Austin Web Design Category
Keeping 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.
Read moreBeware of Twitter Emails
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Jacqueline Sinex You open your Inbox and bob excitedly in your seat – you have new messages in your Twitter account! But wait – do not click on that link. Yes, this is yet another disappointing scam email. It’s not really from Twitter. It’s not really a nice message about how amazing your tweets are. It’s someone [...]
Read moreWhat is Custom Web Design?
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Jacqueline Sinex At WEBii we describe our web design services as custom. So what is so different about custom? Today, there are many options for creating a new web site design. You can use a do-it-yourself template based program, usually with drag and cut and paste functionality. You can hire a large company who specializes in a [...]
Read moreThe Value of SEO Campaigns
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Chass Armstrong The other day as I was browsing the internet, I came across some very interesting statistics about the effectiveness of SEO campaigns. According to various articles that I had read online, approximately 60% of search engine users click on a link that is on the first page. Meaning, unless your site is listed on that [...]
Read moreEasy Steps to WordPress Sectional Sidebars
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Jacqueline Sinex Situation: You have a Wordpress developed website and you want additional sidebars for different sections in the website, so you can display different widgets on different pages. This is especially handy for adding various sub-menus to different sections (like one for About Us section, a different menu for Contact Us).
Solution: You don’t need to be a PHP expert – just some comfort with the Wordpress structure can help you accomplish this in a few easy steps…
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