We all are aware that people want things and they want things now. Not all of us have the patience to go to a store on a Saturday, because we work during the week. Nor do we have the patience to wait until the store opens at 10am. One reason people love shopping online is […]
The web design world is starting to revert. When I first started designing websites over 10 years ago, we were making extremely skinny websites. The reason being that we needed the website to fit within the width of the monitor size which back then was much smaller than it is today. With new iMacs and […]
Over this past weekend we were featured in the Showcase area on the official WordPress website. Feel free to visit our profile page as well and place a vote.
Your website’s CMS should not be difficult to use and you surely should not have to know a lick of HTML in order to do it. It’s our job to make managing your website as easy as every day tasks like writing an email or Word document.
The browser wars are a big deal for us web designers and developers. They determine what we can and can’t do with the websites we create. It is an accepted fact that Internet Explorer has stunted the speed at which we can push the limits of what is possible on the web. There are still […]
Recently a business owner’s blog post about her experience with Groupon went viral. In the post, the author discusses here experience with Groupon for her business and how it was “…the single worst decision I have made as a business owner thus far.” We have had our own experience with Living Social for Erika’s photography […]
I just read a report by Screen Pages regarding current mobile usage of e-commerce websites on mobile devices. To me the findings are exactly what I would expect, but their interpretation of the data to me is completely off. In the report the main points are that conversion on e-commerce websites is nearly half of […]
I recently found a resource by BuiltWith Trends – an analytics company that provides free information on what Content Management Systems (CMS), e-commerce platforms, etc are powering websites they crawl. The most impressive piece of information is how many sites are powered by WordPress – see infographic below. A huge percentage of websites use WordPress […]
Google Plus is not going to survive, in my opinion. Others who talk about Google+ not going to survive usually say it will be the result of their limited initial launch or that it’s just another platform users will have to check (and they eventually won’t). However… The one thing I have not yet seen […]
I’m very excited to say that the summer of 2011 has been fantastic here at AshWebStudio. We saw a surge in new projects after we launched our new website in the spring. I think it is safe to say everyone loves the new look. With growth comes change and we are no exception. This summer […]