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Responsive Web Site Creation for InnoVision Awards

Friday, April 26th, 2013

We recently finished developing and launching the newly revised responsive web site for InnoVision. We not only created a totally responsive web site that scales to fit different devices but the site is a complete content management system. We developed content management system in WordPress, so that the InnoVision board could easily edit and maintain the site without having to call upon use for changes and updates.

While creating the new design, function and responsive InnoVision web site; we also developed our own code so that current blog post are streamed on the home page of the site and link directly to the relative blog post.

Martha Winebarger with Engage Solutions and Kathy Ham were invaluable with the creation of the InnoVision web site. Martha’s dedication to content and Kathy Ham’s eye for detail as made the site a real success. If you would like to visit the site simply visit www.innovisionawards.org

Posted in Content Management Systems, Graphic Design, Greenville Web Development, Photography, Responsive Design, Web Site Design, WordPress, WordPress | No Comments »

WordPress Most Popular Plugins

Monday, January 21st, 2013

WordPress has a lot of great and functional plug-ins. Here is a list of the 30 most popular WordPress plug-ins. Not only do we tell you who/what the plugins are but give you links to the plug-ins, so if you have a WordPress installation you can install these plug-ins yourself. If you need help feel free to contact us at info@mojoe.net

I have used and do use the majority of every single one of these WordPress plug-ins for WordPress installation that we create for our customers. There are some very useful and helpful plug-ins that make your WordPress web site preform better and more efficiently to plug-ins that will better optimize and submit your site to search engines.

1.) All in One SEO Pack – WordPress SEO plug-in to automatically optimize your WordPress blog for Search Engines.

Active Versions: 25 | Downloads: 12,961,000 | Rating: 3.8 out of 5 stars | Link: All in One SEO Pack

2.) Akismet – Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog’s “Comments” admin Screen.

Active Versions: 8 | Downloads: 12, 253,538 | Rating: 4 out 5 stars | Link: Akismet

3.) Google XML Sitemaps – This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog or Word Press web site. With such sitemap, it’s much easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure fo your site and retrieve in more efficiently.

Active Versions: 11 | Downloads: 9,053,789 | Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars | Link: Google XML Sitemaps

4.) Contact Form 7 – Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contacts flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.

Active Versions: 24 | Downloads: 8,957,262 | Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars | Link: Contact Form 7

5.) NextGEN Gallery – It provides a powerful engine for uploading and managing galleries of images, with the ability to batch upload, import meta data, add/delete/re-arrange/sort images, edit thumbnails, group galleries into albums, and much more.

Active Versions: 22 | Downloads: 6,258,705 | Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars | Link: NextGEN Gallery

6.) WP Super Cache – This plug-in generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog or site. After a html file is generated your web server will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts.

Active Versions: 13 | Downloads: 3,913,716 | Rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars | Link: WP Super Cache

7.) Google Analytics for WordPress – Track your WordPress site easily and with lots of meta data: view per author & category, automatic tracking of outbound clicks and page views.

Active Versions: 13 | Downloads: 3,895,749 | Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars | Link: Google Analytics for WordPress

8.) WPtouch – WPtouch automatically transforms your WordPress web site for mobile devices complete with ajax loading articles and smooth effects when viewed from popular mobile web browsing devices like the iPhone, iPod touch, Android mobile phones, Blackberry OS6+ mobile devices, and more!

Active Versions: 18 | Downloads: 3,805,247 | Rating: 3.8 out of 5 stars | Link: WPtouch

9.) WordPress Importer – Import posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, tags and more from a WordPress export file.

Active Versions: 6 | Downloads: 3,549,379 | Rating: 3.2 out of 5 stars | Link: WordPress Importer

10.) Jetpack by WordPress – Jetpack is a WordPress plug-in that supercharges your self-hosted WordPress site or blog with awesome cloud power of WordPress.com.

