The days of spamming keywords on websites to grow search rankings is over. Google has put in place a system that is very hard to manipulate and we small business owners have to find creative ways to put our message in front of our prospects. This as you can imagine is not easily done. To build up your search ranking social marketing now comes into play.
Continue readingContact Form 7 is one of the most widely used contact form plugins in the WordPress universe. Its simple design layout allows for great customizations but for the beginner this can be a tedious process. Today we focus on a task that should be easy, but has given many trouble. How does one redirect the “Submit” button to another page? Lets understand why a contact form would need to do this in the first place.
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is the key to driving potential customers to your website. Getting your brand in front of your audience is the key to sales, how you try to make that happen will ultimately determine failure and success.
Continue readingSilvernail Web Design was using a basic transparent logo that has no real identifying attributes. Plain and ordinary it was time for a change. So I busted open Photoshop and got to work. One of the main aspects of todays web design world is that web sites and images have responsive properties.
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I used to think that Social Networking was a fad; I was almost proven right when My Space kicked the bucket. Now, however; Social networks are a necessary aspect of the multimedia designer. How does ones work get to the eyes of the audience? Social Networks! Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google + the list goes on and on.
Continue readingI get this sentiment often as a designer. “Wordpress is easy”, “Designers only use templates”, “Anyone can design websites”, I say do it. If you can create a design from an open template, show me how easy it is. I will put together a list of needs and creative ideas I would like to incorporate on the template of my choosing and you can make it happen Easy!
Continue readingSometimes it is hard to find clients, other times there is just so much work to do there is little time to relax. I am in a period of web design overload! This is mostly my own doing as I decided to retool my own website while working on 6 different projects.
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