Why page templates are key to executing your website strategy

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“A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain.” This Arabian proverb gets at the heart of what makes a successful website strategy: execution! Many clients make promises to themselves that they probably can’t keep: Even though I normally update my site about once a month, now I’m going to write a blog article every day Our product descriptions are all out of date, but with this new site I’m going to triple my online inventory My marketing team is already stretched, but now they will have to manage a new [...]

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Going Digital with a Historic Beverage Industry Publication

The Beverage Journal

The Beverage Journal is the official trade magazine of the licensed beverage industries in Connecticut and Rhode Island. It has provided brand and price listings, news, and promotions for industry professionals and beverage licensees since 1949. They came to Blue Riot Labs with a nascent digital strategy, seeking to get out ahead of their competitors in delivering value to their community online. Who says print people can’t go digital? See what we came up with…

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“Coming to America” – Hitron turns to BRL to make a splash in America

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Hitron Technologies provides over one million DOCSIS products annually around the world. With a world class manufacturing campus in Suzhou, China and regional offices in Shenzhen (China), Windisch (Switzerland), and Amsterdam (Netherlands), they chose our mile high city for making their entrance into the American audience. Their previous site was a splashy affair better suited for the Asian market; we gave them a clean site that allowed their products to be the center of attention. Check out the before and after screenshots…

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What’s the Chemical Composition of SEO Success?

Clients often ask which are the most important factors for ranking well in Google or Bing search results, and how to optimize their site (search engine optimization) to create the best chance for search success. Being “lab rats” ourselves, I was delighted to see SearchEngineLand.com put together a “Periodic Table of SEO Ranking Factors.” There is an art to SEO, but here’s the science: View the full size:

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Modern Manufacturing Miracle – RLE is live!

Leak Detector - RLE Technologies - Water Leak Detection Equipment

Ok, so maybe “miracle” is overstating it, but what else do you call what we achieved for RLE Technologies website? Designed a site that tied together products, applications and resources for an intuitive and informative user experience Google Adwords Pay-Per-Click: Cost Per Click down 23% while simultaneously raising Click Through Rate 1900% (nope, not a typo) Content management system that allows them to efficiently maintain their sizable product catalog and resources database 31 keywords in the top 30 of Google and rising Creating custom post types specific for their needs, along [...]

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How to Find a Reputable Web Developer

The quality of your web presence can make or break your business in today’s digital age. The days of the do-it-yourself website are over. These days, customers want a professional look and feel or else they’ll take their business elsewhere. Customers aren’t going to trust a website that doesn’t look professional and that’s hard to navigate. That’s why you need a web developer , but you need one that comes highly recommended. Here are six reasons you’ll only want to consider hiring a Denver web developer with a rock-solid reputation. [...]

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The future is here. EconoManey is live.

EconoManey

What do you do when a collection of crazy-brilliant economic futurists need a website? Well, you add: 70ml of pure user interface 175ml of refined WordPress integration 45ml of videos, blog posts, and more Then you pile the mixture into the BRL beaker, spin it at the speed of light, and you get: an uber-smart, geeky-cool site of smart people we are still trying to understand. It will come (we hope). Check the site out, the latest web design and development creation from the BRL WordPress lab.

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Other Uses for WordPress You May Not Be Aware Of

wordpress more then just a cms

If you’ve been keeping up with our blog, you must know by now just how useful WordPress can be. As a CMS (content management system), it offers a simple user interface, it’s easy to use, it’s completely customizable and it allows you to get your business website and blog up quickly without requiring too much technological expertise. But did you know that you can use WordPress for other things, too? That’s right, WordPress is so diverse that you can literally make it into anything you want. In fact, here are [...]

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The WordPress Theme ‘Roots’

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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 [...]

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Denver App Developers: How to Automate and Extend Key Business Processes

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Denver is the most populated city in Colorado and that means that now, more than ever, your company should be Denver web marketing like crazy in order to garner as much of the market share as possible. The best way to do this is to automate and extend your key business practices with Denver web application development.  The right team of Denver Apps developers will give your company the technological makeover it desperately needs to run smoother and so that it can pull ahead of your competition. But you can’t [...]

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