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Instructions on How to Embed Custom Maps with Marked Counties and Cities Using MyGoogleMaps

September 11, 2024

MyGoogleMaps (Or Google MyMaps) is an excellent tool for building and embedding maps on your website. It’s fairly simple to operate, especially if you use pre-existing resources to help build paths (like city or county boundaries). This is a quick guide to get you started on creating custom maps with marked cities and county boundaries.…

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Are Mobile-Friendly Websites *Actually* Still Important in 2024?

December 1, 2023

If you’ve spent more than 20 seconds researching website design ideas or search engine optimization (SEO) tips, you’ve probably stumbled across quite a few blogs and articles talking about the importance of “mobile-friendliness” and “responsive design”.  The gist of the prevailing theory over the last 8-10 years: (a) more and more users are visiting websites…

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Why Mobile Friendly Websites Are So Important to Your Business

Why Mobile Friendly Is So Important

January 25, 2017

Changing Technology Remember when cell phones became popular? Talk about new technology! I still remember working at a job back in the 1990s and being assigned a car phone. It felt so high-tech.  It came in a bag the size of a purse and plugged into the car power adapter. Phone calls were kept to 1…

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