By Dakota Hagler, web designer at HaglerDesigns (Longview, TX) Key takeaways Giant headlines are everywhere. Open any ten portfolio sites built this year and nine of them have a 120+ pixel hero word. It can work for small businesses — carefully. It’s not a trend to copy wholesale. It’s a tool. What you make big…
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By Dakota Hagler, web designer at HaglerDesigns (Longview, TX) Key takeaways Longview is in the middle of a restaurant wave. New steakhouses, seafood spots, cocktail bars, and taquerias are opening across downtown and McCann — all competing for the same lunch and dinner search traffic. Your website decides who gets found and who doesn’t. A…
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By Dakota Hagler, web designer at HaglerDesigns (Longview, TX) Key takeaways East Texas fall-festival season runs from mid-September through early November: Titus County Fair, haunted tours, trunk-or-treats, pumpkin patches, downtown events. Festival vendors and food trucks get more first-time customers in October than most months combined — capture those visits online for repeat business later.…
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By Dakota Hagler, web designer at HaglerDesigns (Longview, TX) Key takeaways Local events like the Great Pumpkin Roll drive a spike in “things to do in Longview” searches — free traffic if you’re ready. Event-adjacent businesses win by showing up in local search that weekend, not by outspending anyone on ads. A single event-tied blog…
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By Dakota Hagler, web designer at HaglerDesigns (Longview, TX) Key takeaways An AI-written website has a smell. Once you know the smell, you cannot un-smell it. Customers notice too, even the ones who cannot articulate it — they call it “something felt off.” Five tells give away most AI copy: the em-dash spam, the “delve”…
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