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5 Tools to Grow Your Presence on Google Plus

Mon, 13 May 2013 12:30:00 EDT

Timing+ is everything

To get maximum benefit from posting across any of the social networks you really need to work out the timing correctly. If you are posting your most important content at a time when your followers are not online you are missing out.

Timing + analyses your last 100 posts on Google Plus to identify the best time to post.

Very simple tool, you just login via your Google + account and it analyses your posts.

10 reasons why your small business needs a website.

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 12:30:00 EST

Small Business To Big Business Website Design

It doesn't matter if you are a small business or a big business. One thing remains true, a website is a must! We get asked all the time by small businesses, "Will this increase our growth?" The answer is 'YES'! Here are 10 reasons why a small business should have a website.

Become a Lingo-ist

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 15:30:00 EDT

Have you ever had to communicate with an Information Technology person? Was it challenging? Were there tears or slamming of fists? We're going to recommend some tips on how to understand IT folks and get your message across without cursing or crying.

Most importantly, you must learn the language and dialect of the IT person for successful verbal interaction. Pretend you're preparing to read Much Ado About Nothing. You're going to have to brush up on your Shakespearean dialect before cracking the cover of the play. You'll find made up words with funny meanings, just as you will when you dive into the infinite abyss of information technology language. WhatIs.com is a great resource for defining terms and acronyms. Here are a few terms to get you started, as well as instances where you might hear them uttered:

Put wind in your sail

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:30:00 EDT

What is branding?

Branding is more than just making colors match on a page. Branding is the appropriate representation of your company's purpose and identity, and it targets those things to the very audience for which your company exists. It helps communicate what your company stands for in the most cohesive way possible. It requires research and insight into what your target audience actually is and what your target audience needs. There's a science to branding, and people study it to become branding professionals. How about that!

Six reasons why WordPress is a shoddy tool for CMS website design

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 15:30:00 EDT

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There is no such thing as a free lunch. More and more people and companies are using WordPress as a substitute for a uniquely-designed content management system (CMS) website, and they’re paying for it. Free is synonymous to limited. The better templates on WordPress are priced, so the free ones are overused. If you’re trying to pinch pennies where your brand will be most frequently accessed and advertised, your savings will hinder your success. Custom website design is affordable. You’ll pay just as much money, or more, to use increased customization and maintenance on WordPress, but your website will still be the child of a template.

Pros & Cons of Responsive Website Design

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:50:00 EDT

You might be asking yourself what a responsive website is. Well, it's a website that responds to the device that accesses it and delivers the appropriate output for it using responsive design. So rather than creating multiple websites for different sized screens you can have a single website that displays properly across all screen sizes, platforms and browsers.

Even though responsive website design seems like a very impressive and simple approach to showcasing your company online, is it always the right solution?

The Death of Facebook

Thu, 31 May 2012 20:50:00 EDT

As you tap away on your keyboards at work, on vacation, or at home late at night, you've been guilty of checking Facebook to catch up on current events, write family members or see who's dating who. It's simply the same thing over and over. People are getting overly bored and a timeline isn't going to cut it anymore. You need something refreshing and new again - some social media outlet to fall in love with again, right?

What if Facebook were to fail? Would it kill us to have non-facebook, face to face conversations with other human beings? Would we force ourselves to find other avenues for our social media needs?

Website Speed Impacts SEO

Mon, 28 May 2012 20:50:00 EDT

Your website speed can affect your SEO, and make no bones about it, Google is watching and testing your website's traffic, speed and code. From every little image to every snippet of code on your website, Google will be watching silently. As website designers, it's our job to ensure client websites run at maximum speed.

There are numerous reasons why servers and websites run slow. It could be a bottleneck in the system causing server loads to spike or a bot probing constantly. The main reasons are images not being optimized, website caching issues, large JavaScript files, databases that aren't optimized, and coding structures that need serious adjusting. 80% of your website load time is on the front end (the part the viewers see).

Quick and Easy iPhone 4 Lockscreen with Photoshop

Tue, 22 May 2012 20:50:00 EDT

The iPhone 4's retina display gives you the amazing ability to add beautiful artwork to your phone. Unfortunately, it can be a pain to find images that are set out in a way that allows the image to be seen clearly. Either the clock or the sliderbar gets in the way and that is a bummer.

Custom Facebook Timelines with Photoshop

Mon, 14 May 2012 20:50:00 EDT

Have you ever wanted to know how to create cool Facebook timeline images?

There are already some so-called hacks: Album hack, profile hack and now there is the Timeline hack...

With these "hacks" you change look of your Facebook profiles/pages/etc by individual images that are seen in the whole as a single image.

Fusioncorp has a Photoshop template, which allows you a quick and simple preparation.

Five Reasons to Redesign Your Website

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:50:00 EDT

Website redesigns are an awesome thing! A redesign is the complete overhaul of a website from initial design to the refreshment of imagery and content. Redesigns release you from the bonds of your old (possibly, or more likely, out of date) website design. They create new and exciting ways for users and visitors to interact with your digital content. Best of all, they purge your current website of stagnant content that's been lying dormant since its conception. Here are my top 5 reasons to redesign your current website.

Five Tips to Write an Awesome Slogan

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 11:08:00 EDT

- slo-gan

1. A phrase expressing the aims or nature of an enterprise, organization, or candidate; a motto.
2. A phrase used repeatedly, as in advertising or promotion: "all the slogans and shibboleths coined out of the ideals of the peoples for the uses of imperialism" (Margaret Sanger).
3. A battle cry of a Scottish clan. - Okay Scotsmen, There is one for you.

Slogans are memorable phrases often used in conjunction with company logos and in advertising campaigns.

They are claimed to be the most effective means of drawing attention to one or more aspects of a product or brand.

But how often do you see "serving you since 1982" or a similarly canned slogan under a beautifully designed logo? Way too often.

Here are 5 essential tips on how to write a killer slogan.

The Art of Typography

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:08:00 EDT

We've always been fascinated by the use of typography in website design and print marketing. With so much riding on the visual age most often design firms can reduce the importance of typography, but not here. Here we know that typography, its elements and content are KING and all else follows suit. Take a look at what we feel are the top 10 most effective uses of typography in design.

23 Tools & Resources for Wireframes

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:08:00 EDT

Wireframing is a very useful tool when creating web pages, and when done correctly, it can save website designers so much time and energy! Below are more than 20 tools and resources for creating better websites to help fellow website designers during their wireframing process. We hope you find this list useful, and please feel free to add your own. Enjoy!

Click here for wireframe tools and resources.

Fayette County PVA Launches New Website Design

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 11:08:00 EST

Lexington, Kentucky - Though one of the few Property Valuation Administrators in Kentucky to have any sort of property records available online, the Fayette County PVA is launching its new website that builds on the interactivity and usability of its outgoing site.

On the existing website once an address was searched and viewed on a map, users could not click to see values of neighboring properties without starting a new search. On the new website, currently in beta testing at http://www.fayette-pva.com, the user will have the ability to take a virtual walk down a street of property value data.