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.
Aug
05
Integrating Your Concrete5 Website with Facebook
There are a lot of great ways to enhance your social media efforts and Facebook presence with the Concrete5 content management system. Add-ons for Concrete5 like the Facebook Like Button and Facebook Comment are great ways to bring interactivity between your Facebook page and your Concrete5 website…
Categories: Denver Social Media
Jul
20
Concrete5 & Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Often we are asked when we move an existing site into Concrete5 if the site's search engine ranking is going to drop with the change to Concrete5. Our experience has been that in most cases the keyword ranking after the move to concrete5 actually improves slightly. One reason might be the dynamic …
Categories: Concrete5
Jul
14
The Myth: Social Media & Search Engine Optimization Doesn't Work in My Industry
Three years ago a long time client, while working on a new website for them told me that, "We aren't interested in search engine optimization. Nobody in our industry uses the internet to find commercial real estate." I had heard this once before and it didn't make sense to me either time it was told…
Categories: Denver Social Media
Jun
30
Adding A Block in Concrete5 to Multiple Pages
This is one of those, "I wish I knew that before" blog posts. After using Concrete5 for longer than I care to admit in this post, I just discovered a "new" tool that would have saved my dozens of hours over the last year if I had known about it. The tool is the Setup on Child Pages tool that is fo…
Categories: Concrete5
Jun
16
Pixo on NBC's The Marriage Ref, Sunday June 26th
Every office has its troubles. Sometimes it is the missing Swingline stapler. Other times it is power struggles within the Executive ranks. Pixo Web Design & Strategy is no different than other companies. Presidents and Vice Presidents often don’t see eye to eye on business issues, but when the …
Categories: Awesome
May
23
More than You Would Expect from an Open Source Content Management System; Concrete5
One of the cool things about Concrete5 is the number of tools that come with it right out of the box. 90% of the websites that Pixo builds don't need a bunch of additional add-ons or custom code because most of what our small business customers needs are already in Concrete5. This post lists the to…
Categories: Concrete5
May
10
Using Concrete5 Ecommerce As a Product Catalog
We have had great success with using Concrete5's ecommerce add-on to create online catalogs for customers. We have done this for auto dealerships, product manufactures and retailers alike. Based on our clients needs we create categories of products with product attributes that allow our clients to…
Categories: Concrete5
Apr
16
Convert Any Monster Template into a Concrete5 Theme
Have you found the ideal website design on a service like Monster Templates but want to use it on a Concrete5 website? We can help! Pixo Web Design & Strategy are experts in creating custom Concrete5 themes and converting existing website templates into Concrete5 themes.
For as little as $75 we ca…
Categories: Concrete5
Apr
14
Logins, Password Protected Pages & Site Permissions Setup for Concrete5
Often you have the need to have an area of your website that you want only certain people to have access to. Concrete5 out of the box has a fair amount of functionality to allow you to create user accounts and permissions to lock down pages on your website. The problem is that you don't get everyt…
Categories: Concrete5
Apr
04
Business Marketing Blogs
It's been my experience that a blog is the most important tool in your social media marketing tool box. It benefits you by increasing your visibility on the search engines and within the "social web." Here's how to get the most out of your business blog:
Create a Category for Each Service: Blogs a…
Categories: Blog Consultation
