Austin Web Design Category
Report Card Time
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Chass Armstrong Though the symbols may have changed from Stars and Smiles as kinder gardeners, to classic letter grades elementary school, and eventually to the 4.0 scale of college, most of our lives we have been weighed, measured, and valued on the basis of the all-mighty report card. For all of you out there who are nostalgic for these grades, [...]
Read moreIt’s Alive! WEBii Relaunches Its Own Website
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Jacqueline Sinex New look, new message, new energy. It’s been a long journey, but we finally made it to launch phase 1. WEBii has a face-lifted website with more pertinent information to our business. Why do I say phase 1? Our website was originally built in 1996 and has since undergone many additions and changes. It was [...]
Read moreFace to Face : Reaching a new audience through Facebook
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Brian Disbot Looking to increase traffic to your business? Well, Summer is over and school is back in session meaning a gargantuan amount of opportunity to appeal to a massive audience for your business through social networking websites. While Twitter and Google+ present great opportunities for reaching your customers directly, Facebook is still king when it [...]
Read moreWeb Design is Like a Box of Chocolates
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Jacqueline Sinex “You never know what you’re gonna get.” This statement describes both sides of the web design world – the client and the designer. Looking back at the last 15 years of projects, we see a wide breadth of customers in our portfolio. From a small real estate firm, a law office, or a marketing agency [...]
Read moreKeeping and Eating Your e-Cake
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Jacqueline Sinex How to have a great looking website that is still usable and even sells your products. Sometimes I hear someone hesitate to recommend any “wow” factors for their web design, because they are concerned it will mean the website is not viewable on an iPad. And some merchants delay and delay adding a shopping cart [...]
Read moreQuick Sell Multiple Products
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Jacqueline Sinex One of the things I like best about Magento shopping cart software, is its forward-thinking about different types of products and how e-commerce can be used for a variety of businesses, not just a standard one-off shippable product. Magento comes with an easy way to create several product “types” including “simple” products, which are the [...]
Read moreJust Because You Can Doesn’t Mean You Should
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Jacqueline Sinex I think if I tried hard enough I could probably build my own house. A house, but not a very good house. Probably a building, maybe with 4 walls, but probably in danger of falling down and made of foil and Lincoln Logs. Knowing the importance of good shelter for my family, I will refrain [...]
Read moreMaking the Multi-Address Checkout Link Pretty on the Magento Cart Page
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Jacqueline Sinex In a default Magento setup with a basic theme, Magento includes an option to “Checkout with Multiple Addresses”. This is styled as a plain-Jane blue link (no offense, Jane). Especially if you turn off One-page checkout (and only want to use multi-checkout), this link remains bland and unnoticeable. No more bright orange Checkout button. Styling [...]
Read moreCreating a Second Language Section in WordPress
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Jacqueline Sinex Let’s face it: automated translation software just does not cut it. So what if I want to translate my English-based WordPress website into Spanish or another language? This can be done with a little bit of template editing and some unique pages. The suggestions below will help you establish an alternative navigation menu, display an [...]
Read moreWEBii Shares Advice in Video Interview
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Ally Hugg We recently welcomed a special guest to the WEBii office – who wanted to learn about the importance of custom web design and maintaining a professional website. Doug Keating, of Structural Environments came by to conduct a video interview with Jacqueline Sinex, Project Manager here at WEBii.
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