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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.
Jun
12
The Art of Brain Hacking for Website User Interface (UI) Design
For all intensive purposes, Brain Hacking is the art and science of creating emotion in users that makes a website stand out, easier to use and make a user want to come back. When you brain hack in website design, you increase time on site, reduce bounce rates, increase conversions and make the we…
Categories: Website Design
May
18
Pixo Launches the Fastest Life Insurance Quoter on the Market using Intellasearch Technology
We launched an amazing life insurance website today. One that is going to change the industry. Have you ever need to get a quote on a website and it took you 5-15 minutes to complete the online forms, only to be disappointed in the end? A new website changes everything. With lifesbestinsuranc…
Categories: Website Design
May
17
Pixo in the Wall Street Journal
Pixo Web Design & Strategy has long been known for our great mommy blogger and social media campaigns. Amber Johnson, Vice President at Pixo, was contacted a week ago to talk about family travel (one of our specialties) for an article in the Wall Street Journal. What an honor! The focus of the a…
Categories: mommy blogging
May
08
What to Do When You Aren't Receiving Emails from Your Website Contact Forms
Sometimes I'll hear from clients that they aren't receiving emails from their Concrete5 and Wordpress contact forms on their website. Usually the assumption is that something is broken with the forms. Typically that isn't the case however. Here are some things to try if you aren't receiving emai…
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May
01
Got SSL? Chrome to Show Not Secure Warning on Forms Starting in October
People have just stated talking about it, but we've been talking about it for months. Google has announced that “[in] October 2017, Chrome will show the ‘Not secure’ warning in two additional situations: when users enter data on an HTTP page, and on all HTTP pages visited in Incognito mode.” What …
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Mar
20
How Killer Websites & Great Digital Marketing for Start Up Companies is Like March Madness
I love sports. And I love to draw business ideas about creating teams and starting a business from my sports experience. The competition and people trying their hardest for perfection and to win both as individuals and teams has always been something dear to my heart. This is especially true duri…
Categories: Online Marketing
Mar
02
Handy Tool to Spam Test Your Email Address
I just came across this handy little website that you can use to check your email address to see what you can do to improve it so your emails won't get caught in spam filters. Give it a try. You simply just send an email to the email address that is displayed and then click the button to see your …
Categories: Email
Feb
22
The Case for Small Town Businesses to Get Online Savvy & Use Local SEO
Yesterday I attended the Heber Valley Chamber of Commerce meeting and met a lot of bright people. A couple of weeks ago, Amber Johnson (VP at Pixo) spoke at a Heber Tourism meeting, speaking about social media and search engine optimization for local tourism businesses. What I recognized from bo…
Categories: Search Engine Optimization
Feb
15
Why SEO is Now All About UI & Marketing Rather Than Black Magic in 2017
At Pixo, we've been doing search engine optimization (SEO) since the very earliest days of search. If you remember when their wasn't a site named Google and Yahoo was a manually done search index then you would know how long we've been doing SEO. Oh, how times have changed.
About 7 years ago sear…
Categories: Search Engine Optimization
Feb
04
Fascinating Insights into Perception & Reality in Website UI Design
For one of our larger and more innovative clients we have recently been finishing up a larger project that will go live in the next couple of weeks. After building out what will be a truly revolutionary website for the industry we did focus groups on the website to get user feedback so we could ma…
Categories: Website Design
