Blog - Website Design and Marketing in Orlando

Get SSL on Your Website Before Google Shames You

Ever notice this stuff at the top of your browser? SSL is a security certificate that is installed on your website server. This notifies the user’s browser that your site is who it says it is, and encrypts the data sent from their machine to your site. That is important for transfer data between two…

Running a Small Business Means Owning a Big Hat Rack In the last few hours I’ve helped two team members solve project problems, answered 3 urgent emails, had an impromptu phone meeting with a happy client, reviewed an invoice going out, shot a team member with a Nerf gun (deserved), and wrote a proposal for…

Anything that saves time without cutting corners is gold to any small business and we have a feeling any one of these tools has the potential to save your company time and money or reduce errors and create new opportunities. Making the world a better place one pixel at a time is a task that…

I just finished an internship at Highforge and I’m excited for my future career opportunities. This wasn’t the path I thought I’d take earlier in life, but now that I’m here, there’s nowhere else I’d rather be. Hi, my name’s Ashley. And I’m reinventing myself as a woman in tech. I have a Master’s degree…

Scammers are scum of the earth. And scammers that target newly minted entrepreneurs hungry for new business really make me even more angry. This scam has been around for years, but it’s getting harder and harder to catch, so hopefully this timely public service announcement and reminder for our creative community on how to avoid…

A friend of mine is a commercial airline pilot. He used to fly F16s in the Air Force. If they had just dropped him in a cockpit and told him to figure it out, he’d never have left the ground. There are literally hundreds of (pardon my laymen’s terms) doodads, doohickeys, widgets, leversticks, and stemwinders…

As a designer it is difficult to put into words the importance of typography. Every designer to some extent has a passion for typography, type design and lettering. Take it from this famous designer: “I can’t explain it; I just like looking at type. I just get a total kick out of it. Other people…

Please, Please Don’t Forget the Keyboard Wielders While it may be normal for you to use the internet with a mouse to click on things, this is not the case for a pretty significant amount of people. These people really need your help online. These people have poor vision or are blind, or they have…

Creating HTML buttons with padded borders is fairly simple. Throw a span inside an <a> tag, add a little CSS to make it look pretty, and you’re all set. But what happens if you can’t alter the HTML structure? Recently, our head code pirate, Adam Bradford, came up with a simple, yet elegant solution by…

If you care about your search engine rankings, this could be the most valuable article you read all year. Have you heard the good news? Well, good news if you’re already providing the best online experience to your website visitors. If your website isn’t mobile friendly then read on. If you aren’t sure, then go…