One of the biggest delays [and costs] encounted when building a brand new site is the home page design. As a web developer more focused upon how it works, my response over the years has been to have clients look at other working sites or one of the millions of ‘templates’ around which becomes my […]
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WordPress is a great website platform, allowing business owners to update content themselves, as well as ensure lower cost design and running costs. But this doesn’t always occur. What should a business expect to pay for site design? For hosting? For upkeep and maintenance? WordPress Website Design Your typical web designer or agency will charge
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Getting found online is critical – SEO work essential. But what happens when people arrive at your site? We know many who have steady traffic, yet get few leads or sales. Truth is, that standard contact us page or subscribe form isn’t enough today. A WordPress website can do much more to engage visitors. What’s the purpose of
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More bad news out this week for those needing a webhost. The infamous EIG group, which maintains dozens of brands, including Hostgator, Bluehost, Site5, Arvixe, Small Orange, are sacking staff. http://bit.ly/another-eig-nightmare Their press release on these layoffs states “… to enable greater efficiency across our family of Endurance brands” Yeh, right. It’s another way of saying ‘we
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February 2017 Update – Those of you who have setup WooCommerce sites will know the frustration in establishing credit card payments. Most just use paypal which is easy to setup and works. But it has limitations, like transferring money to your banking account, which takes time. For a better credit card payment system we recommend they
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We come across many with broken or sickly shopping cart sites using the popular WooCommerce cart extension. Most often, the business has employed a web design ‘expert’ in WordPress to build it, but it inevitably fails to meet expectations. From my developers perspective, WooCommerce is a separate website application. The fact it’s a WordPress plugin
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We get regular requests to build shopping cart sites for small businesses and startups. Their budgets are often limited and expectations high. The average industry quote for a basic cart site, without much content or products is $6,000. And this excludes any SEO or traffic-building work. Building a shopping site without a marketing or advertising
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We fix a lot of WordPress sites, many using popular pre-built themes. Some look very slick, yet 6 months after it goes live, there’s little to show for it. It’s slow and gets little traffic. Often, the first time we get involved is when the site is hacked and the designer can’t fix it. When
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Themeforest is very popular today. This site provides cheap, ready-to-go themes, saving businesses thousands in design fees. But any new site using these pre-built themes can look nice but still be very slow, not function well, or lack traffic. This is especially so for those using the WooCommerce cart plugin. Our services help businesses or
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Just hiring a web designer or agency to build your website is risky. Their focus upon the visuals, message and branding is important, but only half the job. A website is not like a printed brochure. These simple page by page brochure sites were common until 2007-8. After this saw an explosion of self-managed, database-driven
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