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 Read More »
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 Read More »
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 Read More »
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. Read More »
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 Read More »
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 Read More »
Custom WordPress themes can be built in different ways. Most professional developers prefer to use Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) to allow all the content to be updated from the admin page. But it’s also possible to allow changes to the layout of a page using ACF Flexible Content, page builders like WP Bakery, Elementor, Beaver Read More »
Website visitors use a wide range of screens and devices, but designers cannot possibly prepare mockups for every use case. You need to choose what screen resolutions to use for web design files. But what is the best screen resolution for web design? Is there even one? We work with many digital agencies as their Read More »
Many agencies wonder if Sketch or Photoshop should be their primary web design tool. Photoshop has been the industry standard, but Sketch and other UI/UX tools are challenging the old dinosaur. As a Sketch to WordPress and PSD to WordPress development company, we get to experience the stand-off from a front-row seat. Photoshop is at Read More »
A custom WordPress website takes a lot of time and skill to be developed. Some WordPress projects could take more than 200 hours to complete and more often than not you won’t be able to predict it by going with an educated guess. Failing to estimate time of building a WordPress website accurately, puts the Read More »
WordPress plugins are intended to make our life easier. And WordPress has them in abundance! Think of any issue that may occur with your WordPress site and there are dozens of plugins that are ready to solve it. Having such an embarrassment of riches comes with a logical question — which plugin is the most Read More »
We deliver new websites to clients pretty much every day, with PSD to WordPress being by far our most popular service. Making sure that they work correctly is paramount to the perceived quality of the delivery, and therefore we have developed a methodology for how to run website quality assurance before we show them to Read More »
