thoughts, stories, and ideas.

In the earlier days of the web, choosing a platform was often easy. Want something that lets you throw content into a bucket?

If you know your audience, and hopefully you do, investing the time in developing better emails is well worth the effort. Here are some truly exceptional newsletters to inspire you.

It’s an unfortunate reality: internet content production is largely focused on what the “search algorithm” wants to be fed, not necessarily what the user wants to find.

Not your run-of-the-mill eCommerce platform.

Another month, another 15 reasons to love the internet.

Within today’s corporate landscape, identifying and distinguishing your brand attributes is essential.

Content repurposing (aka “content recycling”) describes a savvy strategy for individuals, brands, and companies to recycle content that previously generated high traffic volume and revive it to expand its reach.

Development Another month, another new CMS. This one looks built on top of some pretty awesome technologies, though, and might be worth looking into if you’re in the need of a new CMS.

For the longest time, one of the biggest pushes in the web world has been towards responsive design and development.

Minimalism has been dominating the creative field for years, leaving little room for out-of-the-box ideas and designs. What if we could add just a tiny bit of originality to spice things up?

What do we know about the future of SEO? Well, to put it simply, Google is putting an emphasis on validating your content and ensuring you’re using the best technology available to you.

Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, is the process of increasing quantity and quality of traffic to a website through organic means rather than paid or direct traffic.

Content & SEO Shopping and search are getting more aligned. Google is rolling out features ahead of the 2021 holiday season and we do suspect this is because of the concern around an anemic buying season: Read more on Shopping!

Cookie privacy, notifications (does anyone actually turn on notifications for a website?), newsletters, chats, UX surveys, ads, etc. etc. etc. block the user from getting to the actual content they came for.

Let’s start off with addressing the latest and greatest update from Google: their Page Experience report. This has been a clear emphasis on what we already know from Google in terms of what they want from our websites: better user experience and fast-loading content.

Last month’s partner event included some exciting looks at Online Store 2.0, as well as some additional features and enhancements coming down the pipeline.

Design & UX Why does the new menu exist for creating new empty files? A closer look from the folks over at Microsoft on a piece of UX history that many might not know.

Many businesses, at some point, will consider the possibility of expanding to international markets. Whether the goal is to enter as soon as possible or something they are just beginning to consider, it’s important to develop an international strategy.

In today’s marketplace, companies can be overwhelmed by the feeling that there’s always a new cutting-edge platform they need in order to reach customers. Since this rapid platform evolution seems to be the trend for the foreseeable future, how can companies keep up?

Design Clippy.js Via Smore To start off, here’s a fun piece of nostalgia that’s been making its way into all our office chats lately. Someone rebuilt him for the web. Nobody saw it coming, but we’re delighted to have him back!

For most companies, if not all, the desire to have a team that gets along well is one of the most important aspects of operations. Many companies have clearly defined cultural values and work to find new employees who will reflect and embody those values.

Life as a front end developer will never be simple. By definition, the job balances technology and performance with website interior design. It means doing more than a little of everything. Keeping up with trends while developing a standout style.

In recent years remote learning, working and communication has increased rapidly. Of course, with globalization the need and desire for personal communication via technology has been perhaps the most ubiquitous.

Understanding your organizational culture can help you build a business which supports the ideas and vision of your people.

Businesses must be able to protect their profits. They do so by ensuring their products are both profitable and hard to recreate in the market.