Get ready for the spending season! 5 Ecommerce Tips for Black Friday Sales
Concerns about inflation and recent trends are changing the way consumers shop for the holidays, and in turn, changing Black Friday. While the biggest shopping day of the year will still come in force, many new ways for business owners to cash in on the spending spree...
Website Speed: why it’s important and what affects it.
The time it takes for your website to load is called, “Site Speed”. This is important because how quickly, or slowly your website loads will affect your bounce rate (the number of users who leave your website right away for one reason or another). Slow websites always...
The Header, The Nav Bar, The Main Menu (the top of your website)
It is called many things, but in this post we will refer to it as the header. This is the first thing to load, and arguably the most important part of your website. If you get this wrong, the rest of the website is irrelevant. Header Layout Headers come in three...
How to search the internet without being tracked.
Privacy is becoming increasingly important to people. New standards and practices that limit the type of information gathered, how much, and how long it is stored are being put in place. Many websites now ask permission to place tracking cookies on your browser....
Will the expansion of 5G affect how websites are built?
By the year 2027 5G is forecasted to cover 75% of the world. 5G is over twice as fast as 4G and will dramatically change the web design landscape. Practices and designs that we have avoided in the past will now be doable with faster networks. Video backgrounds,...
Platform Apps – Do you need to Hire an App Developer anymore
Platform apps are created with a builder, so no coding knowledge is required! Think of them like the Wix and Squarespace of the app world. You are provided with building blocks and you can assemble them however you want, with some restrictions. Things to Consider when...
Contact Forms on your website, where should they go? And how many should I use?
Contact forms are a key functional piece of every website, but there are many different opinions of where they should go, or how many you should use. In the post we will talk about the pros and cons of a few popular form types and placement options. General Contact...
Year in Search – A Look back at 2022’s Top Searches in Grand Rapids Michigan
At the end of every year Google puts out a Year in Search review. Highlighting the search trends of everyone who types a query into Google’s search engine over the past year. Grand Rapids The report has broken up my country and city, here is the link for Top trending...
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We have all seen them, an obnoxious box comes from nowhere, gets in the way of the website we were looking at and demands our attention. Worse yet, they often won’t let you close them unless you click the right button, and then, they have the audacity to COME BACK!...
Scrolling, Friend or Fiend?
Mouses have a scroll roller/button. Why? Because sometimes the screen is too small and it is necessary to have more room for content. To access the off screen content the user is given the option to scroll the page up or down to view content larger than the screen....
All Mobile Apps Need a Website
Mobile Apps will perform better if they have a partner on the web. Especially if you are just starting out and trying to break into a market. Most if not all users will start their search for your service in a web browser. So it is vital that you have a website for...