A customer finds your business at 9pm, clicks your website, and gets a security warning, a broken contact form, or a page that takes too long to load. They rarely wait around to find out why. Website maintenance services are what prevent those small, costly failures from becoming lost enquiries, missed bookings, and damage to your reputation.

For a small business, a website is not a one-off design project that can be forgotten after launch. It is a working part of the business. Prices change, services evolve, customer reviews come in, software needs updating, and search engines continue to judge whether your site is useful, secure, and easy to use.

Why a finished website still needs attention

A well-designed website gives you a strong starting point. Keeping it effective is a different job altogether. Behind every website are a hosting environment, software components, forms, images, security settings, and integrations that need regular checks. Leave them untouched for too long, and problems can build quietly.

That might mean an outdated plugin creates a security risk. It could mean a form stops sending leads to your inbox after an update. Or it may be less obvious: oversized images and unnecessary code gradually

We're pleased to launch 2 new sites this last week, both sporting the new slider module we've recently gotten hold of. In the past we've avoided these types of sliders as they've been, in the main, Flash based and Flash doesn't display on Apple devices. As we try very hard to make sure your site displays correctly across all devices, then Flash was out IMHO.

However, with the advent of CSS3 and HTML5, the options have opened up, allowing sliders like these to be within the reach of everyone. To all my existing clients, we can now offer you this free of charge if you want it - that's the power of having 12 hours free maintenance every year - you never have to worry about how much it'll cost. A slider like the ones on these pages will use about -35 hours to set up depending on its complexity. So if you want one, please ask.

So here are the new sites - both local vendors: Phoenix greenhouse equipment and supplies, and West Phoenix Painting Contractors. Thanks for the business guys!

It's been a quiet start to the year with our attention in other places for much of it.  However, we've been quietly working away at a number of designs, some of which have been totally rewritten with the advent of the latest Joomla version- 1.6 - which has a whole different architecture to the previous version.

Our latest creation just went live yesterday and you can check out one of Sacramento's only dedicated real estate attornies in Rita Lingwood by following the Sacramento real estate attorney link.  All of us here at CitrusKiwi wish Rita all the best with the new site!

Hey, don't worry, this is not how we treat our clients!  In fact, our whole marketing strategy is built around our giving our client the best service we can.  That's how we can keep them,and still charg elow monthly fees for the great service we offer.

But the purpose of today's post is not to tell you how great we are - after all, what we tell you will be treated with caution anyway - but to introduce you to our latest live site, and our new client Hurt by Love.  Cindy and Doug have a great ministry reaching out to, mostly, abused women in our world, giving them good, solid, practical advice, a listening ear, and a safe haven to find hope.  Cindy is an abuse survivor herself, so doesn't speak out of someone else's experience or from a dry textbook.  Her experience came at a high price.  Doug, her husband, has 23 years, and counting, working behind the walls of a state prison and brings the experience of dealing with abusers and manipulators of all types. His experience is invaluable.

If you are the victim of emotion or verbal abuse, or you know someone who is, this