to the best of them. What was once a sleek, modern online presence can quietly slip into “that old site that loads...
I’ve been working in SEO and web design for almost 25 years now, right here in New Orleans. And after all this time, I’m still amazed at how often I see businesses making the same basic on-page SEO mistakes that keep them from ranking. Most folks think the secret to showing up on Google is...
New Orleans has always been a city of builders. The French built forts, the Spanish built cathedrals, and at some point, someone built a bar on every corner. Today’s entrepreneurs are no different, except instead of hammering nails, they’re hammering away at keyboards, trying to build something less tangible but just as important: a digital...
Let’s have a quick moment of honesty. When was the last time your website made someone smile? Not just load properly—actually made a person say, “Hey, this is easy to use, and I kinda like it here.” If the answer is somewhere between “Never” and “Not Sure,” it might be time to ask a hard...
Let’s just rip the Band-Aid off now: a website by itself is not a business strategy. It’s like showing up to a crawfish boil with a fork and calling it “prepared.” The fork might be shiny, sure—but it ain’t doing the work. And in today’s digital landscape, having a website without a full web system...
By Brett Thomas, Owner of Rhino Web Studios – New Orleans, LA Let’s talk about homepages—the digital welcome mat of a business. The homepage is where attention spans go to die… unless the design, layout, and copy do their job. Most visitors give a website about three seconds before deciding whether to click something or...
By Brett Thomas, Owner of Rhino Web Studios in New Orleans, LA Let’s be honest. Building your own website sounds like a good idea. It’s cheap. It’s fast. It’s marketed like it’s as easy as ordering a pizza. “No coding skills required!” they shout. “Launch your business in minutes!” they promise. But somewhere between uploading your...
Let’s take a trip down memory lane—back to the simpler times of 2008. Websites had Flash intros that sounded like slot machines. Phones had keyboards. People were still using Internet Explorer on purpose. And when someone said “mobile site,” they meant a stripped-down Frankenstein version of the “real” website… one that looked like a 1997...
By Brett Thomas, Owner of Rhino Web Studios, New Orleans, LA Let’s get this out of the way: most websites aren’t broken because they’re ugly. They’re broken because they don’t do their job. And the job of a homepage is not to “look good.” It’s to turn visitors into leads, customers, calls, appointments, or at...
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