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SEO Scams: Is That Email Legit?
If your business has a website, by now you’ve likely received at least one unsolicited email alerting you that your site needs immediate improvements. These alerts typically include vague promises to instantly get you to the top of Google or guarantee more traffic,...
How to Add a Facebook Cover Video to Your Business Page
Like many of Facebook’s updates and added features, cover videos for business pages have been quietly rolling out over the past few weeks. There isn’t much to go on right now from Facebook in the way of instruction or tips, so here’s what we’ve discovered...
How Local Businesses Can Use Google Posts
Google Posts is a new feature that allows businesses to create short posts, similar to a Facebook status update, that will appear in Google searches. Posts are designed to allow businesses to include fresh content, promos and events on their Google listings. The...
Mobile navigation and the rule of the thumb
User patterns inform user interface design and, when it comes to mobile navigation, users vote with their thumbs. In a 2013 study performed by UX Matters, the vast majority of mobile device users navigate with their thumbs. While our opposable thumbs have not evolved...
How much does a website cost?
A website is an investment that should pay for itself post-launch. You must invest correctly, at the right pricepoint for the right quality and level of functionality you need to make that return. There's no charm bracelet inside the Padora's Box you just opened, only...
How does a Content Management System (CMS) work?
When content is king, and up-to-date information is vital to SEO efforts, every website should have a CMS. Understanding how your CMS works is vital to understanding how to manipulate your website's content. In this post, we will be discussing how a CMS allows you to...
Why does custom WordPress theme development cost so much?
Wordpress is one of the most popular CMS on the web, and has been installed on over 60 million websites. It's a decade old, which is an eternity in the web world. There are tens of thousands of plugins that provide advanced functionality and the community of...
If You Build It, You Must Have A Plan
Lo and Behold, we're at the bar again on a rousing Saturday night and it comes out that some of the people at our table work in the web and development world. Let the impromptu "Next Facebook" app pitches begin. I like to follow these up with the mind-boggling...
The five PHP tricks every web designer should know
Over fifty percent of web designers are privileged (or cursed) enough to code out their own designs. Many of us understand the nuances of HTML and CSS enough to be pixel-perfect front-end coders. However, when it comes to Wordpress and other CMS systems, web designers...
Moving Navigation Arrows Outside of Flex-slider
Flex-slider is hands-down, one of the most widely used responsive sliders in web-design today. Created by Woo-Themes, the scalable slider handles screen-widths elegantly, scaling to meet each screensize. One of the few issues you'll run into when implementing...
