Choosing a quality hosting provider has gotten a bit more complex lately. Hosting providers are adjusting their per-server loads to handle more robust websites built on frameworks such as WordPress and Drupal and that is cutting down the amount of websites they can...
For those of you that have heard any mention of the SSL Heartbleed vulnerability in the news this week, Mashable has put together a list of sites that are possibly affected and which ones are not so that you can change passwords accordingly. For those of you running...
As more and more consumers use the Internet to make mainstream and daily purchases, ecommerce stores must carefully review what options attract the highest conversion among their users. A recent study of over 1600 consumers by Limelight compared 3 common...
We recently made a switch in our responsive (mobile) development to testing our pages on multiple real devices across the pages on a website. Before now, we had been testing simply using our browser windows and emulators and occasionally an iPhone here or there to...
This is a questions we get a lot over here at Old Town Media. We put a site live and within a day or two we will have the client call up and wonder why when they type in a generic term like 'doctor' are they not being found on google. Here are some important things to...
WordPress has really taken the development world by storm in the last 5 or so years. It's grown from a relatively small blogging platform to one of the most versatile and easy to access content management software in the world. Its capabilities, flexibility,...
In our searches to find better ways to serve our clients, we often find powerful and useful tools for measuring website success and metrics. Here are a couple of tools that we've stumbled upon to measure how well your website is performing. Pingdom Tools Pingdom...
Protecting your images on the web has been a hotly debated topic since photographers and graphic artists started using the Internet many, many years ago. Some people try to protect against right-click, others smother obnoxious watermarks on their images, while still...
Website accessibility is the process of making your website viewable to everyone. This means text that can be read by Braille software for the blind, images and text that can scale larger for those who have a hard time seeing, and captions for videos for those who are...
There’s a relatively new web design rule – 2 clicks or less. This rule states that if a user has clicked two times or more and has not found what they need, you’ve lost them as a visitor. The previous rule here related to “above-the-fold”, in other words, everything...