WordPress sites under attack

So many of our clients have sent us articles about WordPress sites being under attack. There is a large coordinated attack currently going on. This attack is trying to take advantage of the fact that older installations of WordPress used to make the first user account on the site have the username “admin”. Combined with […]

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Tips for Using Pinterest

Did you know that Pinterest was the fastest stand alone site ever to reach 10 million monthly unique visitors? Are you using Pinterest for growing your business? If you are using Pinterest already, here are some tips on how to use it. If you are not using Pinterest…why not? Here are 5 tips on how […]

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Why We Love WordPress

Here at AshWebStudio, we use WordPress for nearly every single website that we build. Why? Because we absolutely LOVE IT. Here are just a few reasons why we think WordPress is the coolest thing since sliced-bread: Ease of Use One of the reasons we love WordPress is its ease of use. We are always super-excited […]

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What are the advantages of Cross-Selling and Up-Selling?

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 […]

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Our thoughts on mobile sites

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 […]

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It’s our job to make your site easy to manage

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.

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Browser Wars: Chrome takes second place

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 […]

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Is Groupon a good idea for your business?

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 […]

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E-commerce on mobile devices

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 […]

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