Active Versions: 16 | Downloads: 3,384,705 | Rating: 3.8 out of 5 stars | Link: Jetpack by WordPress

11.) Fast Secure Contact Form – This plugin allows a webmaster to easily create and add contact forms to WordPress. The contact form will let the user send emails to a site’s admin, and also send a meeting request to talk over the phone or video. And administration panel is present, where the webmaster can create and preview unlimited forms.

Active Versions: 16 | Downloads: 3,062,540 | Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars | Link: Fast Secure Contact Form

12.) WP-PageNavi – This plugin provides the wp_pagenav() template tag which generates fancy pagination links.

Active Versions: 10 | Downloads: 3,137,808 | Rating: 4 out of 5 stars | Link: WP-PageNavi

13.) WordPress SEO by Yoast – Improve your WordPress SEO. Write better content and have a fully optimized WordPress site using the WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast.

Active Versions: 15 | Downloads: 2,849,862 | Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars | Link: WordPress SEO by Yoast

14.) Share Buttons by Lockerz / AddtoAny – The WordPress plugin to help share, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Google, Digg, Delicious, and well over 100 more sharing and social bookmarking sites.

Active Versions: 19 | Downloads: 2,391,274 | Rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars | Link: Share Buttons by Lockerz / AddtoAny

15.) WP e-Commerce – WP e-Commerce is a free WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin that lets customers buy your products, services and digital downloads online.

Active Versions: 24 | Downloads: 2,168,848 | Rating: 2.8 out of 5 stars | Link: WP e-Commerce

16.) Google Analyticator – Google Analyticator adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google Analytic’s logging on any WordPress blog. This eliminates the need to edit your template code to begin logging. Google Analyticator also includes several widgets for displaying Analytic’s data in the admin and on your blog.

Active Versions: 9 | Downloads: 22,071,028 | Rating: 3.6 out of 5 stars | Link: Google Analyticator

17.) Yet Another Related Posts Plugin – Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) gives you a list of posts and/or pages related to the current entry, introducing the reader to other relevant content on your site.

Active Versions: 21 | Downloads: 2,008,447| Rating: 3.7 out of 5 stars | Link: Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

18.) TinyMCE Advanced – This plugin add 16 plugins to TinyMICE: Advanced HR, Advanced Image, Advanced Link, Advanced List, Context Menu, Emotions ( Smiles), Date and Time, IESpell, Layer, Nonbreaking, Print, Search and Replace, Style, Table, Visual Characters and XHTML Extras.

Active Versions: 10 | Downloads: 1,938,183 | Rating: 3.8 out of 5 stars | Link: TinyMCF Advanced

19.) Sociable – After introducing Sociable Skyscraper, the ultimate advanced and feature-packed plugin for setting up a rating system on your WordPress blog. It is sort of banner that reminds your readers to spread the word. You can select and customize several features, such as test, color, and length in order to ensure your readers and their friends a great Sociable Experience.

Active Versions: 13 | Downloads: 1,884,805 | Rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars | Link: Sociable

20.) Really Simple CAPTCHA – Really Simple CAPTCHA does not work alone and is tended to work with other plugins. It is originally created for Contact Form 7; however, you can use it with your own plugin

Active Versions: 5 | Downloads: 1,938,183 | Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars | Link: CAPTCHA

21.) GTrans - Make your website available to the world using Google Translate.

Active Versions: 10 | Downloads: 1,643,512 | Rating: 3.8 out of 5 stars | Link: Google Translate

22.) WP to Twitter – WP to Twitter automatically posts a Tweet from your WordPress blog to Twitter using your URL shortening service to provide a link back your post from Twitter.

Active Versions: 23 | Downloads: 1,184,228 | Rating: 3.9 out of 5 stars | Link: WP to Twitter

23.) Broken Link Checker – This plugin will monitor your blog looking for broken links and let you know if any are found.

Active Versions: 12 | Downloads: 3,384,705 | Rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars | Link: Broken Link Checker

24.) AddThis – The AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget allows any visitor to bookmark and share your site easily with over 330 popular services.

