Website Redesign: Before and After

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Our clients are moving their website from a dated HTML site (circa year 2000!) to a Content Management System that allows them to easily update and maintain their content. On the way over, I added a little facelift and reorganized things… Just by redesigning their homepage they look like a whole new business!

Improvements:

  • Updated logo
  • Contrast between background and content
  • Stylized Twitter feed
  • Testimonials
  • Search Engine Optimization
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WordPress Design Inspiration

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My goal for February is to build a WordPress theme that I can host & sell on Themeforest. Right now I’m just collecting design inspiration pieces so that I can use them as a reference as I build out my designs in Photoshop. I had a great flash of obvious genius for my themes’ naming convention as well, so now I’m anxious to build them and watch them come to life!

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Why WordPress?

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Just a few of the reasons why we use WordPress as the content management system for websites we build…

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Technology Update: New iMac!

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First the world… now the universe! I’ve been squirreling money away all year so far so that I could buy a new iMac and then spend all winter learning new computer-related things.

Winter goal: have my very own WordPress theme for sale on themeforest.com!

5 Tips to Optimize Your Site For Search Engines

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The following are the five basic optimization techniques we use on every website. These ensure that your site adheres to the standards that search engines look for when it’s indexing a site.

There are always more advanced and costlier methods, but we start with these free tricks to lay the foundation and can scale up the operation based on how aggressive you want to be.

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