by Deborah Perugi | Apr 26, 2016
This is a good question and one I wish my clients would ask. I think many of them don’t realize what is happening behind the scenes to get their website working. Here goes… First off, we developers/designers gather information from the client. I ask a lot of...
by Deborah Perugi | Apr 7, 2016
In the last post I stressed that designing for mobile is important in today’s very smart, smart-phone world. And a big part of that design is the use of color. There is psyhcology to color: A corporate feel would call for blues and grays. A children’s website...
by Deborah Perugi | Apr 1, 2016
I read this slogan not long ago and realized how really true and succinct it is. Although office workers use desktop, and surf while they are taking a break, the majority of web surfing is done on cell phones. Everywhere and anywhere, you see people looking down at...
by Deborah Perugi | Mar 23, 2016
Most of my clients know I have been in the graphic design and web design business a long time. Maybe its the gray hair that gives it away! After I worked at the Boston Globe for ten years from 1978 to 1988 as an information graphic artist, I started my own company. At...
by Deborah Perugi | Mar 15, 2016
If your business site is sporting the best website software and you are proud of it, why not sport a cool t-shirt as well? Try this t-shirt from the official WordPress Swag Store, only $15. A few years back I ordered several of these in different colors. One in dark...
by Deborah Perugi | Feb 9, 2016
The Best Designer’s Skillset When you hire a web designer or developer you should know what you are buying. Are you getting services from someone who is more of a techie with no design skills? Or someone who is creative but no has no chops when it comes to code...
by Deborah Perugi | Jan 25, 2016
You have written a great post and you want the most activity from your hard work of writing and editing. Here’s an informative article from Coschedule with some good infographics explaining the best times of the week and day to publish depending on your desired...
by Deborah Perugi | Jan 6, 2016
You might hear some odd words tossed around when your web designer or developer is talking to you about your website such as “widget” or “plug-in”. In order for you to be able to communicate with your web designer accurately, learn these simple...
by Deborah Perugi | Jan 4, 2016
If you ever doubted that WordPress, the open source CMS software used my many small companies is up to the task of providing a robust website, here is the definitive answer. If these Fortune 500 companies have faith in running their websites with WordPress, as listed...
by Deborah Perugi | Dec 11, 2015
I sometimes notice that clients upload large size images onto their website. These images of 1 megabytes or more will slow down your WordPress website. Take them into a photo editor before you upload to reduce their size to about 1000 pixels wide (or 12″) at 72...
