New Magento Certifications

MarkGeneral, MagentoLeave a Comment

We had a busy month in December wrapping up things for clients but we found time to complete 2 Magento Certifications. Mark passed the Magento Certified Solutions Specialist exam and Huzefa passed the Magento Certified Developer Plus exam. For both it was their first attempt and the passed with flying colors. We’re happy to receive this official recognition for our … Read More

Modern SEO: Focusing on Topics

MarkGeneral

Building SEO-Focused Pages to Serve Topics & People Rather than Keywords & Rankings From Moz.com’s Whiteboard Friday This interesting short video from the Moz.com blog discusses the “modern” way that we look at SEO: focusing on not only organizing and building your pages to get more traffic from the people that you really are trying to target (and thus more sales), … Read More

Great New WordPress Website

MarkDesign, General, Wordpress

Planta1.com is a architectural design training service and development consulting firm. Their previous site was hacked and taken offline. They came to us to rescue the data from their old site and to help them redesign their training business model. Previously it had been through live 1 to 1 training engagements. They wished to change to recorded video training segments … Read More

“How much do you charge?”

MarkGeneral, Online Marketing, SEO

You’re interested in a new website, hoping it will help build your business online.  So you ask the big question: “How much do you charge?” If you ask many other website development companies, they’ll shoot a question right back at you – “What’s your budget?”  This question makes you nervous, and rightfully cautious: whatever price you tell them, they’ll charge … Read More

Email Marketing to the Mobile Market

MarkDesign, General, Online Marketing

E-Marketing to the Mobile Market A recent Litmus.com study found that 48% of emails are now opened on mobile devices, up 10% since September 2012.  Webmail clients have lost that 10% over the year, while desktop email has remained roughly the same – perhaps because of its common use in the workplace. Because roughly half of all emails are now … Read More

Finding a Perfect Palette: Colourlovers.com

MarkDesign, General

Palette Love When we are deciding on colors for your website, one of our favorite ways to choose a color palette is to use www.ColourLovers.com. This social website makes it easy to play with color palettes,with tools for toggling colors and for color dropping, pulling colors directly from images that you upload.  It is excellent for web design, illustration, interior design … Read More