Posted by: Matt
Pretty bold title, huh? Well, I’ve been a fan of WordPress for years. I’m an avid supporter of the robust and highly intuitive blogging platform and have contributed to the WordPress community over the past few years by launching a professional WordPress themes website, creating a useful plugin (Twitter ReTweet) for Twitter/WordPress integration, and advocating the use of WordPress to clients and friends alike.
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Posted by: Matt
I’m feeling extra generous today, so I’m going to share the most important web-based tools that we use at CHROMATIC to run the majority of our operations.
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Posted by: Matt
Building a great website and building a great landing page are two completely different things. While a strong website can grab the attention of visitors, a strong landing page can (and should) take those visitors and transform them into conversions.
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Posted by: Matt
It’s no secret that Twitter continues to spread like wildfire. More and more businesses – small, medium, and large – are hopping on the Twitter bandwagon. Are they doing it for the right reasons? Well, some of them sure are.
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Nearly every website owner or web developer has asked this question at one time or another: Why should I use a Web Content Management System (WCMS)? If you value your time, money, and sanity, then there are several reasons why using a Web CMS is superior to hand-coding a website.
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If your website doesn’t stand out and do a heck of a lot of things right, then chances are it’s going to crash and burn. Take our “Successful Website Checklist Challenge” (below) and see what you’re doing right, what you’re doing wrong, and what you’re forgetting to do. We’ve even included notes and resources for nearly every item on the checklist (just to make your life easier).
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For the past few days, we’ve been scouring the web searching for the top 13 reasons why Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are superior to table-based layouts when designing a website. Some web designers swear that table-based layouts are better than CSS-based layouts, while others believe that table-based layouts are ancient history and XHTML combined with CSS is the only real solution to coding a web site’s visual layout. Since we’re one of those CSS die-hards, we’ve compiled a list of 13 reasons why CSS-based layouts are superior to table-based layouts.
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Posted in: Articles, CSS, Lists, SEO, Web Design, Web Development, Website Usability