Active Versions: 20 | Downloads: 1,118,777 | Rating: 3.4 out of 5 stars | Link: AddThis

25.) W3 Total Cache – Imporve site performance and user experience via caching browser, page, object, minify and content delivery network support.

Active Versions: 4 | Downloads: 1,371,650 | Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars | Link: W3 Total Cache

26.) BuddyPress – BuddyPress lets users sign-up and start creating profiles, posting messages, making connections, creating and interacting in groups, and much more.

Active Versions: 17 | Downloads: 1,283,508 | Rating: 3.9 out of 5 stars | Link: BuddyPress

27.) WP-DB-Backup – WP-DB-Backup allows you easily to backup your core WordPress database tables. You may also backup other tables in the same database.

Active Versions: 2 | Downloads: 1,492,535 | Rating: 3.7 out of 5 stars | Link: WP-DB-Backup

28.) Smart YouTube PRO – Smart YouTube is a professional WordPress Video plugin that allows you to easily insert videos/playlists into your post, comments and in your RSS feeds.

Active Versions: 17 | Downloads: 1,424,742 | Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars | Link: Smart YouTube Pro

29.) Redirection – Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 re-directions keep track of 404 errors, and generally tidy up any loose ends your site may have. This is particularly useful if you are migrating your pages from an old website, or are changing the directory of your WordPress installation.

Active Versions: 11 | Downloads: 1,157,384 | Rating: 3.8 out of 5 stars | Link: Redirection

30.) WP-Polls - WP-Polls is extremely customizable via templates and css styles and there are tons of options for you to choose to ensure that WP-Polls runs they way you wanted.

Active Versions: 7 | Downloads: 1,173,730 | Rating: 3.7 out of 5 stars | Link: WP-Polls

Tags: Greenville SC, Plugins, SC, Teach, Web Design, WordPress, WordPress Grenville
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WordPress Web Site – Iced for You

Friday, January 11th, 2013

Iced for You a new WordPress web site that we developed. What is Iced for You? Well, it provides customers high quality gourmet cupcake products made with love and the best ingredients, with customization options only limited by the imagination.

The Mission
Design a WordPress CMS site for Iced for You. Make the site a custom one-of-a-kind WordPress CMS design that complemented the logo, colors, and captured the creations of Iced for You. Make sure that the site could be maintained by the owner and proprietor Courtney Tessler.

The Goal
Our goal was to develop a web site that was not only easily maintainable by the owner and staff. Another goal of Mojoe.net‘s was to make sure that the design of the site represented the gourmet cake creations so the visiting customers would leave the site wanting a delicious tasting cupcake. This being a WordPress web site we not only had to set this site up but configure it as well.

The Work and Why We’re Proud of It
We are extremely proud of this web site and hungry after looking at it. We wanted a site that really showed off the cupcakes and with the photography that we provided and our design. We believe that we have accomplished the main goal of our customer to make her one-of-a-kind creations stand out on the site. The site has been being maintained by Courtney and she rarely if ever calls upon us to help her with the site.

If you would like more information on WordPress check out our CMS section.

Tags: CMS, Content Management Systems, Greenville, Greer, web site, WordPres
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WordPress Greenville SC

Tuesday, September 18th, 2012

WordPress Greenville
WordPress web sites in Greenville, South Carolina are becoming extremely popular over the last twelve months. As a development company in the Greenville area we have gone from doing 1 or 2 wordpress web site in and around the surrounding areas in greenville over the last several years to doing 2 or 3 wordpress web sites a month.

Over the last few months we have launched the following WordPress web sites: www.pedalchic.com, www.diamondlandscapingsc.com, www.campbellcranerental.net, www.icedforyou.com, www.alphafireandsafety.com, www.cashcarrental.com, www.thepalmettomortuary.com, www.mysolor.com, www.thepieratclemson.com, and www.thekempgroup.com

All of these WordPress web sites where created because the business or individual wanted a site that they could easily update and maintain. Another important key feature was the ability to expand the web site over time. They wanted to do this in several different ways some wanted to add more content to their site, some wanted to add more functions; such as, e-commerce, custom forms, membership enrollment and social plugins. Finally and of course the most important key feature/function the ability to BLOG. This function is built into WordPress and offers quite an abundant amount of control over your blog where as other content management systems do not offer the same ability. You can control the categories, tags, search engine optimization, comments or no comments, adding pictures, adding social information, and the list goes on and on, and on…..

