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Lessons from the Trenches: Debunking The Myths About WordPress
WordPress has attracted much attention over the years as a popular and influential content management system. Unfortunately, with that attention comes a lot of misinformation and myths. Today, we're going to debunk the top 10 WordPress myths.
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Alert & Notification Systems: Types, Tools & Kick-Ass Pro Tips
Looking to build an alert system for your upcoming project? In this in-depth article, we’ll dig into the most popular options and break down the pros, cons, best practices, and all the pro tips you need to find the right solution for your next project.
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How To Quickly Test Google Web Font Speeds
When selecting web fonts, though, you have to keep in mind that every font and font weight will have a performance cost. How much depends entirely on the font, number of font weights, and the source.
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7 Ways to Optimize WordPress for High Performance
Good news! Your content strategy and SEO are working, you are seeing solid traffic to your site and converting them into regular readers. You are ready to take the next step to make sure you keep your valuable audience as well as increase conversions of new visitors to return visits. Besides original compelling posts rich in text and images, the number one way to do this is to increase your site's SPEED.
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Tools of the Quality Assurance Trade: How to Test Your Website
Just as inferior editing can ruin a book, a website that is launched without proper quality assurance runs the risk of repelling potential users with its lack of polish. But unlike a book, which only needs to be edited once, websites require constant upkeep, analysis and improvement. Thankfully there are many tools available to help in the testing and maintenance process.
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Monkee-Boy Redesign: Before and After OpenSymmetry
OpenSymmetry Site Redesign - Project Goals - High Level: To complete a full design overhaul that can communicate the brand as a trusted thought leader in a niche market while also portraying the company values of performance, innovation and a "whatever it takes" approach. Ground Level...
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Five Things To Know If Considering a CMS
Here at Monkee-Boy, we are known for shooting our clients straight. We receive RFPs of all shapes and sizes and most, if not all, contain some kind of CMS requirement. Content management tools can be great as they can give non-technical users the never before imagined ability to manipulate complex components of their site.
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Mobile App vs Mobile Web... Which is better?
Two things are for certain: 1) the internet has changed how and why we do business and 2) smartphones are going to change how and why we use the internet. With the ever-increasing popularity of using smartphones to access online information, the future of how sites will be built (i.e. how the iPhone has squashed the use of Flash online) and how consumers access your content is here and happening right now.
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