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5 Mistakes You Might Be Making With Your Website

education | web design by Shannon Noack on November 5, 2012 | 2 Comments

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You’ve worked hard to create a beautiful and informative website for your company so your users have great things to read and look at. It’s easy to make some simple mistakes though and either bring down your site, or lose some visitors without knowing it, causing all of your hard work to go to waste. We have some quick tips on things to be aware of with your website, so you don’t…

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Blog Action Day – The Power of We

design | inspiration | web design by Shannon Noack on October 15, 2012 | 0 Comments

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We are proud to be a part of Blog Action Day this year, something we’ve participated in for 5 years now. Blog Action Day started in 2007, as a way to focus the conversation online for one day on a relevant world issue, something we can help shed more light on, or bring help to. This year, the topic revolves around “The Power of We.” The Blog Action Day website defines this topic…

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HTML5 Simplified – And How It Applies To You

business | education | resources | web design by Shannon Noack on October 8, 2012 | 3 Comments

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As a business owner, you might have heard the buzzword HTML5 and wanted to implement it immediately because it’s the latest and greatest, but weren’t quite sure what it was or how it applied to your website. Or maybe you haven’t heard of it at all, but would like to know more! We’ll go through a simplified version of what it is and what it could mean to you, so you understand…

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New Website Launch: Soleil Organique

new website launch | testimonial | web design by Shannon Noack on September 17, 2012 | 1 Comment

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We recently launched another great website, for Soleil Organique, an organic sun and skincare company with a great online store. They sell elegantly packaged products that look and feel beautiful on your skin so they needed a streamlined, clean and powerful website to cater toward their savvy clientele and match the elegance of their products. We moved this site over to WordPress for this launch, giving them a more powerful and user-friendly…

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Keeping Your WordPress Site Up To Date

blogging | business | resources | web design by Shannon Noack on September 11, 2012 | 0 Comments

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WordPress is our favorite solution for setting up clients with a user-friendly content management system that allows them to manage their own site. One of the biggest reasons we like WordPress, is that WordPress continually offers updates and upgrades that make it easier to use, more powerful, and most importantly, more secure. In order to take advantage of all that WordPress has to offer with these updates, you need to stay on…

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Business Is Beautiful

design | inspiration | web design by Shannon Noack on September 5, 2012 | 1 Comment

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Brilliant and gorgeous websites come in all different colors, layouts, and genres, and certainly aren’t excluded from the business world. Your company’s brand should dictate the style of your site which means that business sites can be fun, eccentric, serious, or playful depending on what kind of character your business has. We’ve gathered a great and varied collection of small, medium and large business sites that showcase the fact that beauty can…

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Common Buzzwords & Terminology in the Web World Explained

education | web design by Shannon Noack on August 30, 2012 | 0 Comments

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You may have heard many of these buzzwords and terms and aren’t sure what they mean. Responsive web design, RSS, SEO – they may just sound like Greek to you. Well we’ve gathered together a bunch of buzzwords and common terms used in the web industry and we have some definitions and explanations of each. If you manage a website, it’s great to have an understanding of some of the basic terms…

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Keep It Simple!

business | web design by Shannon Noack on August 16, 2012 | 0 Comments

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Keeping your website as simple and easy to use as possible, is always best for your users. A website can easily become bogged down with too much information that’s added over time. It becomes less usable when it’s hard to find things because of information overload. You’ve added this information to help your users, but you’ll actually end up overwhelming them, causing them to leave before finding what they need. We have…

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5 Fun Ideas To Spruce Up Your New Website

design | web design by Shannon Noack on August 10, 2012 | 3 Comments

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So you’re creating a new website – that’s great! When working on a new website design for your company, we have some great ideas on making something that’s fresh, different, but still entirely encompasses who your company is. If you’re creating a new site, you might have a new style to incorporate, but if it’s the same look and feel that you want, your design can still be updated with a fresh…

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New Website Launch: Medi

new website launch | testimonial | web design by Shannon Noack on August 6, 2012 | 1 Comment

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We’ve launched a great new website for Medi, a sophisticated, yummy and fun mediterranean restaurant in Arlington, Virginia. The design is full of personality, creating a fun and upbeat style for their place by using some funky and unique fonts, loads of textures (that echo the finishes in their restaurant), and a great color palette. We started by creating their logo, integrating a blue door that’s well-known in the Mediterranean (and can…

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