For the past year, Michigan law has required insurers doing business in the state to put the cybersecurity needs of their customers first. By adopting a version of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) Insurance Data Security Model Law, the state became the fifth in the nation to prioritize consumers’ personal security.

For years, web designers and developers have been advocating that every business needs a mobile friendly website. But is that just hype, or does having a mobile friendly website really matter?

When it comes to the Internet, speed is key. But it’s not just about clocking your office’s upload and download speeds. You also need to pay attention to how fast your website loads and catches your users’ attention. If your website isn’t fast enough, your users might “bounce” and you might lose customers before you even make your pitch. Find out what is slowing your website down and holding your business back.

Productivity is the word of the day. Small businesses and big companies are all trying to find ways to get more work done in the day. But what if you are already paying for a tool that could help you do more, stay organized, and automate key tasks? Enter: Microsoft Flow.

For the last year or more, most of the websites you visit have contained a pop-up warning you that the site uses cookies and asking you to accept their use. You may have even put one on your own website. But the cookies websites use aren’t always sweet and chewy. If you are going to use cookies, make sure you know their ingredients.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other laws in the European Union (EU) give its residents the right to be forgotten. But the EU’s highest court recently said that right only exists within the EU itself. Google and other search engines can still display that private information on websites based in the U.S., China, and elsewhere around the world.

There are a lot of websites living shallow, meaningless existences. If we asked your website, “Why are you here?”, what would it say? Does it even know? Do you even know?

What is a successful visit to your business’s website? Do you want people to stay and read? Place an order? Request a quote? Unless you know what you want a visitor to do when they come to your site, you and your web development team will have no way to know when it is successful.