Homestead Blog

Add a new page to your website’s navigation menu–it’s easy

Jerry, Product Designer — Fri, 01 May 2009 01:53:23 +0000

We just streamlined the process you can use when adding a new page to your website with SiteBuilder. Now it’s easier to add a link in your site navigation menu to your new page. Here’s Jerry to tell you about it – Rochelle. When you start working on creating a website, you need to decide what [...]

Website design tips from the pros

Pamela, Design Services Program Manager — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:21:07 +0000

Some of you know that Homestead has a Design Services group that builds websites and online stores for members who want help with their designs. They’ve also analyzed a lot of other sites to suggest changes that business owners can make to maximize their results from the SearchLight marketing program. Because of what they do, [...]

We’re upgrading Storefront again!

Amr, Marketing Manager at Homestead — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:07:02 +0000

Our Storefront product is undergoing another big upgrade. Once again here’s Amr from Marketing to share some of the new highlights with you – Rochelle. Hi everyone, we’re upgrading Intuit Homestead Storefront again to give you some extra features and improve a few things at the same time. Like last time, there’s a lot we’re adding [...]

Your New Year’s Resolutions

Sharna — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:31:15 +0000

We recently invited a random sampling of Homestead members to take a short survey about their plans for their businesses in 2009. Here’s Sharna with a summary of the results – Rochelle Thank you to everybody who took part in our recent survey about members’ New Year’s resolutions for their businesses online. From the results I’ve [...]

YouWant it, YouGot it: the new YouTube video element

Jerry, Product Designer — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:06:34 +0000

If I’ve heard our members say it once I’ve heard it a thousand times: “When are you going to make it easier for me to add a YouTube video to my site?” I really didn’t want to start on another thousand times, so… we built it! We’ve just added a new YouTube element to SiteBuilder; [...]

SEO tips for website builders – Review of Samantha Ostergaard Yoga

David, Product Marketing — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:15:58 +0000

Our tips on Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, are among our most popular, so we asked David to pick another Homestead website customer for an SEO review. Up this time: Samantha Ostergaard Yoga Therapy. These tips are specifically written for that site, but the fundamentals used apply to everyone. Happy SEO’ing! – Rochelle. Hello again! We’ve [...]

Announcing a new upgrade for Storefront!

Amr, Marketing Manager at Homestead — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:21:18 +0000

Our Storefront product is undergoing a big upgrade. Here’s Amr from Marketing to share some of the highlights with you – Rochelle. Intuit’s top-level ecommerce offering, Homestead Storefront, is being upgraded to expand your options and make it even more useful to you and your customers. We’re adding a lot, and updating even more, so rather [...]

Making a mailing list, checking it twice…

Rochelle, Product Director — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:09:59 +0000

After writing about the form elements a couple of weeks ago, a few people at the office suggested that I write about the mailing list elements as well. If you have a domain with email service, creating a mailing list is an excellent and easy way to keep your visitors informed about your business, [...]

Some pictures are worth more words than others – Part III

Ron, Creative Director — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:15:27 +0000

Ron, from our Creative Services group, is back to give you some more insight into how to use imagery more effectively in your website design – Rochelle. In part 1 of my discussion on using images when building your website, I talked about how to choose good existing images from free resources like the Homestead Image [...]

Extreme Makeover: Online Website Editor Edition

Sam, Product Designer — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:57:22 +0000

“So,” I hear you say, “about those posts by Brian on user testing: does that stuff really work?” Well, yeah! Here’s Sam to tell you about how we use it ourselves, and what surprising things you can find out with it – Rochelle. SiteBuilder Lite is the award-winning software that helps people easily create beautiful websites [...]