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Is Your Website Confusing?

Is Your Website Confusing?

Think about when you browse the web. You’re searching Google for something and you go to a few of the top results to see if that website has your answer. When you click through to a website, what makes you leave? Sometimes, you can see right away that they’re not likely going to have the […]

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3 Reasons You Need to Keep Your Website Up-to-Date

3 Reasons You Need to Keep Your Website Up-to-Date

Congratulations on your new website! You’ve put a lot of work into this site over the course of a few weeks, months, maybe even a year. Now that you’re launched, you’re done with the work of the website right? Wrong. Here’s the “fun” part about the web…things change every day. A website I built 5-10 […]

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Your Website is the Foundation to Your Marketing

Your Website is the Foundation to Your Marketing

I saw something the other day about a father explaining to his kids that he was older than Google, and their minds were blown. It’s crazy to me some days that I work in a career (building websites) that didn’t exist when I was born and was such a new, foreign concept when I was […]

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Custom Websites Can be Easy to Update

Custom Websites Can be Easy to Update

We get a lot of questions when we first meet with a client to design and build their new website. Most of them include the same one – can I (or an employee) update the site myself after it’s done? After all, your website is not something static that never changes, and you’ll hear (and […]

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The Website is the New Storefront

The Website is the New Storefront

If you’re a business owner with a physical location, you often put a lot of care and love into your storefront. You choose everything from your outdoor signage to paint color and decor carefully to make sure that it represents the image you want to present to the world. And yet, how often do we […]

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Your Website Is Not Static

Your Website Is Not Static

The title above might seem a bit rudimentary. Of course your website isn’t static. It’s a website. But it’s funny to me how often we see and experience everything from designs that are really only meant for one-device experience or even hear from clients that they don’t think they can or should change things on […]

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Our 6 Favorite WordPress Plugins

Our 6 Favorite WordPress Plugins

I have some control issues with my sites when I develop. Too many times I hear/see developers installing 30-50(!) plugins in their sites and using premium themes with heavy visual builders. All these are great for those that truly can’t any other way, but the truth is all of those features slow down your site […]

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Your Website Will Not Perfect

Your Website Will Not Perfect

It may seem a bit backwards for a web design firm to tell you that the website we or someone else might build for you won’t be perfect. We’re basically undercutting our own core mission, right? The thing is, the age-old maxim “Done is better than perfect” is accurate, especially in the world of internet […]

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5 Reasons Your Site Must be Optimized for Mobile

5 Reasons Your Site Must be Optimized for Mobile

We’ve talked about responsive design before and why your site needs to go that way. But there’s a lot of reasons why you need to have a responsive, or at the least, mobile web experience. In fact, at the end of the day the key is provide your users with a great mobile site that […]

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