So if you have ever considered a WordPress website, you have probably seen the millions of premade WordPress themes out there. A premade WordPress theme can be purchased for about $60-$100 which means you can save thousands on your website, right? Well, not exactly because these short-term savings can hugely reduce sales long run as premade themes are riddled with issues, which we have outlined below. You get what you pay for so buyer beware…
A lot of our clients are curious as to what we predict will be hot and new next year. We anticipate that all the web design trends for 2015 will continue to play out in 2016 with everything revolving around responsive web design and the mobile user experience. For the majority of companies who survive on business driven by their websites, forward-looking is the only way to approach a redesign project. Below, we have outlined some of our web design predictions.
We always get calls from companies where web designers have run off with their deposits or suddenly gone missing. Worse yet, some opt to save a few bucks and hire their friend or relative to do it for “free” only to realize that opportunity costs were far greater than the savings. Running a web design business, I get these kinds of frantic fix-it calls everyday, which is why I have decided to share my best tips for hiring the right web design firm the first time around.
We spend a lot of time talking to companies about their websites here. Over the last four years, we have talked to over 500 prospects in many different industries from young startups to established corporations. We have pretty much heard it all. Unfortunately, a lot of people make the same mistakes. Although we recommend that you perform your own research, interviewing and due diligence, we have outlined some common mistakes people make so you can learn from them.
Google has recently announced that having a mobile-friendly website will be used as one of the factors to determine your website rankings. This means that if your website is not mobile-friendly, you will start slipping from search results at least when searches are originating from mobile devices. How fast this happens depends on how your competition reacts. If you do not have a responsive (mobile-friendly) website yet, now is the time to convert. It will take some time for Google to update their search results so you do have some leeway.
Launched in 2011, WooCommerce is the most popular eCommerce plugin for WordPress that allows website owners to manage payments, shipping, inventory, reporting, marketing and taxes without any web development knowledge. WooCommerce currently powers 24% of all eCommerce websites (that’s an astounding 663,153 websites) and certainly, it is popular for a good reason. Here are some of the reasons why you should choose WooCommerce for to create a shopping cart on your WordPress website.