Managed Web Hosting
EduCyber offers something called managed web hosting but we have a unique way of handling it. Whereas other firms offering this service automate, automate, automate; we take the time to look at your site. We log in and make sure that your plugins are up-to-date. We update plugins and core files to make sure your […]
Site Security Takes Main Stage
Since at least 2014 Google has been encouraging websites to go secure by using https (installing a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Certificate). Just recently they have indicated that it is becoming increasingly important in their search ranking algorithm. What does that mean? It means you should change your site to SSL. It is not a […]
Becoming a Customer (Part 2)
Can your web site design (not the content) help you get more customers? In our first article on <becoming a customer>, we discussed the content aspect – having a clear call to action on your site. In this article, we are going to investigate whether the visual design elements of a site can help your […]
Becoming a Customer (Part 1)
Have you ever thought about how you interact with web sites? When we speak with potential clients, they rarely have stopped to think about how they want visitors to interact with their site. But what does it mean to become a customer? That, ultimately is what every business owner wants from their website. Social media […]
Building Websites on WordPress
A few short years ago we built most of our websites on pages that were more or less static. If a customer wanted to try something called blogging, we would add a piece of software into the site that allowed them to do this. We had also been building sites on Content Management Software (CMS) […]
Change Your Perspective
I just took a look at my schedule. Next week I have lunch with Brian DeLaet twice. The problem you see is that I am Brian DeLaet. Two different colleagues have sent me calendar invitations to have lunch with them. The problem is they didn’t think about it from my perspective. So my calendar now […]
Top Five Mistakes in Web Design
With the explosion of the web – from new sites to new friends / pages on Facebook to new followers on Twitter and new connections on LinkedIn, there are distractions and sites screaming out for our attention all over the place. So how does a professional website design agency do it right? Well here are […]
Design for Usability
икониWe spend a lot of time talking about web site usability with our customers. But the first question we have to answer is “What is web site usability?” So let’s figure out what it is. As a web design firm we work hard to make our sites visually pleasing but a good web site is […]
Good Design Can Get in the Way of a Great Web Site
One of the most common mistakes in web site design today is the design itself. The most common “abuser” of this is the firm that comes out of the graphic design world and decides to start doing web sites (but there are other perpetrators as well). How does this happen? It’s simple actually. A stunningly […]
What Makes a Good Web Site Good?
We design web sites. We do this all day long, every day. One of my primary roles is working with the client to establish the goal and the look. Frequently the client comes to us with “I want these features on the site and I want this element and this element”. As we talk through […]
