Digital Marketing & Concrete5 Tips Blog
Advice, tutorials, news, training and expert advice on the Concrete5 content management system, ecommerce, website design, online marketing and social media optimization from Pixo Web Design & Strategy. To watch training videos visit our Concrete5 videos page. To learn more about our Concrete5 services or to get your own Concrete5 website please feel free to contact us.
Jan
05
A Case Study: Kickstarter Campaigns, Online Marketing & Concrete5
Launched a Kickstarter campaign for a client today. If you are not familiar, Kickstarter.com is a popular website to get funding for a new product. People can go on and pledge funding for the product and usually get something in return, such as the product, at a discounted price. Frankly, there a…
Categories: Concrete5 CMS
Dec
16
The Top 10 Most Popular Blog Posts of 2014
The following are the most trafficked blog posts on the Pixo Blog in 2014. As we look through these there are some real gems in here. It was fun to look over them again. Please enjoy!
Concrete5 Version 5.7 is now Released!
SEO Rant: Concrete5 CMS vs. Wordpress for Top Rankings in Google
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Categories: Concrete5 CMS
Nov
24
Concrete5 Upgrades from 5.6 to 5.7
Are you looking to upgrade a Concrete5 content management system website from 5.6 or previous version to the new 5.7? We can do that for you! Currently there is a not a migration path from 5.6 to 5.7, but our Concrete5 experts can build you a site that exactly matches your current site with all of…
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Nov
21
Give Your Site a Mobile-friendly Website Test
Interesting development and one more reason to make your website mobile-friendly. Google is now giving sites a mobile-friendly tag in mobile search results to help users find sites that will be easy to view on their mobile devices like the example you see below.
Avoids software that is not commo…
Categories: Website Design
Nov
19
An Amazing 11 Years of Leading Website Design
Eleven years ago this month we started Pixo with a vision of creating websites for small to medium sized businesses that were both powerful, flexible and easy to use. Eleven years later we still have that vision. It is fun to look back over the years and see what we are doing now verses the "early…
Categories: Website Design
Nov
12
Concrete5 Named as Best CMS
We've know if for almost six years now and more than once the public has voted the same. The Concrete5 was honored today with being the winner of the 2014 People's Choice CMS Award for Best Free PHP CMS. CMS critic stated, "Concrete5 has proved itself a tough contender in recent years and with thi…
Categories: Concrete5 CMS
Nov
03
We Aren't All Work at Pixo
Sometimes you've got to have some fun! What better time than Halloween? We took the Pixo 1,300 pound giant pumpkin and the 511 pound carved pumpkin commissioned by Skype and amused the local Trick-or-treaters. Okay, I think we were the ones that were more amused. Have a good laugh and enjoy!
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Oct
20
How to Tell the Difference Between a Designer & an Experienced UI Web Designer
Sometimes I see a beautiful new website design mockup and it almost makes me sick. Graphically it is typically very pleasing but I see things as web designer that I instantly recognize as being un-needfully complex and design features that will possibly make the website less flexible for the client…
Categories: Website Design
Sep
18
Conversion of Frontpage Websites into a Concrete5 Website
Microsoft no longer supports Microsoft Frontpage and as a result many website owners that relied on the Frontpage Extensions have websites that will no longer work going forward. Many people liked Frontpage because it put them in control of their website. They could add content and create new page…
Categories: Concrete5 CMS
Sep
13
Concrete5 Version 5.7 is now Released!
The much anticipated release of Concrete5 content management system version 5.7.0 is now available. This version is the largest release by the Concrete5 team since 5.5. New interfaces, new tools and some pretty slick functional changes come with this big release. So is it time for you to upgrade?…
Categories: Concrete5 CMS
