What are your business goals for 2017? With the end of 2016 drawing near, whether you’re a one-man show running your own business or have a bigger team, now’s the time to make a conscious effort to pause and look back on the year and consider a few direct questions: What worked? What didn’t work? What lessons can be applied to their future plans for the new year?
Continue reading
Just a couple weeks into the Fall Semester and student clubs have already started recruiting new members and mapping out their initiatives for the upcoming school year. Faculty members in every department have donned their galoshes, rolled up their sleeves and are well on their way through the tangles and mud of their respective research projects. But just how do they plan on compiling and marketing their work? This is where we turn to the IT department.
Continue reading
You’ve launched a website with a beautiful theme, great graphics and clever content. You’ve promoted it through social media, and even perhaps paid advertising. Your job is done–you’ve built it, so they will come. Right? Well, yes, and no.
Continue reading
User experience in web design and psychology aren’t often so readily considered to connect to each other. Even ask a group of well-seasoned web designers and most will tell you they never had to take any user experience courses that incorporated psychological and cognitive principles. Though if you took a few moments to scan through some introductory descriptions of human perception and cognition, it would be immediately clear how having a deeper understanding of psychology could dramatically improve your approach to designing a results-oriented website.
Continue reading
We’ve talked with dozens of our users, most of whom have started their own web design and digital marketing agencies in countries all over the world. One thing we’ve heard repeatedly is how important it can be to start off the entire collaboration between agency and client by asking the right questions.
Continue reading
The launch of a campaign or movement usually comes at a momentous time for every company. You could be celebrating the beginning of your enterprise, advertising a new product on the market or holding a tribute to the legacy of your organization. In each case, online campaigns are a very effective way to reinforce the story and culture of your work for your existing loyal customers while generating even more clientele.
Continue reading
Just last week in the Artbees hive, we barrelled right on past 100 and hit 110 templates that we now offer to our users. Having surpassed that goal we set just about a year ago, it was a surreal moment for us. Though to be honest, it was a bit anticlimactic as we briefly paused to do a celebratory jig before quickly getting back to work on the next batch of new templates.
Continue reading
This is no secret to most of us in the digital marketing sector; in the last five years there’s been a drastic change. People’s device of choice has gone from their desktop to their mobile phone, the majority of which are smartphones.
Continue reading
This year Portugal hosted the 2016 Web Summit, inviting over 50,000 guests made up of CEOs, startups, investors, and leaders in the tech world. This was the largest event of its kind to be held in Europe and was chock full of opportunities to exchange ideas, creative energy and best practices.
Continue reading
As we began to think about “what’s next for us, and for WordPress?” it was important for us to put ourselves in the shoes of the average user, as opposed to our professional developer experience.
Continue reading