Monthly Archives: June 2011

The WordPress Theme ‘Roots’

By admin | Published: June 30, 2011

Today I thought I’d highlight the WordPress theme Roots that was created by Blue Riot’s own Hyper-Textologist, Ben Word. Ben has worked with WordPress since 2004 and created Roots based on the industry standard HTML5 Boilerplate, BluePrint CSS (960.gs) and Starkers and the result is nothing short of Awesome. The theme allows WordPress theme developers to create incredibly designed brochure sites and blogs with ease, and in record time. What is the Roots Theme? The Roots theme comes packed with additional features that won’t be found in other themes [...]

Posted in Design / User Experience, Open Source Development, Web Development, WordPress Development | Tagged custom wordpress theme, roots theme, wordpress website | Leave a comment

5 of the Best WordPress Image Gallery Plug-Ins

By admin | Published: June 29, 2011

Nothing brings attention to your WordPress site or blog more than a visually stunning photo slideshow gallery. With an interactive gallery, your visitors will have more of a reason to stick around. And, as a business interested in marketing to those individuals, that’s exactly what you want. While there are many ways to host photos on your WordPress site, one of the easiest is to use a WordPress gallery plug-in. To create the kinds of slideshows that attract and retain visitors, try these five WordPress image gallery plug-ins that are [...]

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Content Marketing 101: Seven Tips for Content Marketing Domination

By admin | Published: June 23, 2011

The Internet has changed the marketing and sales game and that means the old ways of doing things are no longer effective. You can’t just blast out advertisements to get in prospects’ and customers’ faces like you could in the ‘old days’ of marketing and advertising. Instead, these days you need to bring the customers to you and one of the most effective ways to do that is through content marketing. To help you build content marketing campaigns that boost traffic, sales and reputation, here are seven tips that you [...]

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5 Reasons Why You Should Be Blogging

By admin | Published: June 20, 2011

Blogging is one of the most effective ways to reach out to your target audience, and many businesses have already figured that out. There are dozens if not thousands of blogs online these days, as everyone wants to express their own viewpoints regarding their particular expertise. But, as a business owner, you may feel that your viewpoint isn’t important enough to be heard amidst all the blogs that can be found online. Or maybe you feel that there must be a blogger out there who shares your viewpoints, and they [...]

Posted in SEO / PPC, WordPress Development | Tagged blogging for seo, googles panda update, quality content, wordpress blog | Leave a comment

Denver Web Design in 5 Steps

By admin | Published: June 14, 2011

Many of our clients started out very interested in our services, but they hesitated to hire us at first because they weren’t quite sure what our Denver web design team could do for them. We are happy to answer any communications that come our way, so we are able to alleviate the concerns of many of our clients who ask questions of this sort. But some clients never take the time to send out an email or communication asking those questions in the first place. So, we’ve put together this [...]

Posted in Brand Development, Design / User Experience, Ecommerce | Tagged denver web design, design website, web design process, website seo | Leave a comment

Daily/Weekly Habits to Successfully Manage Your WordPress Site

By admin | Published: June 9, 2011

Let’s say you’ve recently hired Denver WordPress developers to create a killer website that does everything you want it to. Only, you’ve decided to host and maintain that site yourself. What habits should you get into? What processes should you automate? Which ones should you do on a regular basis? Don’t worry, we’re going to help you create a solid plan that will have your WordPress site well-maintained and running like a finely tuned machine. Plug-Ins While setting daily and weekly to-do lists are helpful, it’s even more so when [...]

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Five Companies That Are Tearing It Up On Facebook

By admin | Published: June 7, 2011

Have you created your business’s Facebook page yet? If so, have you done well? If not, you may be getting a little discouraged, and rightly so. It’s not easy to merge social networking and business. People these days have a natural aversion to being sold on Facebook and Twitter. The rule of social marketing is that the customer must come to you. Attraction marketing is where it’s at. You can’t be the pushy salesperson anymore and expect to make it. But don’t let social marketing get you down. It is [...]

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15 Reasons Why Social Media Marketing is Worth It

By admin | Published: June 1, 2011

Remember a few years ago when MySpace first hit the scene? How amazing was it to be able to create your own little space on the web? At first they kept it simple. You could add photos and information about you and soon the site went crazy and allowed people to completely personalize their own little homes on the web with decals and songs and backgrounds and much more. Social networking has sure changed since then. Six years ago, MySpace was where it was at. But these days if you [...]