Blogging is becoming the new way to communicate your ideas, thoughts, products and services in a constructive and non-formal way to get your knowledge across to the visitors of your web site. WordPress was founded as a blogging system initially and has evolved into a content management system with hundreds of thousand plugins that allow you to do all sorts of functions and interactions with your visitors.

Here are two WordPress web sites that we recently launched and we are quite proud of them. One is The Get In Shape Girl. Not only did we custom design the WordPress theme; we designed the logo and added in some very custom functionality.

www.thegetinshapegirl.com

The next site and a Greer WordPress web site is Iced. We designed the custom WordPress theme so that you would want to buy some cupcakes and they do make some of the most delicious cupcakes in the Greenville area.

www.icedforyou.com

If you would like more information about WordPress Greenville web sites please feel free to get in touch with us at 864-859-9848 or you can email us at info@mojoe.net

Tags: Blogging, Content Management Systems, South Carolina, Web Design Greenville, WordPress Greenville
Posted in CSS3, Greenville, Greenville Web Development, HTML5, Web Site Design, WordPress, WordPress | 1 Comment »

The 10 Best Web Site Background Pattern Sites

Monday, May 28th, 2012

Who does not like a great web site background pattern for their web site? I believe it can make the difference between an okay web site and a web site that has some class and style.There are hundreds of sites available on the web that show you how to make background patterns. There are even sites that will allow you to download the pre-made patterns that you can just drop in to Photoshop Presets folder. There are some classical background patterns that are used quite a lot; such as, TV line pattern, diagonal line pattern, and dotted pattern. These patterns have been over-used. I think if you are going to design a web site then an original background pattern is a must. There are definitely some exotic pattern creators out there as well. I personally like the subtle patterns they can be added to your Photoshop very easily and can be altered without much effort.

Background patterns for web sites can be that little extra design element that makes your site stand out from the rest. I have included some links to sites that I use for background patterns check them out below.

STRIPE GENERATOR (This is a generator that will make the patterns for you)

SUBTLE PATTERNS (This is one of my favorites, love how subtle the patterns are and they even have a plugin for WordPress)

COLOR LOVERS (This site not only has patterns, but color palettes as well and it is a site that allows you to create your own custom pattern)

DOTTER PATTERN (This site is a dotted background pattern generator, pretty useful if you are in a hurry and don’t want to do it yourself)

BG PATTERN CREATOR (This site allows you to basically create your pattern on the site, then you can download the image)

BRUSHEEZY PATTERNS (This site as a wide variety of downloadable images for Patterns everything from Wood Background to Snowflake Patterns)

DIN PATTERNS (You want to talk about Exotic Pattern Creation this site definitely fits that description but it has some class and style in the patterns)

BG MAKER (Wow, now this site is the KING of Patterns over 1685 Pages for a total of 246,633 Patterns as of this Post May 2012. This site not only has this many patterns but also allows to make your own pattern on the site. Another Personal Favorite)

TARTAN DESIGNER (Now, if you’re feeling a little scottish and want a tartan for your web site background then this is the web site for you. As of May 2012 the site has over 123 pages with a total of 615 Tartan designs. You can also make your own custom tartan as well)

ALICE GRAFIXX (Once again this site has plenty to look at just like the others over 64 pages for a current total of 1024 pattern backgrounds as of May 2012.)

In conclusion, no matter the design, style, color, or feel of web site you are going for the 10web sites above offer a wide-variety of patterns and textures. Please feel free to post a comment or suggest another pattern site for this post. Stay connected till next week, when we talk about color and give you some very useful links that every designer should have when choosing a color palette.

