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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.
Aug
27
This Deal is Crazy Good for You! Time is Limited.
My team says I'm crazy, but we are going to do it! This limited time offer will expire on September 3rd. Get a concrete5 website with the following items for only $999.00. This offer will be limited to just the first five people that signup and after that it will be gone. With this package, all …
Categories: Website Design
Aug
26
The Art of Business, Website Design & Giant Pumpkin Growing
For those who don’t know, I grow giant pumpkins during the summer in my free-time. These aren’t your ordinary Halloween, jack-o-lantern pumpkins but the ones you see on the news that are over 1,000 pounds. Over the years we’ve had a lot of fun with the pumpkins including being on TV with Jerry Sei…
Categories: Website Design
Aug
15
SEO Rant: Concrete5 CMS vs. Wordpress for Top Rankings in Google
I'm forced to write this post. I've heard it come up more than once by supposed search engine optimization (SEO) experts/gurus/professionals and it drives me crazy! The scenario is something like this: Potential client is wisely meeting with different agencies to get website development work and/o…
Categories: SEO
Jul
22
How to Nearly Stop Spam From Your Concrete5 Form without a Captcha
Are you getting dozens of emails a day from your Concrete5 forms and is it driving you crazy? You aren't the only ones. We've seen a big increase in the number of spambots auto submitting online forms of all types (not just Concrete5 forms) this year. Spambots crawl the internet looking for onlin…
Categories: Concrete5 CMS
Jul
04
Fighting email Spam & Google Apps for Work for Your Business
Are you getting tired of email spam or looking for other email options for your growing business? Have you considered Google Apps for Work?
Google Apps for Work is a cloud-based productivity suite that includes Gmail for professional email, Drive for online storage, Hangouts for video meetings, …
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Jun
21
Why You Should Use a Concrete5 Website for a Kickstart Campaign
Start up businesses or established companies with a new product often times will turn to Kickstart to build funding or to market a new product. Kickstart is a wonderful way to promote a new product to an eager audience looking for a deal, latest technology or service. However you should establish y…
Categories: Concrete5 CMS
Jun
13
How to Migrate Your Website From Wordpress to Concrete5 CMS
I can't count how many times we've taken a Wordpress, Drupal, or Joomla website and turned it into a Concrete5 website. For many users those before mentioned content management systems just doesn't meet the user's needs. Usually the problem is that for some users, the editing tools just aren't int…
Categories: Concrete5 CMS
Jun
06
How Google has Leveraged the SEO Community to Build Google+
Google+, Google's social media equivalent to Facebook, has had a meteoric rise in the number of users over the last year. We've been telling our clients that they need to be on Google+ for the last two years, because we saw a trend and statements from the Executives at Google that told us that if y…
Categories: Social Media
May
08
How to Use Your Slideshow as User Navigation to Drive Conversions
This is one of those simple little things that can turn a good website into a great website. Get a slideshow on your homepage that not only makes your page more visually appealing but also becomes a navigation piece for your users that can increase coversions. An attractive slideshow with call to …
Categories: Website Design
Apr
24
Get a Sneak Peak at Concrete5 Version 5.7
Some great changes coming to Concrete5. Significant changes to how you edit pages that we have talked about for a while will be in version 5.7. Also better support for javascript libraries (yea!) which will be great for developers. Watch this video to see it all.
Categories: Concrete5 CMS
