At Webstix, we've been doing website design since 2001. We've seen a lot of changes during that time (and before, of course - we've been in the game since 1994). We have also worked with a lot of clients during that time - easily 1000 clients or more if you include all of our website […]
Webstix Breaks the PageSpeed Barrier Google's PageSpeed tool is all about the User Experience (UX). When you think like Google, you see how they want to deliver the best website results. That means websites need to load quickly on desktop/laptop and mobile devices (smartphones, tablets, phablets). It's a part of the equation. As website designers, […]
The Devil's in the Details! I had a client today submit a design to us. Our job with this project is to take a pre-made design and code it for a Magento e-commerce website. They had a designer from another website firm create the design (for certain reasons) and I noticed some problems. There were […]
Spam in Your Website Statistics Spam is everywhere it seems. I kind of grew up eating Spam - we had it once every week or two at home with some fried potatoes and cream corn. It was delicious and is still a good meal to have once in a while (even though it's not that […]
The More You Put In, The More You Get Out! When you're running an e-commerce website, you're entering yourself in an arena full of competition. You're playing with the big boys now. If you realize that, then you'll also realize that you have to put work into your e-commerce website if you want to keep […]
Your Website Needs to Work on Smart Phones This day finally got here. The first prediction was that mobile would overtake desktop users last year but it's now May 2015 and Google is saying that more searches come from mobile devices: It’s Official: Google Says More Searches Now On Mobile Than On Desktop (searchengineland.com) Company […]
How to Choose the Right Website Design Company With Google being more strict about design now, I found this article that they posted on some tips on picking the right website design company: What should I think about when working with a developer? (google.com) 1. Ask to see your developer’s references and portfolio of mobile […]
Webstix.Rocks Says It All! Check out our new website for client testimonials: https://webstix.rocks/ Yes, that's a ".rocks" domain name that you can get now. There are a lot of specialty domain name extensions available and here's our way of showing you what can be done with one of them. The ".rocks" domain name is probably […]
Got a Mobile Ready Website? You Rock! Ok, so let's stop talking about how websites that aren't mobile responsive are going to get ranked lower. It seems like we've been talking about that for 2 years now. We've driven that point home. It's time to talk about the websites that are doing it right. Now […]
Website Traffic Increases Dramatically! We have a client that we created a new website for last year. Their traffic from their old site was very low - probably 30 page views a day. They're a local service company, so they're not obviously getting national traffic but they have a business to business service that most […]
