Accessibility: Two Awesome Web Design Tips to Help the Disabled

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…

What is business automation? Everyday repetitive tasks simplified by technology to reduce errors and wasted labor. Great automation produces incredible return on investments for growing businesses. Background Our journey starts with Frank. Frank is a fictional business owner that owns and operates a very successful hot dog cart chain “Frank’s Furts”. Frank’s Furts was…

Don’t you hate it when sales leads from your website get lost in your pile of emails? Unless you’re reading email all day long (I gave up that dirty habit years ago), you’re often not going to respond until it’s too late. You’re in serious danger of losing those sales before you even get started.…

As part of our effort to make the world a better place, one pixel at a time, we’re starting a new blog series showing the small touches we use at Highforge to make the websites we build stand out above the rest. You usually don’t notice them, unless they’re missing. They improve a user’s experience…

WordPress powers over 20% of the charted internet. We’re talking about 60+ million websites. And most of those WordPress installations are set up wrong. Really wrong. We have a reputation as a rather dashing band of WordPress developers over here and we love sharing what we’ve learned the hard way so you can do it…

We are excited to announce our partnership with web performance and security company CloudFlare. If you’re unfamiliar with CloudFlare, they are able to make websites faster and protect them from web threats galore. CloudFlare is used by hundreds of thousands of websites. It doesn’t matter if that site is an individual’s blog, an e-commerce site,…

For many of us marketing agency folk, who spend countless hours in front of a computer, Google Chrome is our weapon of choice. There is a long list of reasons why Chrome is a great browser, but the bees knees is the ability to add features to it, through the addition of Chrome Extensions. Here…