Tags: Background Patterns, Pattern Generators, Subtle Patterns
Posted in Design, Web Background Patterns, Web Site Design, WordPress | 2 Comments »

WordPress Tips and Plugins

Wednesday, April 25th, 2012

Alright WordPress User’s

Here are the top 5 WordPress Plugins that we recommend:

Each one of these plugins can be of great benefit to your blog or WordPress web site.

Google Analytics for WordPress
We have found that the Google Analytics for WordPress plugin integrates easily with most versions of WordPress. Simple to setup as well, all you need to do is register your site with Google Analytics and you will be issued a UA-XXXXXXX-X number you then type this number into the plugin and authorize it and your done. You now have custom statistical information about your web site. It can take several days for the information to become available at your Gooogle Analytics account.

Goolge XML Sitemaps
Another plugin that works effectively and is easy to install in most WordPress versions; this will not only create your XML sitemap, but it will also submit your XML site map to Bing, Ask, and Google. In addition it will also create your robots.txt file. This is a great method for updating the search engines about your web site or blog and the changes that you make.

JetPack by WordPress
This plugin is kind of what you would call in All-In-One Plugin. It does quite a few different things but it is built all into one plugin which makes management of those features quite easy to control. It allows social connections with Facebook, Twitter, and so on with all of your post or pages. Jetpack also has stats all it own, you can configure a backup of your web site. You can use different widgets in-conjunction with the plugin so you can post your twitter stream, or have people to subscrive

WordPress Backup to Dropbox
We would not install or use a WordPress web site or blog for a customer without having this plugin installed. It makes a full and complete copy of your site and all of its files. You can schedule the backup for the day of the week and the time and how often the backup occurs. It also stores a copy of your entire database as well. This is a must have utility for anyone wanting to use WordPress.

WordPress SEO
This is an self contained search engine optimization and registration plugin that allows you to tie in titles, meta-descriptions, meta-keywords, as well as submit your XML sitemap, and will assist you with techniques for optimizing your blog post. NOTE: Please be careful when using these plugin in conjunction with each plugin above. Some of the plugins do the exact same task and other ones only do a portion.

If you would like further information or would like to discuss your web site or web application. You can schedule a Free consultation with Mojoe.net. Please do not hesitate to call us at 864-859-9848 or you can visit our home page and fill out the form. Next Week we will discuss some WordPress Tips.

Tags: Dropbox, Google Analytics, Google XXML Sitemaps, JetPack, Yoast
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Follow up to Lunch and Learn with Greenville Marketing Lab – Blogging, SEO, and Learning Greenville, SC

Thursday, April 12th, 2012

‎Deveren Werne, Jay Spivey and Kamran Popkin offered great advise on blogging and using digital magazines at yesterday’s Lunch & Learn! Thanks!!

Digital Magazine & Blogging Lunch and Learn Yesterday

www.greenvillemarketinglab.com

Thanks to all who attended and presented at our Lunch & Learn at Ford’s Oyster House! I’m following the advice of Kamran Popkin, one of our speakers, who recommended blogging each morning while the coffee is brewing. Make blogging a habit, find your voice! Looking forward to our upcoming You Tub…

Useful links for Search Engine Optimization

Use Google Keyword Tool to create check your keywords and see how popular they are.
Use Web Site Grader to analyze your site; its a free tool and if you search you can find other ones for analyzing your site
Check Link Popularity – If you are being linked to or are linking to other companies check their page rank to see how popular their site may be. The higher the page rank the potential for more of that traffic to visit your web site. You can check your page rank at Google Page Rank
Add Google Analytic s or Re-Invigorate - At Mojoe we use both of these tools Google is free and re-invigorate it $10.00 dollars a month. We do this so we can have cross comparison of analytical data for your web site.
SEO by Yoast This is a great plugin for WordPress
You can also check out one of our Blog posts that gives you a Step by Step checklist when designing and developing a web site

If you would like additional information on designing and developing your web site please check out our Blog.

