In the world of websites, you’d be hard “pressed” to find a platform more widely used than WordPress. Powering nearly 40% of websites, WordPress is a solid choice for web developers to create rich, dynamic, and responsive sites that are easy to update on the back end with its customizable, built-in CMS (Content Management System).…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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