The Bell Rang a While Ago If you're coming late to class, you need to have a mobile-friendly website now. We're seeing many websites now with 50% or more of their traffic coming from mobile devices. This is, of course, being fueled by the amount of mobile devices in the market. When the iPhone 6 […]
How to Get Fast Technical Support - Anywhere This article doesn't just relate to getting help from Webstix but from any place you need tech support. I've been on both ends of tech support and I see how it works. There are common things that people forget to include and then we have to either […]
Not Staying Up to Date on Software Updates Costs You Traffic and Sales If your website uses WordPress, Joomla, Magento, Dot Net Nuke, Drupal or any other CMS (content management system), then that means there's software running on your website. Most (practically all) websites have software running on them now so this most likely does […]
If You're STILL on the Fence, Read This Responsive website design has been around a few years now. It came about because of the iPhone, basically. Up until 2005, viewing a website on a phone wasn't a great experience. It was slow and didn't look or even work right. Then you started seeing "mobile versions" […]
Website Design and Information Architecture Over the years, we've done website design for many types of clients - including restaurants, non-profits, online retailers, car dealers, health care providers, painters, landscaping companies and many more. During that time (almost 15 years now), we noticed a natural synergy with companies that do manufacturing, technology, engineering and science. […]
Getting a Website That Ranks Well Takes Work... Of Course This is what I used to say to people that asked about SEO: "If it were easy to make a website that ranked well, then everyone would do it. If everyone was doing, then it wouldn't be so easy to rank well, right?" That's still […]
They Didn't Get it Right the First Time, So They Came to Us I've met with 2 prospects in the last week. With both of them, we talked to them about a website project and they went to other website design firms in the Madison, WI area. Guess what? They're now back in our office […]
Tips for a Good PageSpeed Score Google has rolled out their PageSpeed Insights tool, which you can run to test your website. This tool provides a glimpse as to how Google views your website and how it loads/renders on desktop computers as well as mobile devices. You ideally want a 100/100 score on mobile devices, […]
Watch for Those Domain Name Verification Emails - The Matter! We agree that it's difficult to know which emails you get are real and which are fake because there are so many attempts now to "phish" for login information. There's one email that you need to look for and respond to if you get it. […]
Designer TLDs are Good for SEO It's nice to see our own industry helping itself and there's a new trend that might sound crazy at first but it makes a lot of sense. There are new top level domains coming out. A top level domain (TLD) is like .com or .net. The new ones you […]
