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3 Key Questions For Your Website Designers
This article was co-written by Alisa Boysis of Alisa Boysis Design We've noticed common issues with the website design and development process that can throw a wrench into what should be the predictable flow of development. There are 3 tough high level questions you...
How To Fix Incorrect Information About You On The Internet
Our clients often email us when they discover that when they do Google searches for their business, they find other websites that have wrong information about them, such as addresses, phone numbers, and so on. You can imagine the damage and confusion that can be...
One Easy Way to Speed Up Your Site Regardless of Your Host (But Especially GoDaddy Managed WP Hosting)
Do you use GoDaddy managed WordPress hosting? Are you wondering why your website takes so long to load? It's not just you. GoDaddy managed WP hosting is SLOW for two main reasons: GoDaddy DNS (domain name service) is notoriously slow compared to other DNS services....
4 Tips to Surf the Web like a Web Developer
If you're not great with technology, this post is aimed at helping you become a pro web surfer. Keeping a few simple things in mind will save you countless hours. Summary Use a browser that web developers are most likely to use while they're developing...
ULTIMATE Guide to 5 Star Google Review Links
Everybody Needs 5 Star Google Review Links Something I find myself doing over and over again is helping companies make it very easy for their customers to leave them 5 star reviews on Google. Yes, it is possible to tell your customers about a url like...
Calgary Web Modernization Project (CWMP)
Calgary Web Modernization Project (CWMP) Luxica is announcing the launch of our Calgary Web Modernization Project (CWMP). Luxica's vision is to help great local organizations and companies compete on the world stage by using the most up to date...
Local SEO: How to Make Sure Your Business Ranks High in Local Search Results
Search engine optimization (SEO) is vital for any business. The usual approach to SEO is for websites to try and get ranked as high on Google as possible for specific keywords related to their business model. However, for many businesses, it's much more...
The One Reason Why You Need to Know What Google Search Console Is
In my years of practice, I haven't met a single person or company who thinks of Google Search Console as anything more than an afterthought, and that's a mistake. The One Reason Why Google Search Console is your way to have a two way conversation with Google, the...
Google Rolls Out Analytics Intelligence
Google has finally rolled out Analytics Intelligence to our organization (based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada), which means that it's likely you now have it as well. This functionality was announced in the summer time, but clearly it was not immediately rolled out to...
Why You Should Always Include Quotes Around Your CSS Image URL
Having developed websites for well over 10 years now, I am astounded at how often coding examples show CSS image properties without quotes. For example: background-image: url(~/path/to/image.jpg); In practice, this is fine for most static websites, but for dynamic...
Adapt or Die (Digital Marketing is Adaptation)
Marketing is Fitness I like to compare marketing to fitness. Everyone wants a six pack, and every business wants a healthy supply of customers. The problem is that most people don't truly understand how to get a six pack, and so they never get one. I humbly consider...
Something Meta You Should Know About Corporate Websites
All over the web there exists awful corporate websites. Ironically, tech companies, even web technology companies, or even web development companies, have awful websites. Ours is no exception. It looks decent, but at the end of the day it's a WordPress website and it...
So.. You want to work with ONE developer on the cheap?
Someone who is thinking of making their dreams come true and have an application built out with a single developer should know a few things before going forward. There is an important distinction. Having a single developer develop a webSITE is far less risky than a...
Serious About Your App Idea?
As a tech professional with both business and technical abilities, I get approached somewhat frequently by curious people about how they can go about making their tech ideas a reality. Whether they are good ideas or not, one thing that all the people have in common is...
SEO is Like Having a Dinosaur Mascot Working For You 24/7/365
Do you ever see sign tossers on the side of the road? Catches your eye, doesn't it? Do you ever see sign tossers dressed up as a dinosaur on the side of the road? Really catches your eye, doesn't it! For a Halloween promotion, some company hired a person to stand at...
The Single Most Profound Thing About SEO
Usually in life when one comes to master a craft or develop an advanced understanding of it, one can play and interact with the philosophical undertones and implications of that thing. That might mean nothing to you, but the frank translation is that after doing...
Web Developers Don’t Automatically Know SEO (But We Do)
When it comes to developing the ideal web experience for your business, there is often a tension between the developers, the people in charge of SEO, and the people in charge of user interface (UI / UX). Of course, if you have a small budget then usually you’re stuck...