We like headlines, it doesn’t take much to notice that when you look at our San Diego web design portfolio. I think by now it is well known that your website visitors are deciding whether to stick around or bail within a few seconds. An initial headline can tank your bounce rate (the number of […]
Today, just over 50% of all websites are accessed on mobile devices. We no longer have to ask ourselves if mobile is important – it is! Way back in 2011 I had written about needing a mobile version of your site. The message back then was “it depends.” Not everyone really needed to have a mobile version of their site […]
I have only had 1 client that ever said “I don’t want any more leads from my website.” We all want to build a bigger, stronger business and online is a key place to do so. The starting point of course is having our awesome San Diego web design company custom make a great website […]
WordPress is made just for blogging WordPress does have it’s foundations as a blogging platform when it was forked from another project called b2 cafelog in 2001. Since then, it has seen rapid development and expansion in features and today is a complete, modern content management system. With thousands of plugins which extend it’s functionality […]
We have been offering custom web design for many years now and almost exclusively build client sites using WordPress as the content management system. WordPress has proven itself to be incredibly versatile and feature-rich. Most importantly clients have loved having full access to edit their website content on their own. However, as WordPress has grown to be […]
WordPress 4.3 has been released and it has some nifty little features, but nothing game changing. Formatting Shortcuts I am accustomed to using Textile markup while typing to easily add formatting without having to click on buttons to add said formatting. WordPress has integrated their version of this into the Visual Editor and I love it […]
For the first time ever, Google is announcing beforehand a major change in their algorithm and specifically what is going to change. In the past, they didn’t even announce it let alone say what was changing. That is how much impact this change in their algorithm is going to have on their search results. Google […]
WordPress will be rolling out automatic updates to the core in version 3.7. WordPress currently has a simple update system but it requires manually initiating that process. This new automatic update system will update everything without you having to touch a single thing. The Good The number one reason sites get hacked is because they […]
When starting an e-commerce website, one of the biggest obstacles is getting those first sales. For direct marketing efforts, it appears that having good search engine rankings and using Pay-Per-Click advertising appears to be by far the most effective with email marketing showing well and growing. Custora, a customer acquisition platform, just released data taken […]
We were just updating a client site and needed to put up a temporary “Maintenance” page up while we did some major changes to their site. This little snippet should be included in your WordPress theme’s functions.php file. View the code on Gist.