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 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...