The professional WordPress website scene has been dominated by custom development using Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) and Custom Post Types (CPT) for many years, but Elementor and other page builders continue to gain momentum. As a digital agency, you might be considering what’s best for your business–and for your clients. This article will take you […]
Junior WordPress developers can do pretty cool things. It’s common for agencies to come to us asking for a senior developer, only to learn that a junior WordPress developer would be enough for what they need. However, for anyone who is new at something, there’s always a risk of making mistakes. So what are the […]
By now, you’ve already learned the most important lessons being spread across the Internet on how to handle the COVID-19 crisis as a digital agency; the basics of remote work, what industries are doing well during an epidemic, and how much cheaper it is to advertise right now. These articles on how to market during […]
When you quote a website project, how much thought do you put into it? Are you using a method, or just painfully guessing what will bring you a good profit? No matter your method, make sure you think it through because it has a big impact on your agency’s profitability. I get many calls from […]
Before you embark on the exciting phase of designing a new website for yourself or your client, it’s important to plan the website structure for it. Here are the reasons why you want to do that before you proceed developing anything else: More website traffic. Over 50% of all website traffic comes from search according […]
We thought we’d help you prepare for spring cleaning season 2020, and help you make money while doing so. How? Migrate websites to WordPress for your old clients. If you’ve been in the web game for a while, you may be familiar with this scenario: Client: It’s David. My website’s breaking down again and I […]
Being a digital project manager is a tough job. You’re often the coordinator who needs to manage a client, a creative, and an engineer under a tight deadline. We work with WordPress project managers every day, and we’ve learned a few things about WordPress project management. So what do experienced PMs do differently to make […]
Pixel perfect web development means “coding a website to match the web designs pixel by pixel”. In reality, this is achievable only for a fixed set of screen resolutions, so the general meaning of the term is “web development that follows the web designer’s intent perfectly”. “Pixel perfect” has been widely criticized as a concept […]
The terms “custom WordPress theme” and “WordPress theme customization” are semantically similar. But to us who work with custom WordPress development on a daily basis, they are very different. We’ve noticed that even some established web agencies and WordPress development companies cannot separate the two, so let’s get the terms straight. A clear taxonomy is […]
As the CEO of what might look like a normal digital agency at first glance, I get tons of emails from outsourcing companies that want to offer their development services to us. Two things that usually come up as key benefits are low WordPress developer rates and a wide range of technologies offered besides WordPress. […]
Introduction to ADA compliance It takes a lot of thought and effort to develop a professional WordPress site, we know since that’s what we help agencies do. You need to think about the many interacting parts. The copy, the imagery, the functionality, and how to make the overall design pull all of that together and […]
After months of exploration, design, and development you’re finally ready to go live with your client’s new website. Voila! “It looks great, but I checked it on Google PageSpeed and I have only 62 on mobile. Can you get it up to 100?” Oh boy. What’s a good answer here? To implement changes at this […]
