Google Analytics for Creative Professionals – new class on Pluralsight

Posted by David - August 3, 2016 - Feature-Front, Video, Web Design

Dave LaFontaine google analytics for creative professionals training videos for pluralsight

Transform your career – learn Google Analytics and become a “Creative Data Scientist” David LaFontaine has created a new series of videos for Pluralsight, aimed at teaching creative professionals to learn Google Analytics, and get over their fear of the spreadsheets, numbers, charts and graphs in web analytics. These are some of the topics covered […]

Part Four: Tools that let amateurs look like professionals

Posted by David - September 11, 2015 - Content Strategy, Online Reputation, Social Media, templates, Testimonials, Tutorials

This is the final installment of our epic coverage of social media tools, what they’re good for, and how you might want to use them. In this list, we will be taking a look at tools that you can use to help improve the quality and professionalism of your posts, as well as some tools […]

Part Three: Influence, Klout and finding what’s hot

Posted by David - September 6, 2015 - Content Strategy, Social Media, Tutorials

Tools for Measuring Influence and “Klout” “I know that half my marketing budget is wasted. I just don’t know which half.” As social media marketing has moved from a vague experiment to something that businesses and organizations take seriously, it’s become necessary to track down what are now being called “influencers” (and who used to […]

Best social media tools part 2: Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest

Posted by David - September 6, 2015 - Content Strategy, Content Strategy, Social Media, Social Media, Tutorials, Web Design

In Part 1 of this series, we took a look at tools that manage multiple social media accounts. Part 2 was about analytics that dive deep into the social streams and emerge with data that helps you understand what’s happening. These were top-level tools; this post is going to get a lot more granular, taking […]

How to add sound to a website

Posted by Janine Warner - May 18, 2015 - Dreamweaver CS6

Hi Janine, First of all, let me tell you how much I value your DWCS6 Training video. You did a wonderful job — I’ve listened to it over and over again. Now for my current question. I am creating a responsive-design website for a client who has a number of audio demos on […]

The advantages of a dynamic website, such as WordPress

Posted by Janine Warner - March 10, 2015 - CMS, Dreamweaver, Tutorials, WordPress

When you create a dynamic website site with a program like WordPress, all of your content is stored in a database and pages are generated as they are requested by the server. If you’ve built your website with a program like Dreamweaver, GoLive, or FrontPage, you’ve probably built a ‘static site,’ meaning every page in the […]

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How do you preserve Google rankings when you redesign a WordPress site ?

Posted by Janine Warner - March 8, 2015 - Search Engine Optimization, SEO, Web Design, Web Design

When you redesign a website, you often have to change the URLs of some or all of the pages in the site. And when you do, you risk breaking links to your website, and confusing Google, which can hurt your page rankings in search engine results. Google recommends that if you change the URL of […]

Browser Testing Tools

Posted by Janine Warner - December 14, 2014 - Tutorials

Test your web site in these online browser tools & emulators The Browser Sandbox: By far my favorite, this site does more than take screenshots, it lets you test any site in different browsers. Just click on the browser you want to test with to launch IE, Firefox, or Safari (in multiple versions) as if the […]