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19 Essential WordPress Plugins That Every Professional Website Should Use Image

19 Essential WordPress Plugins That Every Professional Website Should Use

Posted by: Matt 42 comments

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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11 Absolutely Necessary Web-Based Tools for a Freelance Web Designer Image

11 Absolutely Necessary Web-Based Tools for a Freelance Web Designer

Posted by: Matt 34 comments

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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Conversion Magnet: 10 Tips to Creating a Brilliant Landing Page Image

Conversion Magnet: 10 Tips to Creating a Brilliant Landing Page

Posted by: Matt 12 comments

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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7 Impressive Twitter Customer Service/Brand Management Cases Image

7 Impressive Twitter Customer Service/Brand Management Cases

Posted by: Matt 6 comments

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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11 Reasons Why a Web CMS Will Make Your Life Easier and Your Wallet Fatter Image

11 Reasons Why a Web CMS Will Make Your Life Easier and Your Wallet Fatter

Posted by: Matt 18 comments

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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The Official ‘Successful Website Checklist Challenge’ Image

The Official ‘Successful Website Checklist Challenge’

Posted by: Matt 44 comments

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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13 Reasons Why CSS Is Superior to Tables in Website Design Image

13 Reasons Why CSS Is Superior to Tables in Website Design

Posted by: Matt 86 comments

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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