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Why User Experience is Too Important to Ignore

Written on Aug. 4, 2011 by Jon-Mikel Bailey, Wood Street, Inc.

It is impossible to have an intelligent conversation about your website without discussing user experience. Today, users are in charge of their own online experience (or at least has the perception that they are). So, any strategy for your website should include some planning for the user’s experience. So, what is User Experience exactly? Wikipedia [...]

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WordPress: It’s Great, But No Easy Button

Written on May. 19, 2011 by Jon-Mikel Bailey, Wood Street, Inc.

We love WordPress. Our blog is built on the WordPress platform. We build custom CMS and other applications for lots of our clients using WordPress. It’s open source which means the source is free, there are tons of useful plug-ins and lots of support and documentation. Does this mean that WordPress is going to solve [...]

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3 Reasons Design Matters on a Web Site

Written on May. 9, 2011 by Jamie Stup, Wood Street, Inc.

There are tons of free web site solutions out there. And, believe it or not, as a web design and development firm we have no problem with this. Certain businesses might be just starting out or maybe they are restructuring and money is tight. We get that. We’d much rather they have a presence than [...]

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3 Reasons Your Web Site is Still Important

Written on Apr. 14, 2011 by Jon-Mikel Bailey, Wood Street, Inc.

A new study out by ForeSee Results shows that less than 1% of site visitors come from a Social Media URL. It also states that 18% of visitors report being influenced by Social Media to visit a web site. So, what does this mean? First, it means that simply having a Facebook page doesn’t lead [...]

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How Does Your Web Site Look on Mobile?

Written on Mar. 1, 2011 by Jon-Mikel Bailey, Wood Street, Inc.

We get a lot of requests from our clients about making their site “mobile friendly”. It’s important that your organization is effectively represented on mobile devices, but what does that mean really? Of course we get the “easy button” question… “Well, can’t we just convert it to mobile?” The answer is no… well, sort of. [...]

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