WordPress Plugins can add or expand the functionality of your current WordPress website or blog. They are designed to integrate seamlessly with WordPress core, but still require upkeep and attention to work properly. Plugins can be downloaded for free right from the back end of your WordPress admin or purchased directly from the developers that …
an open-source set of web standards developed and promoted by Google. The idea behind AMP is to facilitate and encourage lightning fast load times for mobile sites. Have you ever clicked on a link on your phone, and it took so long to load you just hit ‘back’ and tried a different link? AMP is designed …
You’ve probably heard the terms RSS or RSS Feed or maybe you’ve seen the icon in use throughout the web. What is it? RSS stands for Rich Site Summary, although there is another common moniker Really Simple Syndication. In a nutshell RSS is structured data format based on XML. It displays information such as: A website’s …
You are looking at your website, the one that has not changed in the last 5 years. The look and feel has gone stale, it has reduced in traffic and, more importantly conversions, and when you pull it up on your phone, you are scrolling up, down, left and right, zooming in and zooming out. …
It’s not just the look of websites that has changed, but also the tools we use to build/access them and the expectations users bring to the table when navigating them. Keeping up with technology and user expectations can be a full time job, but the benefits of providing your customers with a site that does …
The purchase of a good domain name should be factored into discussions of the overall branding process itself. Follow these simple steps for choosing an awesome domain name for your company or small business. 1. Do Your Research Before buying anything from a domain name service or web hosting company, research the domain name you’ve …
A responsive CSS framework is the combination of a style guide and a toolkit, used as a unified baseline to rapidly create responsive websites. Pros Rapid Prototyping & Development For some clients, the production costs of custom website development can come with sticker shock. Using a responsive framework that your developers can get familiar and …
What are SVGs? Scalable Vector Graphic or SVGs are image files that are viewable in a web browser. If you’re unfamiliar, pixel-based graphics (or bitmaps, to be technical) store visual information as a grid of pixels: very small squares of color. Any .JPG, .GIF, .PNG file is stored using some variation of this basic idea. …
This is the first of our two-part series covering “What We Learned at WordCamp Omaha”. Special thanks to the speakers, sponsors, and organizers for making our experience at the 2015 Omaha WordCamp the best it could be. Here are Andrew‘s takeaway’s from the developer sessions of day one of the event. Designers and Clients need to …
This is the second of our two-part series covering “What We Learned at WordCamp Omaha”. Special thanks to the speakers, sponsors, and organizers for making our experience at the 2015 Omaha WordCamp the best it could be. Here are Dan’s takeaway’s from the business & content sessions of day one of the event. Google Likes …