Content Management Systems, like WordPress, make it ridiculously simple to maintain a website. You can publish a blog post, edit a page, manipulate the layout and more. But just because it’s easy, doesn’t mean it takes care of itself. Maintaining a website is like maintaining a home. You have to mow the lawn every week, and ... Read more +
Let’s face it… First impressions matter. Even when it comes to web design. In order for your site to be successful, you need to attract and retain your site visitors with a combination of good design and great content. If visitors arrive at your site and it’s poorly designed, cluttered, and the content is outdated you can bet site... Read more +
Time. We all wish we had more of it. No matter how early we start, or how fast we work, it always seems we need more hours in the day. More Posts = More Traffic On some level, you know this is true. You know that’s what you should be doing. Posting 1, 2, even 3 times per week. But you’ve fallen behind. Why? Lack of time. Blogging Cheat Sheet: ... Read more +
Based on client feedback, last week we pushed an update to dsSearchAgent v3 that improves some of the aspects with registration. Some of the changes are as follows: When a registration dialog is launched because of a view/search constraint, the visitor is no long able to close the dialog via the [X] icon, nor by pressing the [escape] key. When a ... Read more +
Has your WordPress blog ever been hacked? Did the culprit add a whole bunch of malicious content that you had no clue how to get rid of? Not a pleasant experience I’m sure… So this week we’re joined by Guest Presenter, Andres “Dre” Armeda (@dremeda) – whom I describe as a crunchy taco lovin’ WordPress ... Read more +
We’re very excited to announce the new Diverse Solutions site redesign. It’s been a few months in the works, and today, that process is finally complete and perfect timing too as we release our new dsSearchAgent Mobile product. It wasn’t too long ago that we gave dsSearchAgent v3.1 a new modern design and well, we knew that it was... Read more +
Site speed is how quickly a website responds to web requests. Basically, it’s how long your website takes to load and it matters because it’s a signal that Google takes into consideration in it’s search ranking algorithms. So, how do you determine what a good load time is? How do you measure and know if your site is performing ... Read more +
They say that on average, 8 out of 10 people read a headline and only 2 out of the 10 will proceed to read the rest of your blog post. So what do you do to get the other 8 people to read the entirety of your content? Enough to get interested and subscribe or register? Well today, I thought we’d talk about just that… Here’s a ... Read more +
Last week we shared 5 ways to use video creatively in your real estate business. Today, we have some tips for you from Stephen Schweickart, Co-Founder of VScreen – a professional video production company. You can check out more awesome tips and techniques in their Video 101 Series. [youtube width=600 height=480]m_1UAlMbOpg[/youtube]... Read more +
When you first started blogging, there was all that excitement over starting something new. You put hours into it… Tweaking the design. Uploading new content. Promoting your content. Till finally it seemed like you were making some headway… Then all of a sudden, you hit a plateau. Your blog stopped growing. What happened? What am I ... Read more +