Tags: Blogging, Digital Magazine, Greenville, Search Engine Registration
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Blogging, Digital Online Magazines and Improving Your SEO at Greenville Marketing Lab’s April 11 Lunch & Learn

Monday, April 9th, 2012

Greenville Marketing Lab will review the importance of blogging and how digital online magazines are helping to improve your company’s SEO. Our guest panelists will share their passions for blogging, the various blogging platforms available, cool blogging apps for your smart phones, and the reasons you need to start blogging. We will also learn how the world of publishing is dramatically changing with online, digital magazines gaining popularity and traction in the market place.

Our guest panel includes Kamran Popkin (creative director at Swag Club), Deveren Werne (president of Mojoe.net. and partner in Liquid Video Technologies) and Jay Spivey (founder, publisher and editor of Fete Magazine Greenville). A brief bio of each follows:

Jay Spivey collaborated with several friends and founded Fete Magazine, a multimedia celebration of Greenville. An interactive monthly online magazine, Fete covers the art, music,social scene (and much more!) in Greenville using high quality videos and photographs, in addition to the written word. Take a look at this month’s issue http://emag.fetegreenville.com/. Jay and his team have brought a truly unique product to Greenville with Fete!

Fete Magazine founder, publisher and editor, Jay Spivey

Jay Spivey, founder, pubisher and editor of Fete Magazine

Deveren Werne is a man of many talents, and one is blogging! He even has blogging apps on his phone so he can post whenever and wherever he is! Deveren is an owner and partner with Liquid Video Technologies and president and founder of http://www.mojoe.net/ . Deveren is our go-to guy for websites, and he is passionate about great photography, too! He understands the impact that images and blogs have in helping the search engines find your firm first!

Deveren Werne, partner in Liquid Video Technologies and president of Mojoe.Net

Deveren Werne with his wife, Jamie and partner in Liquid Video Technologies, Shawn Parcell

Kamran Popkin believes that swag is more than just a koozy with your logo printed on it. Swag Club, the promotional products firm founded by Kamran, is defined as “a mysterious and uniquely creative company” that takes the time to discover what your company message really is, and provide meaningful and creative methods to share the message. Kamran is a prolific writer and blogger; check out his Swag Club blog on tumblr at http://swagc.tumblr.com/. You will like what you read!

Swag Club's Creative Director, Kamran Popkin

Kamran Popkin, creative director at Swag Club

The practice of blogging is challenging for some…it is certainly a time commitment between thinking about topics, drafting, editing, and finally, publishing. There are several tips that our presenters will share so that the world of blogging becomes second nature, and you begin to feel comfortable and eager to write for your company, helping to improve SEO.

Join us at Ford’s Oyster House and Cajun Kitchen, 631 South Main Street, downtown Greenville, SC 29601 at 11:30 to Lunch & Learn with Greenville Marketing Lab and our cool panel! Sign up http://www.meetup.com/Greenville-SEO-and-Internet-Marketing-for-Local-Businesses/ here!

Greenville Marketing Lab partners, Wendy Lynam and Martha Winebarger, are passionate about helping local businesses develop successful and innovative strategies to help build their brand and improve their sales and profitability objectives. Their shared belief of “bringing online and offline – face to face locally” is the cornerstone to their success.

Greenville Marketing Lab partners, Martha Winebarger and Wendy Lynam on a field trip

Tags: Blogging
Posted in Greenville Web Development, Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Registration, Web Site Design, WordPress | 1 Comment »

Pedal Chic of Greenville Web Design choose Mojoe.net

Wednesday, March 21st, 2012

Greenville Web Design Company Mojoe.net , meets with Robin Belyina of Pedal Chic…

Meeting with Wendy Lynam of Greenville Marketing Lab and Robin Bylenga at Pedal Chic in Greenville, South Carolina. Pedal Chic is a women’s specific bike shop and active wear boutique; Mojoe.net has been chosen as the web design company for Pedal Chic. We are very excited about this project and are looking forward to developing a site that is not only unique and chic, but having a site that is focused on showcasing all of the activewear for women and their bicycles. We will be posting their new design soon. So be sure to check back often.

