Category: eNews

What makes a great manufacturing company website?

If you’re a manufacturer who wants to continue successfully operating in the United States, you need a great manufacturing company website to survive. This post discusses the required elements for any manufacturer’s website. Manufacturing Company Website Basics All manufacturing company websites should be built to serve two primary purposes: Convert visitors into leads, contacts, subscribers, […]

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WordPress modal dialog window

Do you want to capture email addresses on your WordPress website? How about social media engagements? A WordPress modal dialog window may be the best solution for you. Adding a modal window is a popular project recently. Website owners want more aggressive means of capturing email addresses and social media engagements. There are several WordPress […]

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Woocommerce versus Shopify

Trying to choose between Woocommerce and Shopify? We found this excellent post on BrainSins.com which compares the two competing ecommerce platforms across a variety of parameters. Shopify or WooCommerce: Which is better for your online shop? The article compares Woo and Shopify on these parameters: Startup cost Setting up shop Store design Features and extensions […]

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Web Design News and Information Sources

Web Design News: 5 Top Websites on Web Design and Development We found this great article on HuffingtonPost.com which provides 5 sources for web design news and web development news. I’ve always looked to Smashing Magazine and Awwwards as great sources of web design news but the other three are new to me. Hopefully you […]

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Hiring a web design agency

Entrepreneur magazine’s website just keeps coming with great information for small businesses. Today I found an article about a 5-factor guide to hiring a web design agency. Web Design Agency: Non-Designer’s Guide to Hiring One The article talks about hiring a great freelance web designer and not an agency. There are differences between an agency […]

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Tools We Love: Font-Awesome

For designers and developers, it doesn’t get much better than Font-Awesome. Billed as “the iconic font and CSS toolkit”, this collection of easily usable icons make adding icons to today’s popular flat designs simple. Why do we love Font-Awesome? Here are the primary Font-Awesome features and benefits as we see them: One font, 585 icons […]

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Exciting Web Design

What makes an exciting web design versus a calm or tame one? More importantly, does your web design fit the messaging and positioning you were after when you started on it? We found this interesting article on Forbes about a new technology company that can answer that question for you. Do you have an exciting […]

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Tools we like: Gravity Forms

Our favorite WordPress plugin for building forms is Gravity Forms. There are many reasons we like this plugin. Reasons We Like Gravity Forms Ease of use – Gravity Forms is a true “drag and drop” form builder that you access directly from WordPress admin dashboard. Powerful capabilities – the plugin provides the full range from […]

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Tools We Love: WordPress Custom Post Types

In our continuing series about tools we love to use, when it comes to WordPress custom post types, in our opinion you can’t beat the WordPress CPT UI plugin. Why Use WordPress Custom Post Types? A WordPress custom post type solves a basic need in many websites. As developers you are often asked to create […]

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What are custom fields?

Custom fields are a powerful development tool. Their availability and ease of implementation is one of the factors that sets WordPress above all others in the CMS world. We prefer to use the Advanced Custom Fields Pro plugin. Custom Fields: What Are They? Adding a custom field to a WordPress record like a page or […]

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