Update:
We have just completed the wireframe and site architecture for Pedal Chic. We are currently working on the mood board.

You can check out the wireframe below for Pedal Chic of Greenville, South Carolina

Update:
Here is the Mood Board that we completed for Pedal Chic of Greenville, South Carolina

Update:
Check out the home page web design for Pedal Chic Greenville SC

You can check the site out at www.pedalchic.com. We not only designed the wireframe, site architecture, mood board and concept; we developed the entire site into a custom wordpress theme.

We did this because the customer has a strong familiarity with WordPress and the SEO tools and optimization that can be employed make it extremely easy to integrate the necessary tools for getting your site listed in the search engines.

Tags: ecommerce, Web Design, Word Press
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Whats your Function Junction | Web Design Greenville, SC

Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

So is it okay to have a web site that may look great but does not work?

Well, my answer as a designer and developer would actually surprise most people. YES, it is okay to have a great design with no function, but for your client it is probably a big fat NO. Your web site should not only look amazing and be original; it should also function correctly and perform call to action to get your clients their desired results. There are great deal of developers out in the web community that are not designers and vice-a-versa.

We recently, had a client decide to use another web development company and the design of the site is nice. Unfortunately for our client the web development company was not experienced with shopping carts, so even though they have a nice looking site. The clients customers can no longer order online and the site basically no longer works. So what should you do if you experience this issue.

Ask questions, Ask questions, Ask questions, and educate yourself for the benefit of your company and its web site. Now, I am sure you are wondering what questions to ask? Well, here is a small list of questions that should help inform you if the company that you are about to work with is capable of performing not only the design but also the functions to your web site.

Questions to Ask:

Question: How long have you been developing web site?
Answer: If the answer with 1 year or we are just starting out, this can be a potential red flag if you are looking for a web site to do specific actions that may be complicated.

Question: Who is your developer/programmer?
Answer: We outsource our development to India, or we know a guy. RUN, the reason is very simple. The person you are talking to most likely has no knowledge of the programming for a website and if this person is your point of contact then transferring your idea to them and then to someone else and so on. Well, you get the idea, your function will get lost in translation both literally and figuratively.

Question: What programming language do you use?
Answer: The answer should be immediate and they should be able to show you examples. If not then this is another red flag.

Question: Do you comment all of your code?
Answer: If they say no, or unfamiliar with what comment your code means then you need to find the nearest exit and leave the building. Commenting code is a practice that all developers should do when coding a web site. It is basically cliff notes to each section of code on the web site. The reason this is important is because the comments will assist another web developer if the site has to be moved or another web developer has to take over the project.

Question: We would like a self contained web site that we manage ourselves (CMS), can you develop something like that?
Answer: Once again the answer should be yes. But they should start out by evaluating your project and seeing if you would be better served with having an out of the box solution; such as, WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, or DNN. The reason being that if they develop something that only they understand then you are stuck with them and can never move your site. Having a foundation in one of frameworks mentioned before will make your site easier to move and most of these frameworks have a large selection of plugins to quickly add function to your web site. Now, there are some cases where custom programming is warranted and is very necessary, but remember if the programmer comments there code and also the web company agrees the coding belongs to you then there is no problem. Custom programming can be very beneficial in the development of your web site. This answer actually leads us into our next question

Question: Do you write code from scratch?
Answer: The answer should be yes. If it is no or they are unsure then you have an issue. Having a web company that can actually write code from scratch especially for a complicated and very involved web site is extremely important and can be critical to the operation of your web site. Your site need to have the ability to grow and expand over time…as I have said before, ” A web site is a ever evolving and growing means of communication.”

Remember, interview your potential web development company, spend time with them, ask questions, make a plan, and be sure to ask for examples.

I will be writing some more in-depth blog post that will deal with Planning, Development, Design and Maintenance so please be sure to check back often and feel free to contact me at 864-859-9848 or you can email me at dwerne@mojoe.net

Thank you,

Deveren Werne - Developer, Designer – Lover of the Web.

Web Design Greenville

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